Archive for the ‘public behaviour’ Category
Public Sex
It was already dark after work and I was walking home through a student lodging area when I passed a room that was at basement level. The light in the room was full on and the curtains were wide open. As I meandered by, I casually looked down into the room to see a young couple having naked sex. I [...]
Filed under: public behaviour | Closed
Walk-on
A jaywalker cut in front just as I was crossing the road, enroute to work. Instead of my usual reaction, which is to slow down and let the offender pass, I continued walking and trod on his foot. We both let fly with a loud, angry ‘Tsk!’ over our shoulders as we made off in different directions. Jaywalking is [...]
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Marshmallow
On the bus to work, a guy sits with his body turned so that his knees are protruding into the aisle. He’s noisy on his mobile phone, doing all the talking it seems, giving loud yawns and sighs, tapping one foot and swinging his knees open and closed repeatedly. Strap a pair of cymbals to the inside of those knees and [...]
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She Won’t Mind
There’s always one cougher on the bus. When there is a cluster of coughers, they sound like dogs taking it in turns to see which one can bark the loudest. The bloke in the window seat next to me is large and fat, with a girlish voice, squawking into his mobile phone. His midriff blubber [...]
Filed under: ladies, public behaviour | Closed
Stranger
A strange man came to our main reception desk today. He wasn’t excessively strange but his pale, frail eyelids gave the imagery of a shy lizard having recently shed its skin; a lizard that would inhabit a subterranean cavern, or somewhere sunless. He wasn’t one of ours and as soon as he realized, apologized and said that he should have gone to [...]
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Unwanted Conduct
Why do some women have to be tapping, poking, nudging, or grabbing at me when they speak? I do NOT like it. Why do you deny doing this? How many times do you need to be told?! Don’t then argue or give some lame excuse. Just stop it. It’s bad enough having to see and hear you. My endurance is even more [...]
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Sight and Sound Offensive
If I used a hearing aid, it would be switched off when Elsie Trump is around. Her laughter is loud and frequent. Too jarring for mature ears. Young Elsie’s joie de vivre is boundless, which is a good thing. But sometimes her mirthful screeching just won’t stop. Sounds like her mechanism has stuck and needs to be corrected, or disabled, with a hefty [...]
Filed under: public behaviour, teenagers | Closed
Lunch Break
Such a cacophonous gabble of loud voices. I’m on a bus, sitting near a woman in her twenties, who has a large face and double chin. She’s reading a book, picking her nose then picking the fingernails that picked her nose and finishing with a wipe of the back of her hand across the scene of the crime. Now she’s reaching [...]
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Dental Floss
Using dental floss in public is unseemly. That dull ‘twang’ as the taut length of tape is yanked from between two tight-fitting teeth then further along the line, threaded between the next two, and so on. I thought I saw blood, or something, staining the floss as one of my superiors performed her mouth toilet after the lunch-break today. After [...]
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Transport Problems
It’s stressful enough holding down a job, without the travails of travelling to and from. On the bus this morning, someone coughed raucously near my face without covering his mouth. I thought I’d been mistaken for a spittoon. And another guy, shamelessly picking his nose. It’s enough to put anyone off their porridge. Yesterday on the bus home, another offender, this one with her feet [...]
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