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dotti34 · 26-10-2018, 01:00

It does makes you wonder why some people are so obnoxious and unpleasant. It can certainly affect how they make others feel. For instance, the other morning I caught the bus to a nearby shopping centre. I always say a greeting to the bus drivers and get a like response. However, this time when I said ‘good morning’ the driver didn’t respond but gave me a grumpy look.

A couple of stops further on an oldish aboriginal man got on and politely asked the driver if the bus was going to a certain street. The driver said, very nastily, ‘YOU’RE not going anywhere if you don’t have a ticket’. The man said ‘I do have a ticket’ and proceeded to validate this. Now I naturally have a big mouth (can sometimes get me into trouble) and I was on the point of saying to the driver ‘do you treat everyone like that?’ but then I thought of how dignified the old fellow had been and I knew it would be embarrassing for him if I made an issue out of a very racist assumption, so for once I kept it shut.

I always thank the driver when I’m alighting and I made no exception this time, having been taught good manners. So as the bus was almost at my stop I stepped forward and said ‘thank you’ but in reply he snarled at me to ‘get back behind the line until the bus stops’. (There was a painted line on the floor of the bus and I was one step over it). I got off feeling quite depressed. What a sad sort of man.

But all was not lost. I then went into the bank. The teller greeted me with a big smile and said ‘good afternoon’. I laughed and said it might feel like that but it WAS still morning. She chuckled and said she’d had a really busy couple of hours so it DID feel like afternoon. I told her to take a coffee break and put her feet up, she laughed and said to the teller next to her that she had just been given permission to have a coffee break. I said ‘both of you go’ and that if the boss said anything to tell him to take the matter up with me as I would be just over the road and I’d sort him out. We had a good laugh together and she said ‘if only all our customers were like you’. I left the bank feeling good again and with a spring in my step, and I knew that I had helped brighten someone else’s day also.

26-10-2018, 01:00	#9
dotti34 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,189 Blog Entries: 80 Liked: 1480 times Rep Power: 833512	Re: Remember The Good Old Days... It does makes you wonder why some people are so obnoxious and unpleasant. It can certainly affect how they make others feel. For instance, the other morning I caught the bus to a nearby shopping centre. I always say a greeting to the bus drivers and get a like response. However, this time when I said ‘good morning’ the driver didn’t respond but gave me a grumpy look. A couple of stops further on an oldish aboriginal man got on and politely asked the driver if the bus was going to a certain street. The driver said, very nastily, ‘YOU’RE not going anywhere if you don’t have a ticket’. The man said ‘I do have a ticket’ and proceeded to validate this. Now I naturally have a big mouth (can sometimes get me into trouble) and I was on the point of saying to the driver ‘do you treat everyone like that?’ but then I thought of how dignified the old fellow had been and I knew it would be embarrassing for him if I made an issue out of a very racist assumption, so for once I kept it shut. I always thank the driver when I’m alighting and I made no exception this time, having been taught good manners. So as the bus was almost at my stop I stepped forward and said ‘thank you’ but in reply he snarled at me to ‘get back behind the line until the bus stops’. (There was a painted line on the floor of the bus and I was one step over it). I got off feeling quite depressed. What a sad sort of man. But all was not lost. I then went into the bank. The teller greeted me with a big smile and said ‘good afternoon’. I laughed and said it might feel like that but it WAS still morning. She chuckled and said she’d had a really busy couple of hours so it DID feel like afternoon. I told her to take a coffee break and put her feet up, she laughed and said to the teller next to her that she had just been given permission to have a coffee break. I said ‘both of you go’ and that if the boss said anything to tell him to take the matter up with me as I would be just over the road and I’d sort him out. We had a good laugh together and she said ‘if only all our customers were like you’. I left the bank feeling good again and with a spring in my step, and I knew that I had helped brighten someone else’s day also.