OAP Rant

OAP Rant

Right, i'm all for respecting my elders. but it fucking takes the fucking biscuit when even a shred of respect isnt returned. right - let the story unfold:

the scenario unfolds on a metro journey into town, i take the double seats over from the single one next to the door and continue listning to that catteneo set thats just been posted earlier this week. Charvers get on a jarrow - little bit noisy lairyness but no agro which i was thankful of. get's to pelaw with the carriage not that full at all, 2 women of around 60 odd get on and look at me in an expectant way, i look back - not really sure on how to react to such a situation, i take my headphones out and this little old lady coughs slightly and exclaims "come on son respect your elders" BEARING IN MIND THE SINGLE SEAT OVER FROM ME, LET ALONE THE ONE NEXT TO ME WAS FREE.

2 old people + 2 Empty and close seats = Happy Old people - obviously not the case

to her dismay i pointed this out, not in any rude, horrible (but nevertheless slightly unneccesarily patronising) way. they sit down and glare at me, after felling i gave in and asked what the problem was. dear me i wasnt really expecting this on such a simple metro journey;

"Me and my friend are on our way to whitely bay [i'm sure her friend was hard of hearing] was expecting to have quite a nice metro journy round and have a nice day, only for it to be ruined by a silly boy listning to drug music [hernan catteneo [[wtf?!] and not respecting his elders by not giving up his seat, that is why we are upset [UPSET! SHUT UP]"

*cont*


the following is the only circumstance in my life in which charvers have served some kind of useful purpose.

instead of me having to feel like shite by explaining why they are the most arrogant old people in tyne and wear in front of about 30+ people on a metro carriage, they almost acted like an off site or even out of body conscience who belittled these old people (or possibly angered them even more for the poor victims if i left).

anyways - the charvers behind overheard this womans rendition of making me feel like an idiot, afterwards he said

"whey yeez got on and there was them seats spare and yee baysikally wanted em te moove fer nee reason like, and ahh cannit even heeah his music like - a though old people were supposed to be deef anyway [hew]"

to the joyus laughter of about 4 charv's and watching the man in a suit over from us guiltily laughing into his paper - they actually got off at the station after! after the radgie told me those "gannies were propa off there heads" and i was totally right - i took that as a given and walked off the metro with a smile on my face.

just to add, i'm not disrespectful - i've just got common sense.

also after about 5 minutes deliberation i came to the conclusion that they smelled like salty lemons - marinated in TCP, thats actually as close of a description as possible.

ho shurrup you - i was actually cowering at one point!

the point was, really, is that they tried to bully me to move - when there was seats CLOSER to them when they came on the metro.

imagine you going up to someone random on a metro and going "thats my seat mate"

well not quite like that, but thereabouts

eh i was outnumbered! there was a radius of 8 empty seats around me!