Comments | sandor_baci: Charity as rebuke

sandor_baci

Charity as rebuke

Jun 07, 2012 21:18

At McDonald's, the queues long at every till. The customer in the queue before me reaches the till, places his order; the order is rung up. £7.17. He hands the clerk £7. "£7.17," she says. He begins to question, of all things, the electronic addition. I am hungry. The queue is lengthening behind me ( Read more... )

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aofe June 7 2012, 20:19:37 UTC

I love you for this.

bosendorfer_boy June 8 2012, 21:50:51 UTC

Seconded!

sandor_baci June 8 2012, 22:00:05 UTC

It was a fractious day. On the express from Heathrow into Paddington I'd already yelled at someone (an American; black; no, not because he was black but because he was LOUD) for yippityyapping on his mobile in a "quiet carriage", after which I sicced the conductor on him -- who scooted the offender, still yapping, off into a different carriage, and serve him right.

Righteous wrath? Smuggissimo? W'evs. C'est moi.

The A.b. gave me an eye full of evils on the platform in Paddington. Arsehole. This is a different country, mate, I wanted to say to him. Play by its rules. The stickers describing and specifying the rules for QUIET CARRIAGE are everywhere. Learn to read and you won't feel so hard done by.

muckefuck June 7 2012, 21:50:32 UTC

Who in their right mind argues over 17p?