sometimes I have good days
17 Feb
On the tube I’m your regular old grumpy bum. I have an urge to staple things to people’s heads when they:
- don’t get their Oyster card out before they get to the barriers
- don’t know how to touch in and out properly
- stand in front of the barriers for no good reason
- don’t move down inside the carriage
- wear a backpack on their back/wear their massive handbag on their shoulder
- during rush hour
- knock me into the gap (it’s happened before)…
The list goes on.
And yet today I found myself being nice to someone.
It’s half-term, the time when I am at my grumpiest on the tube because I just don’t understand why families insist on travelling during peak time when I just want to get home. As I started to watch Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on my iPod Touch I noticed a little person peering rounding a pole at my iPod. So I gave him an earphone and tilted the screen so he could watch with me. It only lasted a stop before he had to get off with his family but it was still my little touch of niceness in an otherwise grumpy world where you don’t talk to strangers.
