Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[Badgers]

Bus ticket discussion is amusing...

I got on one the other morning and a 'yoof' got on after me but obviously had nothing on his Oyster Card.
The bus driver asked him to pay or get off and he refused with the words 'just fucking drive' as an after thought.
He then said that the bus driver 'was being a twat' and was 'making everyone wait' to which the bus driver said 'you are making everyone wait'
Throughout this pleasant exchange the 'yoof' was also chatting away on his mobile phone.



Part of me wanted to just throw the little twat off the bus but guessed that I would probably just get stabbed up, or arrested for assault.

Then another bus pulled up behind and the driver opened up the back doors, all the passengers (including me) piled off and onto the bus behind. The PAYG passengers explained to bus driver number two that they had already paid on the previous bus and he did just let everyone on.

As we drove past the driver of bus number one was on the phone to (I assume) the police and the 'yoof' was still standing in the middle of the now empty bus chatting on his mobile.

What a charming event

 

[teuchter]

I secretly enjoy yoof/bus driver stand-offs. Especially when the bus driver wins.

 

[Badgers]

I secretly enjoy yoof/bus driver stand-offs. Especially when the bus driver wins.

I have said a few times that driving a London bus must be a real misery at times. I bet they really deal with some awful human beings!!!

 

[billythefish]

I have said a few times that driving a London bus must be a real misery at times. I bet they really deal with some awful human beings!!!

... especially on the school runs. I try to avoid that time of day at all costs, but the last time I had the misfortune to be on a bus then, exactly the same thing happened. We were all asked to abandon the bus - everyone from toddlers with their parents to OAPs - in the middle of the Wandsworth one-way system.
The kids on the back seat stayed there willing each other to out-psych the driver. So selfish.

 

[Not a Vet]

The thing that gets me about these stand offs, is that most youngsters (in full time education) get free travel anyway so why the hassle. You want to intervene but why risk getting assaulted, prosecuted etc over something like this. Sad that society is like this now.

 

[Not a Vet]

Cafe Prov update - opening moved back to 21st.
Mate had a look round yesterday and its all change, they've moved the bar, decorated (bright orange) and introduced a dedicated mums with kids daytime space.

 

[Winot]

and introduced a dedicated mums with kids daytime space.

Will Dads be banned?

 

[snowy_again]

What about undedicated, tardy mums?

 

[Not a Vet]

Will Dads be banned?

Hey I don't make the rules

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Will Dads be banned?

Dad's and Kid's space is in the half moon

 

[snackhead]

What about childless spinsters, we need garlic chips too

 

[quimcunx]

I want a little diary but Woolies is no more.

I got a boring one from WH Smiths in Charing Cross in the end.

 

[quimcunx]

What about childless spinsters, we need garlic chips too

Don't be silly. We need to watch our weights so we can attract a mate and spawn children. Then we will be allowed.

Only then.

 

[teuchter]

What about hungry sophisticated batchelors? No one ever thinks of them.

 

[quimcunx]

What about hungry sophisticated batchelors? No one ever thinks of them.

Nonsense. Childless spinsters think of little else. Mostly what they are thinking is ''where the fuck are they all? Why don't I know any.''

 

[Not a Vet]

I noticed that the first protesters had gathered outside Cafe Prov this morning complete with placards and a loud speaker. They appeared to be shouting "What do we want? Garlic chips. When do we want them? Now"

 

[ajdown]

I noticed that the first protesters had gathered outside Cafe Prov this morning complete with placards and a loud speaker. They appeared to be shouting "What do we want? Garlic chips. When do we want them? Now"

....

 

[ajdown]

There appears to be 'building activity' in the old betting shop on the corner of New Park Road with Brixton Hill, although I don't know what work is going on there.

 

[snackhead]

I noticed that the first protesters had gathered outside Cafe Prov this morning complete with placards and a loud speaker. They appeared to be shouting "What do we want? Garlic chips. When do we want them? Now"

Yes I was that loud speaker, and we will be there every day, the fight will not stop, our childless voices will be heard, the struggle will not cease until the moment when that first steaming platter of garlicky sliced potatoness is served.

Can we fix it?

Yes we can!

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[teuchter]

Childless
Hungry
Independent
Pretty (but never asked out cos we still can't tell when someone fancies us so never flirt back, they don't think we're interested and wander off)
Spinsters

I see what you did there. Ingenious.

 

[snackhead]

I see what you did there. Ingenious.

Why thank you

What about hungry sophisticated batchelors? No one ever thinks of them.

 

[teuchter]

 

[snackhead]

 

[teuchter]

 

[twistedAM]

Flirts

 

[ajdown]

What on earth are the roadworks going on outside the tube station now? Our bus got held up for about 5 minutes, then we got sent 'wrong side' up through to Coldharbour Lane on a one way sorta thing, looked like a big 'surface planer' machine was in use, and one being unloaded by St Matthews as we went past.

They're digging it all up already?

 

[lang rabbie]

Flirts

But I had understood that when "batchelor" was qualified by "sophisticated" it had the same meaning as Robin William's epithet "Tall, thin men who like show tunes"

 

[twistedAM]

But I had understood that when "batchelor" was qualified by "sophisticated" it had the same meaning as Robin William's epithet "Tall, thin men who like show tunes"

And antique furniture too?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

What on earth are the roadworks going on outside the tube station now? Our bus got held up for about 5 minutes, then we got sent 'wrong side' up through to Coldharbour Lane on a one way sorta thing, looked like a big 'surface planer' machine was in use, and one being unloaded by St Matthews as we went past.

They're digging it all up already?

There are notices all over Brixton saying that from 8.00pm onwards there's roadworks.

They're resurfacing Brixton Road.

Maybe if you concentrated less on the alchies, bible bashers, drunk addicts etc. you'd see the signs

 

[teuchter]

There are notices all over Brixton saying that from 8.00pm onwards there's roadworks.

They're resurfacing Brixton Road.

Maybe if you concentrated less on the alchies, bible bashers, drunk addicts etc. you'd see the signs

I managed to work out, all by meself, without even reading the signs, what they are doing, based on the following cunningly concealed clues:

1. They have been rebuilding the high street for several months and we have been talking about it here for several months
2. They have nearly finished the pavements
3. They had not done anything to the Southbound carriageway road surface yet
4. Last night or maybe the night before they resurfaced the Northbound carriageway; this I deduced from the shiny new tarmac and road markings I spied with my eyes this morning
5. There were several enormous road-surfacing machines re-surfacing the road when I came out of the tube this evening.

From these cunningly concealed clues I cunningly concluded that what they are doing is resurfacing the road.

I am clever, me.