Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

Chicago suburbs mostly.

 

Ya'll still wanna live in this place?

 

I meant, like, everything else too though. US doesn't seem nearly as great as it thinks it is.

 

Glasgow? Oh, that's different. I don't think I'd be on the bus in the first place if it was Glasgow.

 

Don't get me wrong. Glasgow is great! I've loved Glasgow since the first minute I arrived, and I've never lost that love. Glasgow people are inherently VERY kind and helpful. That's why this situation is a bit weird.

The bus service in Greater Glasgow is very good as well—although like everything else, it was better before the buses got privatised by Margaret Thatcher and the cherrypicking started. It's still a free service to people over 60 with a bus pass. Yep. In Scotland, anyway, I can ride buses anywhere in Scotland just using the pass.

I wouldn't choose any other city to live near—or in.

It's just that I've noticed this seat-grabbing trend happening, and I'm not sure if it's localised or more widespread. It's just that it wasn't happening, say, 10 years ago. Or not so you'd notice. Somehow, the young folks now think this is okay?

I have to say, I'm 70, and lucky that so far I don't need a front seat. I never sit in one. But I am conscious of the fact that sooner or later I WILL probably be infirm and need a bit of extra TLC. It would be hugely embarrassing to have to ask one of these young people to give up their seat if I needed it, although they probably would. But I shouldn't be forced to ask.

I have also seen youngish mothers allowing their children to grab the front seats, and doing nothing to stop them. (I'm not talking mothers pushing prams ...which is a different thing. They do get a spot at the front.) This is fine, as long as there aren't any infirm people getting on, but as SOON as any appear, the kids should immediately move back. If the mothers don't teach them to be mindful and kind to others, who will?

 

Same generally speaking in London too.
You do have people who will sit in them anyway, but 9 times out of 10 they give them up if someone else needs them.

 

For a non-Commonwealth person over 35, emigration isn't as easy as one might think.

 

Babies.

"Aww, isn't it so cute?"

"No. Its a screaming wallet parasite"

 

Yep.

 

Apart from the sigh I don't really get what you're saying. Please educate a non-native english speaker.

 

Yeah...

All those people following them in the same bus... It must have a hidden meaning with hidden agendas...

 

"Oh holy mother of god! What sort of sorcery is this?!"

 

The buses in the town I live in has seats in front that are intended for the use of the infirm and unsteady.

 

So do most the busses, monorail systems, subways, etc, around the country and especially in major cities. We aren't in the dark ages.

 

Where those systems are present. I looked up directions from where I was staying a few times back to where a buddy of mine is buried. By car, 46 minutes. Walking, nine and a half hours. Public transportation: Eight and a half hours, including a journey to downtown Chicago. That was then, now Google doesn't even have a suggestion for public transportation.

Yeah, Chicago is still in the dark ages.

 

I'm a bit confused on how that happened. From where to where is really the question, and also when. Chicago has just about everything as far as public transportation, and has for quite sometime. I don't doubt this happened to you, seeing as these messes of course occur, but it's a bit out of the ordinary. And of course, it is always slow.

 

This is the burbs, all single family homes.

 

Postcode lottery.
I'm classed as lucky because I have a 4 hourly bus to the nearest town.
Ireland is similar to the US in that regard. Public transport is only in the very dense towns and cities. My local bus runs the width of the country from Sligo to Dublin and back again. 2hr 40 mins to drive yourself according to google. But add an extra hour or more if you're on the bus, as you go through all the little towns and villages en route, have a rest stop at Longford and then traffic etc.

Ireland may be rolling out broadband to the rural areas currently, but that doesn't mean they have frequent or timely transport.

 

Can I complain about my mother again?

So I shipped 5 boxes to England and I've got one more box, plus my guitar and stuff that we'll take if we have to fetch Balt by car.

Rest of my things I've sold, given away or given to my mother to sell at my parents second hand-place.

...now she went through all the things I decided to sell and put at least half of it in a new "things to bring to England if we go by car"-box. Things I've actively decided to get rid off! I haven't used those fancy plates the 10+ years I had them... and the same goes for the salads bowl (that at least is my style).

So now I'll just have more shit to bring over to try to get rid of in England instead. Joy.

And no - I don't want to save my old toys. For the 3114th time, we're not having kids... there's no reason for me to store boxes of toys where I live. Just stop being so fucking attached to every single thing

End of rant - I think.