A Couple of Life's Little Mysteries

[Big Shed]

This thread should be renamed "Grumpy Old Men"

[Gra]

This thread should be renamed "Grumpy Old Men"

The frightening thing about that show, is I agree with them...

[Big Shed]

The frightening thing about that show, is I agree with them...

and you're not even 40 yet!

[silentC]

OK, since you asked, here is the list of things I used to hate about Sydney in no particular order:

1. Young kids in hotted up 4 cylinder cars
2. People who sit next to you on a double seat on the train when there are heaps of vacant seats or triple seats with only one other person.
3. People who have loud conversations behind you while you're trying to read.
4. People who don't have the right change in their hand when the bus pulls up.
5. People who get on at the airport with 17 bags and the train has to wait while they load them all into the vestibule, then you have to crawl over them to get off.
6. Having a food court with 20 counters but still not being able to find anything decent to eat.
7. People who walk straight out of a door onto the street without looking to see who is coming.
8. People who wander aimlessly from side to side up the footpath so you can't get past without walking out onto the street.
9. People who walk in bunches 4 or 5 abreast towards you and don't make room for people coming the other way (I used to love barging straight through the middle )
10. Trains that are late, don't stop at your station, or just never turn up and no-one at the station has a clue what's going on.

I'm sure there were good things too, just can't remember any now

[silentC]

Oh, and 11. People who see you coming but don't hold the lift.

[Lignum]

Why is it every time you go to catch a train you have to wait 15 or more minutes, but when you go to cross the line the boom gates come down to make way for the train

[Pat]

While on the trains . . . Why do school kids walk up and down the train, instead of finding a seat or standing room and staying there?

[journeyman Mick]

............The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that cities are full of ignorant and selfish people.

Which is one of the reasons you, I and lots of others left.

Of course, you get ignorant and selfish people in regional and rural areas also, it's just that it's easier to avoid them.

Mick

[silentC]

Yes, I have a much shorter list of things to hate about country life, most of them either related to tourists, driving, or both

[Wongo]

The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that cities are full of ignorant and selfish people.

Your not wrong there.

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Why do people put their bags on a seat?
Why do people block the window seat by sitting on the isle seat?
Why do people people stand near the front door blocking everyone else when the bus is half empty?

[Wongo]

This thread should be renamed "Grumpy Old Men"

Or is it about consideration of others?

[ss_11000]

why do people complain about other people?

cos its fun

you guys like bitchin about the city dont ya's

[Wongo]

why do people complain about other people?

cos its fun

you guys like bitchin about the city dont ya's

Why not? Maybe it is because we care.

[silentC]

I've always said there should be traffic lanes on footpaths and give way signs at every corner or shop entrance.

Oh, and bicycle couriers who go the wrong way up one way streets and collect pedestrians who only look in the direction of oncoming traffic.

And kids on skateboards in Martin Place.

And beggars in St James tunnel.

And buses on Elizabeth street that run red lights.

[echnidna]

and all pedestrians should have trafficators installed