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boswell

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  1. Just wanted to give a little 'hurrah' for HonaloochieB. Sometimes I wonder whether the desire to prove the strength of their own wit overpowers people's ability to restrain themselves from mining a source of, admittedly, comedy gold in recognition that for the person involved it was a very unpleasant experience which they didn't take lightly and which, out of respect, perhaps we shouldn't either.
  2. I've sent it off so we'll see what happens. I admit I think I do tend to be a bit on the wimpy side when it comes to walking places by myself at night but having known people who've been mugged (some of them multiple times - myself once at gun point and once at 'knife point') in all the areas surrounding here walking back all the way hampered with a broken bike isn't something I think I'd risk at that time of night.
  3. Just to say that I'm going to write a complaint letter today and send it off and I'll let you know the outcome. Also, a few stops later the bus driver let on quite a strange character who I'm assuming was a friend of his without paying. Everyone told me I should put it in my complaint but I'm not sure it's relevant, maybe a bit vindictive? It was a nice feeling though that so many people were actually concerned and willing to help each other out. I think my main issue with this was his complete lack of compassion. I'd think it was a pretty terrible thing to do anyway but if someone was really scared about losing their job so said that they couldn't but clearly felt bad about saying no, it would make it more understandable. This guy didn't even give the girl a second thought, it was as though he couldn't even see her and the worried/scared state she was in - only the fact that she had a bike. In terms of whether she could have walked home - I have to say there's no way I'd walk all that way through some not great neighbourhoods that late at night by myself. Also, a very small irrational part of me was kind of hoping when I checked back today that she might have seen this and replied to say she got home ok!
  4. I'm afraid I have no-one else to rant at as it's gone 2am so I'm using the forum to vent my anger. I've just got off the 176 from Charing Cross where at one point (at about 1.40am) we stopped at a bus stop where there was a late teens/early 20s girl in floods of tears - the chain on her bike had broken, she had no lock so couldn't leave it and she had no money or anyway to get home to Forest Hill. She'd been stranded for an hour and had spoken to a police officer who had said to explain the situation to a bus driver and that it would be OK to take it on a bus. Everyone at the front of the bus offered to pay her fare and to hold the bike out of the way on the luggage storage area but the bus driver point blank refused, closing the doors on her, and shouting in my face that it was 'against the rules' when I had an argument with him. I understand why the bus companies would have a general rule disallowing bikes and that this guy was worried about getting in trouble but what amazed me most was, not only did he not seem to realise this was extenuating circumstances, he also showed no compassion whatsoever - not even a 'sorry but I can't'. He simply drove off leaving a young girl stranded in the middle of the night. There was someone trying to help her at the bus stop but I really wish I'd got off the bus to help her, it was all over so quickly and he drove off before I really thought through what was happening. Feel quite a bit of guilt now and wish I knew what happened to her. So just in case she reads this forum - hope you got home safely, and I've written down his number to make a complaint (from the small blonde in the blue coat).
  5. Why is it OK to refer very specifically to someone so that everyone knows who they are as long as they are attributed a nickname, but not to refer to their real name? I'm not sure about this myself, I know perhaps you could then google them or something whilst 'The Whistler' woouldn't have quite the same results. Don't know if I'm being a bit thick and missing something here, because somehow 'naming and shaming' feels a bit wrong to me but I couldn't quite put my finger on why (other than perhaps it 'humanises' them so I feel less comfortable talking about them!). P.S. to clear up potential confusion if people trawl through my previous posts in order to determine the integrity of my character before deciding how to respond to my post, my other half nicked my profile when posting before (the thought of me on a bicycle in central London is truly terrifying).
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