sometimes I have good days
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.
17 February 2010