EFF YOU, to the hag SITTING on the number one bus to Spring Garden Road. It’s 8am in the morning, everyone’s cranky, everyone’s tired, and nobody wants to take a fricking bus to work or school. Be considerate to the cold Mari timers who have to get up every morning, and have to put up with their teachers and bosses and have to get through the day. Nobody needs a middle aged lady who thinks she’s all-so-awesome because she’s old; yelling at them because their backpack is accidentally hitting them on the shoulder. I’m SOOOOOOOOOOORRRY if I’m stuck STANDING on a CROWDED bus and with no room to put my backpack on the floor. Don’t tell me to put my backpack on the floor, when I already don’t have enough room to even breathe. Thanks for ruining my day.
—Sick and tired of being nice to old people.
This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2009.
Taking off your backpack and holding it low in front of you or putting it on the floor takes up less room compared to wearing it at the same level where everyone’s shoulders are.
Agreed VOR….I thought holding your bag on a crowded bus/subway was standard practice. And some backpacks jut out from the back pretty far…especially if they are stuffed with textbooks for class.
someone telling you to move your backpack ruined your day? Wait until you’re all grown up and have to make it in the real world you fucking crybaby.
No no no, you should leave your back pack on your back…especially if it contains valuables. With the upcoming Olympics in Brasil, we will get to see in action, some of the best pickpockets and thieves the world has to offer.
One of the events I most look forward to is the backpack rummage event, where small children and even monkeys are lifted up on their parents shoulders in order to compete for that laptop or iPod….look for our Canadian atheletes, resplendant in their Maple-leaf bearing packs…
Middle age is NOT old!
HKM…sorry there, but it is !
Old starts about 28 -30 , really old is 40 +, & anyone older than say 50 they’ve probably seen live dinosaurs. Ask any teenager, & they’ll back me up.
Yep, I had a dinosaur once, named her Gertie, and could she dance the hokey-pokey!
I thought you wrote old starts at 78-80, and I thought, damn right! then I adjusted my bifocals…
I think there should be a new tag for bitches like these:
“Pooooor Baaaybeeee”
or something.
i get a kick out of the idiots that carry a fucking big trunk on their shoulders, and then nail anyone sitting on the outside seats. and not once saying sorry, that i’m such an idiot to carry a fucking big bag. you all know who you are, and i hope someone gets real pissed one day, and takes your bag, along with you, and throws both of the bus.
Too bad the ‘old lady’ didn’t ram that knapsack down your piehole, you stupid little twat. Your sense of entitlement is typical of the young – anyone with a brain knows you take it off before you get on the fucking bus and keep it at your feet.
Put it on top of your feet, you little pussy. It’s off the floor and there’s a perfectly sized space for it.
More – nobody gives a flying fuck what teenagers think! Quit hanging out at Citadel High dances trying to score the remaining five of seven digits.
ok I’m in my late 50’s, so I remember when Jesus and I went out on the town and Buddha got so fucking wasted he tried to start a fight with John the Baptist who was putting the moves on Mohammed who was eating a donair….. while we waited for the number 9 camel back to Dartmouth, which in those days was a respectable place.
Noah was having difficultise with the Port Veterinarian about some discrepancies with the list of animals onboard specifically the rabbits and his response of “well they do fuck an awful lot”, and the Virgin Mary has just got another ticket for riding her bike without a helmet.
The Dalai Lama had a grow op and was getting pissed because the cops kept busting him – the joys of living in Spryfield….
That’s how old I feel some days
Haven’t seen the Holy Spook in a dog’s age, not since he fronted that jug band – wonder if he’s hanging around his old haunts.
I love how when travelling, some Canadians assume that just because they’re Canadian and sew a little maple leaf on their backpack while making sure that everyone knows they’re “Canadian, not American, nope a Canadian, Canadian!” that people will automatically treat them like Gods or Goddesses. “Ohh, you Canadian! I going to kill you thinking you American, but now you take my first born daughter.” Not quite so true from my experience. Whether you’re Canadian, American, Australian, whatever… most people just want your money!
Anyway, back on topic, yes, take off your backpack and hold it up front when riding the bus and yes, anyone over 30 is old.
Basil, that was gold.
“Old starts about 28 -30 , really old is 40 +”?
Hysterical. “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” – Mark Twain.
The older you get, you realise just how dumb you were.
I ride the bus with my backpack and I wear it, unless there is seat action, then I’ll take it off and it goes on my lap.
No way I’m gonna let someone step on my laptop. You guys go for it though!
On a crowded bus it’s hard enough standing there and keeping your balance. Putting a backpack on the ground (where people can trip/step on it), or holding it (having one less arm to hold onto the railing for dear life) doesn’t seem any better…
I don’t think there’s a happy medium in this one
What *I* want to know is wtf do people carry with them in those HUGE stuffed backpacks?
I get ALL my shit (laptop and text books included) in a tote bag half the size of a bookbag!
Isn’t carrying around a stuffed backpack hard on your back and a pain in the ass? Why do people seem to think they have to carry the entire contents of their homes with them when they go out?
Pretty Kitty…maybe its their laundry !
Or some domesticated chickens.
teehee…whats with that smell and the strange noises…oh sorry thats me bird