Inexpressible outrage
Oct. 18th, 2005 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
king_pellinorGetting on the ferry this morning, I went down the tunnel to the boat and got told to wait for a bit while they checked how many seats were left. Not an uncommon occurrence, especially as both big ferries seem to be broken at the moment and they're reduced to the two little ones.
The two women coming down the tunnel behind me carried on, to stop beside me but slightly in front.
Chappy on the ferry says "1 more", and the women who'd come down behind stepped forward holding out their tickets for collection!
Luckily the chappy said there's only 1 seat at the moment but maybe more, so I got on while they were in disarray, but still! If there'd been two seats left I might have lost my opportunity to be polite and let them on instead of me (I cannot stand people who are so rude as to wrongly deny me the chance to be polite to them); as it was, it looked almost as though they were being polite to me when in fact they were just having their rudeness rightly rebuffed!
They got on anyway, as there were actually about half a dozen seats.
I think I nearly blinked with shock when they stepped forward. Outrageous!
The two women coming down the tunnel behind me carried on, to stop beside me but slightly in front.
Chappy on the ferry says "1 more", and the women who'd come down behind stepped forward holding out their tickets for collection!
Luckily the chappy said there's only 1 seat at the moment but maybe more, so I got on while they were in disarray, but still! If there'd been two seats left I might have lost my opportunity to be polite and let them on instead of me (I cannot stand people who are so rude as to wrongly deny me the chance to be polite to them); as it was, it looked almost as though they were being polite to me when in fact they were just having their rudeness rightly rebuffed!
They got on anyway, as there were actually about half a dozen seats.
I think I nearly blinked with shock when they stepped forward. Outrageous!
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Date: 2005-10-18 01:24 pm (UTC)Anyway, I *was* more than 10 seconds early. It's just that they seem to have broken both their big boats and don't have room for everyone on the little ones.