People are so rude!

Alan, Samuel and I took a trip down south this weekend to meet up with Dawn. She usually comes to visit us in Aberdeen between the October half term and Christmas, but she couldn't this year as we're not there...duh! So we decided to meet halfway, in Huntingdon (when I say halfway, it isn't really...we had to drive a bit furtherthan Dawn!)

It was a short and sweet meeting. We met at lunchtime on Saturday and left mid-afternoon on Sunday, but it was fantastic to catch up and for Samuel to see his Aunty Dawn. He changes so much every day that, even when Mum and Dad haven't seen him for a few days, they notice a big difference in him, so I am sure Dawn saw a massive change in him!

On Sunday, we decided to go into Cambridge, mainly because the weather was minging and we knew we could just go from coffee shop to coffee shop if we needed to (I'm turning into Grandma Watson!) We took the Park and Ride into Cambridge (Samuel's first bus trip...very exciting!) On the way back, we were in the queue to get on the bus (typical, we were at the front, but the bus stopped at the other end so we ended up at the back!) when there was a commotion in front of us. Basically, there had been a misunderstanding in which the bus driver had asked the people at the front to wait until the people had got off the bus but his hand gesture suggested that they should proceed! The mother and daughter who were at the front of the queue were apparantly very rude (I didn't hear what was said) and the bus driver asked them to leave his bus. Then followed a 5 minute slanging match between the driver and the women while everyone else quietly got onto the bus. One poor fellow, who obviously felt sorry for the bus driver, went over and said that he would back the bus driver up, as this lady wanted his name to report him to his manager. This innocent man then received a load of lip from the woman as he shrank back into his seat.

Why do people of today think that they have all these rights? The procedure of letting people off the bus before other people get on is obviously something that all the bus drivers do, and most of the public obey. But something in these two women told them that they didn't have to wait. They had the right to be on that bus and, even if it meant creating a commotion, they would let everyone know that they had been badly treated.

I left Cambridge feeling quite upset. I don't like ill-feeling, whether I know the people involved or not. People don't seem to have respect for each other any more. And I'm beginning to think they I am in the minority of people who think that we should respect each other, and that we should be courteous!

The frightening thing is that generations are becoming more and more ill-mannered, and they are passing this disrespectful attitude down to their children, and their grandchildren. When is it going to stop?