Was on the 51 today and these two old women spent the whole journey moaning.


Went past the bar and restuarant renovation near the back of Orchard Square:

"Ooh because we need more o them don't we."
"It's the devil's own work"


Went past new Peace Gardens hotel development:

"Look it's just going to be garages - what's that going to do for the city. Eh?"
"It's a devil isn't it. Devil's own."


General chatter:

"This is the worst city in England. It's horrible. Doncaster's better."
"Even Rotherham's better!"

By this point I was ready to get up and have a go at them spouting the fabulous points of Sheffield, but they got off. Bloody old biddys...why can't they appreciate what they've got?

LOL Don't you just love some of the conversations you overhear on public transport :loopy:

"It's the devil's own work"

I'm going to start using that phrase I think :hihi:

90% of people moan about where they live. I come from a town in Leicestershire and have visited quite a few places across the country and Sheffield is probably the best place I have been to where the people within it do not appreciate what they have got.

Long live Sheffield!

Many moons ago when I was forced to travel the way of the peasent, I remember hearing an old woman complaining to her withered friend that if it wasn't for all the buses on the road causing hold ups, 'this' bus route would be a lot quicker.

:confused:

old age , cant wait really????????????.:loopy: :loopy:

This puts me in mind of a story my Gran told me (several times if truth be told!) She was apparrently on a bus one winters day with my Aunt, and the bus was quite full. There were two Italian women at the back of the bus jabberring quite loudly in (you guessed it!) Italian.

This had gone of for several minutes, until a poorly-dressed woman at the front of the bus stood up, turned around and said (with a faint italian accent) 'Yes, it is an old coat I've got, but it's very warm, and I like it.' Then adressed everyone else with - They've slagged each and everyone of you off on this bus; I might be poor, but I'm not stupid!'

My Gran said that the women got off at the very next stop with very red faces, and in fear of being lynched! :D

K x

I once sat in front of a bloke on a bus and could hear him moaning about the local area (it was Rochdale, so fair enough).

At first I thought he was on a hands free kit but after a minute or so, I realised he was doing both parts of the conversation, with a slightly different voice for each. It's sad I know but I couldnt help smiling to myself as his arguments were very comical.

The words of Juny Mitchel"s song are true. You don't know what you've got till it's gone. Some people bag every thing, then winge when things change.

Originally posted by noseyrosie
Was on the 51 today and these two old women spent the whole journey moani
Bloody old biddys...why can't they appreciate what they've got?

Not all old women are grumpy rosie.

Do I detect discimination here. "Is it co I's old"

Some of us oldies complain less than the young
Hazel

I know I am probably gonna be publicly humiliated for this comment but as a Brummy, I couldn't agree more....Sheffield is the biggest dump I have ever lived in...and i've lived in some real places, Plymouth, Wolverhampton, Bermondsey etc etc...

Ok, ok...I know what you're all thinking,
Q:"If it's such a dump why don't you just p*** off..??"

A:"My opinion has been clearly voiced to the missus who is a northerner and was unlucky enough to come from Sheffield"

Not here for long hopefully...Big up the old women

To be honest the city centre doesn't look that good to me either, at the moment it's a big building site.

But thats progress for ya.

Originally posted by BobDaBuilder
I know I am probably gonna be publicly humiliated for this comment but as a Brummy, I couldn't agree more....Sheffield is the biggest dump I have ever lived in...and i've lived in some real places, Plymouth, Wolverhampton, Bermondsey etc etc...

Ok, ok...I know what you're all thinking,
Q:"If it's such a dump why don't you just p*** off..??"

A:"My opinion has been clearly voiced to the missus who is a northerner and was unlucky enough to come from Sheffield"

Not here for long hopefully...Big up the old women

The point is though people don't 'live' in Wolverhampton, they just 'exist'!

K x

Originally posted by Hels
LOL Don't you just love some of the conversations you overhear on public transport :loopy:

I once got on the bus and sat behind two women in mid conversation, one of them said something like "...and she can't wear trousers, not since the accident.......".

what kind of accident ?

I just sat their doing that silent laughing where you just vibrate and turn red.

Originally posted by Kristian
The point is though people don't 'live' in Wolverhampton, they just 'exist'!

K x

Couldn't agree more Kristian....and why they exist is beyond me cos they don't serve any purpose...???

