Blonde on the #1-
At the end of a tiring workday on a full #1 bus, you are sit on an outside seat and give your small grocery bags the honor of the inside seat – blocking access for any tired human who may want to rest their gams in that beautiful empty spot. Do you not see the woman in front of you with 5 times the groceries piled up on her lap to make way for someone new? Perhaps you were raised by yuppies in a your little blonde princess world where your needs were always met. I guess you do not see the rest of us plebeians – standing and hanging off rails as you chat with your friend in the opposite seat- loudly. Suck it up blondie and join us down here in the real world where sometimes people believe giving up your groceries seat for a fellow human being. You have no class and karma will smite you. —Tired gams
This article appears in Oct 17-23, 2013.
now what’s wrong with saying something about it at the time? doing something?
you see this person with their crap taking up a seat and you loudly announce “oh goody, a free seat” then stick your ass in her face as you squeeze in and sit on her stuff, or pick it up and hand it to her.
the only reason people nowadays (and it would never have gotten this bad 40 years ago) get away with this is because no one challenges them. everyone is seething inside but says and does nothing. except bitch anonymously. or invoke karma. wtf?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but little blonde yuppies are still coming off the assembly line with auditory organs; and plebeians still come equipped with mouths. Cuntshaming is not yet a forbidden activity so Raise Some Holy Hell!
Why it was just this morning I noticed a group of uni students at a bus stop taking up the entire crosswalk … people exited the bus and proceeded to the street and WALKED AROUND THEM ….. no siree, I stood and asked what the demonstration was for and if they had a permit. Dumbfounded they parted and allowed me to proceed on the PUBLIC sidewalk. I was amazed hoards of people actually stepped off the curb so as not to intrude on the entitled fuckers.
you know, this passive aggressive behaviour drives me crazy. as I am sure it has driven men (in general) crazy about women (in general) over millennia.
it’s like humanity has now become princesses. expecting other people to INTUIT their grievances. ‘well if you loved me you would know why I am angry’. ‘well if you were a decent human you would know it’s wrong to take up two seats’. and of course the twit sitting down is feeling her princess right to take up all the seats because no one is telling her she can’t. (much like that idiot tech I had who said ‘well there was no sign saying I couldn’t park the company van on the railway tracks’)
no one’s mom is going to climb onto the bus and start pulling ears to get people to behave. guess what? YOU have to be the mom because you are all grown up now. you get to stand up and demand that people behave because MOM’s job is over. it’s YOUR TURN. everyone……LISTEN UP. it’s YOUR turn!
and another thing, tired gams, and everyone else who has ever griped and whined here and not on the spot. IF the object of your ire actually reads your bitch, do you really, honestly think they will be repentant? sorrowful? ashamed of their behaviour?
absolutely NOT. they will be thrilled to death that they made an impact on someone else’s life and gleefully thankful that person was such a coward they got away with naughty behaviour. (until they run into koda heh heh)
They probably wouldn’t even realize that the bitch was written about them, them being perfect little centers of the universe and all…
This sounds worse than the horrible realtor yammering loudly over the bus’ grumble, 3 feet from my head yesterday into a bluetoowshbag, robot earpiece.
zzz with those folks I like to join in the conversation, shouting out advice, suggestions
Jesus christ, ob, just tell her to move her shit.
If she doesn’t, climb over the bitch and sit on her shit.
Yeah. Fuck her.
JIVIN’ IVAN, WHAT DOES THIS BLONDE HAVE IN COMMON WIT DA LIBERTY BELL?
ONE IS CRACKED, AND THE OTHER IS A DING DONG!!!!!!!
She’s not a bad person. She’s a stupid person. You getting angry at her is like a professor of mathematics getting angry because a theater student can’t get algebra 101. Everyone is stupid about at least one thing. So start with this premise.
Listen. Stupid people are often embarrassed about being stupid. No matter what the typical blond female stereotype tells you, being stupid is not something anybody enjoys. So you don’t have to be a dick and you don’t have to be condescending. All you have to do is say “Excuse me. Can I sit here?” and the stupid person will realize how oblivious they had been, blush a little and go “oh sure” and voila. You’ve got a seat. And maybe next time they’ll think.
Coming here and bitching to people who probably DON’T do this isn’t going to get anybody anywhere.
Being a plebian sucks sometimes.
Oh my fucking God that is not how karma works I’m not even a Buddhist and I know this crap
Chew on this one, sunshine; what is the greater evil, her being self-absorbed on a bus ride or you seeing a thoughtless action and doing nothing to remedy it, then wishing punishment for it in their next life?
If she was raised by hippies, do you honestly think they’d permit her to travel on the loser cruiser with the untermensch?
She may have been escaping from her gypsy abductors.
Just say something! Or sit down on their stuff. I have done both, they both work to get them to take their stuff off the seat.
Each new generation is getting dumber and dumber. First started noticing this phenomena around ten years or so now. There is more intelligence in two seniors than about four or five thousand ten to twenty year olds.
Hello Gams,
The meek shall inherit the earth, it is said .. but only the bold get the bus seat!
Seriously, such heavy-handed judgement says more about you than her. Too meek to ask her nicely to move her stuff, but boldly cutting her up here after she doesn’t offer same. Karma is mostly misunderstood, especially by those who use the concept to “smite” others.