Grumpy? Me?

It was a fantastic day today. Beautiful sunshine, and blue skies. Travelling through the spring-like countryside into Leeds on the train was a joy.  Not for this bunch, who didn’t look up from their smart phones for a second.  Maybe they have Fascinating Friends, or Riveting Relatives, or maybe they were just playing Candy Crush, but I wanted to shout “Stop it! Look up! Talk to each other!”  Is it just me who finds this so depressing? The irony of me taking a photo of them with my own phone isn’t lost on me by the way….didn’t have a camera.

Then when you arrive at Leeds station, there’s a point where you have to make the massive decision either to take the stairs down, or the escalator, and the number of people shunning the stairs this morning (DOWN!) and heading for the escalator (DOWN!) was unbelievable. I fail to understand the urge to choose the downward escalator, which is 1) slower than the stairs and 2) bone idle!

You may have reached the conclusion that someone moaning about the above issues probably has a problem with other stuff. I do indeed.

How come when I’m in the queue at a supermarket, I always get a person in front of me who seems totally surprised when they find they actually have to pay for their shopping, and then starts rooting about in their bag for a purse that could have already been in their hand in the open mode ready to pay??

And how about the cashiers who treat all card-payers like idiots –  after decades of credit and debit card use, do we really need to be told exactly when to enter our pin code and when to take out the card?

I could go on and on and on.

Oh yes, and what about the snail-pace drivers who always seem to enter a multi-story car-park in front of me, then proceed to drive haltingly up through floor after floor of chocker parking, stopping and hunting for the one elusive empty spot for their rust-bucket, when we could have both been on the totally empty top deck ages ago!

I won’t mention my irritation at gent’s toilet doors always opening inwards…..oops, I mentioned it!