Where has respecting your elders, or quite frankly not being a nuisance to the general public gone?
Today on the bus home I witnessed a somewhat rowdy, bogan 20-something year old step on. Besides that, he also had a beer in his pants. Legitimately, he pulled out right out of the middle front :/ I was aware that drinking was prohibited on buses, let alone alcohol.
Apart from the fact that he was dressed far from classy, or even presentably, he was just acting completely impolitely.
With a bus full of people he proceeded to talk loudly in his drunken haze and before I knew it, he was blaring out music on his phone. And beside that being completely disrespectful and totally unmindful of others, there were so many crude and inappropriate words in his songs. It's quite simple really. If you forget your headphones, your give up the right to listen to music. Or perhaps he had headphones all along and decided to succumb us all to the atrocity, or maybe he had forgotten how to even use headphones in his state.
Anyhow, understandably an older man complained about the noise and asked him to turn it down. Of course, just like it would be expected of such a person he began verbally abusing and practically threatening him.
But what shocked me the most was that the bus driver helper (I suppose he was teaching the bus driver all the essentials), this bus driver helper did absolutely nothing to help the situation (although he has authority) and tell the bad-mannered man to be quiet and stop being irritating to all. In fact, after all the havoc, the rude man asked to turn the bus radio on, however he quite simply replied with, 'Sorry, I'm getting off in three stops". WHAT?!
Furthermore, once the older man had stepped off the bus, this helper man approached the drunk one although he could have just stood quietly like the rest of us were doing, but no. Here I was thinking he finally found some sense and was going to tell him off and ask him not to cause a further ruckus, alas he did not ! Instead, he talked to the man about how ridiculous the old man was for telling him off. I'm sorry but I hardly think that words such as c**t etc, are appropriate on public transport for all to hear.
If I wasn't just a girl with copious amounts of cutlery in my bag, music in my ears and a tattered book in my lap, then I would have most definitely spoken up !
I also became aware today that I need to correct a personal flaw of mine. I tend to overly stereotype people and treat them accordingly (in my head, I'm not flat out rude to strangers), however after today's events and their reactions thereby, I was reminded that people are not what they first seem.
au revoir. xo
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