Nothing to do with old ladies, but funny conversations you overhear on a bus......

whilst sitting on the bus to town a few weeks back, i overheard (well it was hard not to), two young girls chatting....

i came to the conclusion that these two girls were 'escorts' as they were publicly and very loudy talking about last nights
rendezvous with a client in full graphic detail, with kinky tricks and all, bearing in mind the bus was full of old ladies and all looking at them in disgust, i felt embarrased for them! :)

My favourite overheard comment has to be
"He's ever such a good husband to her. Even goes to the dentist for her..."
The mind boggles.

I know I am probably gonna be publicly humiliated for this comment but as a Brummy

...

A:"My opinion has been clearly voiced to the missus who is a northerner and was unlucky enough to come from Sheffield"

In a really annoying accent no doubt.

What mae, i day have an annoying accent me ol mucka...chuffin eck, in fact thee lot up ere as the most silly accent thy as ever eeeard....

With most of my life spent in the army in places like canada, germany, hong kong and Ireland I would consider my accent to be very f***** up but not annoying....

What mae, i day have an annoying accent me ol mucka...chuffin eck, in fact thee lot up ere as the most silly accent thy as ever eeeard....

Thas got me there me duck. :D

Alan Bennett is the doyen of the overheard "old lady"remark.Two of my favourites being, "That fool of a tortoise is out again" and "Of course ,it won't be any good to her now,as a foot,I mean!!"

Originally posted by Hopman
My favourite overheard comment has to be
"He's ever such a good husband to her. Even goes to the dentist for her..."
The mind boggles.

That puts me in mind of Nanna Royle talking about her oldest friend's marriage. 'He used to knock her about a bit, but her home was beautiful!'

Mind boggles indeed!

K x

I caught a bus back from Doncaster a couple of years ago.
There was a gang of noisy loudmouth students sat at the back.. Banging on and on, loudly with every alternate word 'fuffing' or 'buffing' AS THEY DO...
What accentuated it was they were not speaking English but swearing in English!
(shan't bother to say what nationality - it's irrelevant...).
Anyway.
At first it tickled me, I thought it was amusing, but after about 10 minutes I'd had enough & I could see that most of the other passengers were looking round & tutting etc. AS THEY DO...
There were alot of elderly people on the bus so I thought I'd be BigMan & tell em to shut it.
Which I did...
"A-Stranger-in-the-saloon" type silence befell the bus & dust clouds blew accross the floor like in a Western.
I was forced to stare-out the biggest student who 'disagreed' with my request.

At this moment of high tension a little old lady turned round and said, loudly

"I'm glad somene's told em to shut up!
It's bleedin' terrible the language kids come out with ...........
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :x

It's the same every morning on the 41 about 7.45ish. Same group of "Youths" every day, every word effing this- effing that in that dull nasally tone. The latest trick is to hawk up phlegm very loudly and flob all over the back of the bus.....and guffaw loudly.

Peasant travel indeed, as another poster put it.

Perhaps this is where ASBO's could come in useful - ban the little scroats from using public transport!

to add to the "bus experience"...

WORST:
You're stuck in your seat on a busy bus and there's someone behind with thee most ghastly, sniffly cold sneezing and coughing. You can feel your hair part when they cough...uurrrrr...

Someone sits next to you and leans your way just that little bit too much (normally someone with a BO problem). I'm not someone who suffers with someone invading my personal space but when their head is about 3 inches from yours, it's a tad freaky... You feel you should at least say hello but if you do they turn slowly and glare.... eek!

BEST:
When that annoying chav who has been sitting at the back of the bus spitting and swearing gets up to get off and as he slopes down the aisle the driver breaks that little bit too sharply and over he goes... :) That creates so much happiness.

ff.

I recently had the pleasure of listening to an unhinged chap muttering to himself and occassionally breaking into song "Oooooooh, the blood of Jesus" whilst rocking back and forth.

Long ago my favorite was two old ladies who used to catch the bus at the same stop as me in the mornings, one of them was extremely hard of hearing and the other frequently had to repeat herself.

The amusing part came from the whole bus being treated to a range of subjects from "Him on the tills, no not the simple one the dark lad" "Edna's problem (down there!)" and "you'd not want one of them near you would you!"

I never found out what Edna's problem or what one of them was. Brightened up my morning I can tell you

I once saw 3 old ladies sat at the front of a bus talking about, well, what old ladies talk about! And when one of them stood up to get off, she says "Oooohh, I must sort out these trousers, rubbing like a good un on my boil" To which the other ones go, "Oooh, you haven't got one of them have yer!?" As this old lady gets off, she croutches down and does the "ooohh" face, but the croutching down as in, the boil is in my crutch look!!!
Ewwww