People do need to stand up, but most of us don't most of the time, myself included. These days it seems much safer just to bit your tongue and seethe internally. In this case the man was clearly embarrassed as he stormed out.
Many years ago my Dad was in the RAF and we were stationed in Germany. He came home from getting his paper from the NAAFI nearly bursting to tell us something. Apparently there was a long queue and a senior Army officer walked straight to the front of the queue. The lady serving told him to get in the queue to which she received the usual "Don't you know who I am?". Her response was "No I don't. You could be the Duke of Kent for all I care. Get in the queue". Senior officer meekly gets in line. Yes, it was the Duke of Kent.
My late gran bothered a lot. However my mum laid down the law after she found it my gran had told off a bunch of late teens running up and down the train carriages in a kind of gang kerfuffle thing. She told them she's seeing the guard and she had spotted that knife up his sleeve. The lad was all apologetic and embarrassed. He pulled the knife out to half show my gran and said its just for self defence and he'd never actually use it. Quite a nice sheath knife too.
The youths ended up sitting down and behaving until the next stop and they had to do a runner with the cops after them.
Another she stopped burglars hopping over a fence of a neighbour to break in at their leisure in the back. Sent them packing too. Typical liverpudlian of her generation.
My Gran wouldn't take any messing either. 5 foot nothing of her, she tended her veg garden until she was in her 80 and realised veg was going missing. She was pretty sure she knew the culprits so sat in her shed one night waiting for them. Once they were engrossed in their thieving she crept out of the shed and laid into them with a riding crop. These were blokes in their 20s and 30s - they never went back for more.
My gran was determined. Probably came in part from being the supervisor of nearly 100 people on the shopfloor. Most of them women. Not that that is normally an issue just with them it was. They'd run rings around you given the chance. She never gave them the chance and they knew it.
Grumble of the day. People have started to use the train again. Three carriages with half of one blocked off. Before the 12th it was empty. Half the seats were empty and the four seat tables most had one person in. Morning run even emptier.
Now every double seat has a person in and tables at least two in over half full. From not even quarter full. Why were they keeping away before? Is the extra just people out to shop and socialise? You do see a lot more people with paper shop bags and especially primary ones.
Then you get one guy on a table. Do you sit on the opposite corner or is that not done in covid times? I did and got 9 minutes of dirty looks until the guy got off at the next station. Everywhere else strangers sharing table seating. Who's right?
KT53,NO the bloke wasn't embarrassed,he only bought one item can't remember what,he couldn't give a monkeys. My late Mum was 5 ft nothing,Dad ruled the roost normal in the 50s, her boss ( cleaning house) told her she was lucky to have a job,ended up anxious and depressed, put onto Valium, again normal then.GP then sent her on an 18 month assertive training course, group therapy.We were in a green grocers, bloke pushed in front of her,she walked him on the head with a white cabbage said "I believe I was next". This little meek woman from her cleaning job went to work for an agency, office work,never do that before. Offered a job at American Express, become their head Telex Operator
Our district has suddenly been inundated with little huddles of red electric scooters everywhere. I wouldn't mind so much if they were parked considerately. The riders are lethal on our narrow streets - how long you reckon before a sad fatality?
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My Gran wouldn't take any messing either. 5 foot nothing of her, she tended her veg garden until she was in her 80 and realised veg was going missing. She was pretty sure she knew the culprits so sat in her shed one night waiting for them. Once they were engrossed in their thieving she crept out of the shed and laid into them with a riding crop. These were blokes in their 20s and 30s - they never went back for more.
Now every double seat has a person in and tables at least two in over half full. From not even quarter full. Why were they keeping away before? Is the extra just people out to shop and socialise? You do see a lot more people with paper shop bags and especially primary ones.
Then you get one guy on a table. Do you sit on the opposite corner or is that not done in covid times? I did and got 9 minutes of dirty looks until the guy got off at the next station. Everywhere else strangers sharing table seating. Who's right?
I do not get pandemic etiquette anymore.
... not convinced that they're a good idea ... what's wrong with walking?
🤔 You need two hands to hold onto the handlebars ... how are they going to hold onto their mobile phones and chatter as they glide through the throng?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.