People using up your time

Pollycat

Person_one wrote: »

I don't know why the passes don't allow travel after 9am. Commuters are pretty much all at work by then.

I don't know why either.

But them's the rules (at least in our county).
According to one of the bus drivers I was chatting to, the times of usage is made very clear so - why do they try to use it before the allowed time?

Prothet_of_Doom

cakeforbrains wrote: »

Sometimes, when people are having a conversation with a cashier (or whoever) it'll be the only conversation they've had that day, or that week.

Also, as an aside, people who have Aspergers Syndrome often keep chatting for far too long because they find it very difficult to pick up on those 'got to go now' body-language cues. We've always had to be very patient around my brother about this, whilst gently trying to teach him how to 'not take up too much of other's time'.

My wife thinks I'm borderline aspergers, but sometimes, I start a conversation, and I can see the person isn't interested, so I see how long I can hold their attention against their will.

In terms of being on time, my sister starts day trips about 2pm, just after breakfast. The fact that everyone around her is having lunch, and has been up and doing stuff, does not phase her.

Mind you my idea of a day trip is leaving at 6 am and getting home at 6pm, and hers is leaving at 2p and getting home at 3 am. It's just you always forget that's how she works.

Deep_In_Debt

An old colleague of mine lived in a different time zone to the rest of us. She lived 5 mins drive from work and would wander in 30 mins late and then spend 30 mins in the kitchen before even starting work!

The colleague used to go to bed around 2am so never used to have her dinner until 10pm at the earliest - if we all arranged to meet for a meal, we would give up waiting for her, order our meals and she'd turn up at 9.30pm when we were just finishing and she used to get annoyed that we hadn't waited for her. We'd all arrange to meet at 7.30pm and she'd text someone at 9pm to say she was going to be late!!!!

fierystormcloud

Deep_In_Debt wrote: »

An old colleague of mine lived in a different time zone to the rest of us. She lived 5 mins drive from work and would wander in 30 mins late and then spend 30 mins in the kitchen before even starting work!

The colleague used to go to bed around 2am so never used to have her dinner until 10pm at the earliest - if we all arranged to meet for a meal, we would give up waiting for her, order our meals and she'd turn up at 9.30pm when we were just finishing and she used to get annoyed that we hadn't waited for her. We'd all arrange to meet at 7.30pm and she'd text someone at 9pm to say she was going to be late!!!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Gave me a laugh that did.

Thing is, I don't think you even meant to be funny.

But you were.

melanzana

Regarding those in front of us in queues who seem to take forever and ever and ever to get their business done....

The BIG problem is that they have their backs to us. No eye contact is possible, we cannot give the glare, the rolleyes, or the devil's look. Even a comment or a sigh is not heard.

So everyone should queue backwards. LOL.

Indie_Kid

Pollycat wrote: »

I don't know why either.

But them's the rules (at least in our county).
According to one of the bus drivers I was chatting to, the times of usage is made very clear so - why do they try to use it before the allowed time?

At least where I am, you can get child fare before 9.30am if you use them. Ok, the difference is only something like 50p.

Gingernutty

The OAPs who astound me are the ones who show up before 09:30 to go shopping.

The regulars who get on every morning, show their passes and then have to get off again as it's too early. It's the same ones every morning.

Then there's the mass of pensioners who, having got morning hospital appointments, show up too early in the hope of getting in earlier having no particular place to go, nothing in particular to do - they just have the rest of the day to themselves then.

Jeepers, they're irritating.

fussypensioner

Gingernutty wrote: »

The OAPs who astound me are the ones who show up before 09:30 to go shopping.

The regulars who get on every morning, show their passes and then have to get off again as it's too early. It's the same ones every morning.

Then there's the mass of pensioners who, having got morning hospital appointments, show up too early in the hope of getting in earlier having no particular place to go, nothing in particular to do - they just have the rest of the day to themselves then.

Jeepers, they're irritating.

This seems to be turning into a Pensioner bashing thread and not about those who use up your time. I think you are exaggerating about a "mass" of pensioners showing up too early, I have never seen this and I sometimes get to the bus stop around 9.27 to wait for the first bus that I can get on. Luckily I also drive a car so using a bus is a novelty. You have no idea that they have "no particular place to go and nothing to do" I certainly have plenty to do as already mentioned. I agree that some of the older pensioners get out too early but they have done that all their lives, they probably wake up early and can't settle. I sometimes can't get on the bus for "masses" of foreign students going to the language schools. I think you are just intolerant of older people as I am of some youngsters who stop dead or walk into me whilst updating their Facebook page or whatever they have to do. We can all be irritating.

Just remember this when your time come's

Must go have to get out early to look after my 2 year old grandson so mum and dad can work and save on the nursery fees, and v.happy to do so.

Pollycat

fussypensioner wrote: »

This seems to be turning into a Pensioner bashing thread and not about those who use up your time. I think you are exaggerating about a "mass" of pensioners showing up too early, I have never seen this and I sometimes get to the bus stop around 9.27 to wait for the first bus that I can get on. Luckily I also drive a car so using a bus is a novelty. You have no idea that they have "no particular place to go and nothing to do" I certainly have plenty to do as already mentioned. I agree that some of the older pensioners get out too early but they have done that all their lives, they probably wake up early and can't settle. I sometimes can't get on the bus for "masses" of foreign students going to the language schools. I think you are just intolerant of older people as I am of some youngsters who stop dead or walk into me whilst updating their Facebook page or whatever they have to do. We can all be irritating.

Just remember this when your time come's

Must go have to get out early to look after my 2 year old grandson so mum and dad can work and save on the nursery fees, and v.happy to do so.

So if using a bus is a novelty you don't really have that much of experience of the 'wrinkly bus'.

Trust me - as someone who catches buses from 09:30 often, Gingernutty is not exaggerating.
I made the same point in post #155.
On a 8 mile 35 minute journey, it's not unusual to see up to 10 gold card holders at certain bus stops.
A 52 seater single decker can be full with the maximum standing halfway through the journey and will sail past the crowds waiting towards the end of the route.

Believe me, I'm not intolerant of old people - I'm over 60 myself. But if I ever get hold of a gold card, I will not be trying to get on the first post 09:30 bus that come past my stop unless I have a definite need to get somewhere by a specific time.

Simply_Ted

Pollycat wrote: »

So if using a bus is a novelty you don't really have that much of experience of the 'wrinkly bus'.

Trust me - as someone who catches buses from 09:30 often, Gingernutty is not exaggerating.
I made the same point in post #155.
On a 8 mile 35 minute journey, it's not unusual to see up to 10 gold card holders at certain bus stops.
A 52 seater single decker can be full with the maximum standing halfway through the journey and will sail past the crowds waiting towards the end of the route.

Believe me, I'm not intolerant of old people - I'm over 60 myself. But if I ever get hold of a gold card, I will not be trying to get on the first post 09:30 bus that come past my stop unless I have a definite need to get somewhere by a specific time.

If the wrinklies are on the bus after 9.30 then they have as much right to be there as anyone. Its not really taking up your time. It's not anyone's fault that the bus is full, they obviously need to put on more buses. as you say "unless I have a definite need to get somewhere by a specific time" nobody knows the reason why people get that particular timed bus. Live and let live.


My pet hate is people who park in a baby and toddler space, when the "baby" is at least 5 years or over, they seem to think they have a reserved space for life.