tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post4447684593484170102..comments2024-03-22T18:15:47.666+11:00Comments on Boy on a bike: What sort of people can't keep left?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-54148676187138917662012-11-30T21:44:32.818+11:002012-11-30T21:44:32.818+11:00That's Tony Abbott talk.That's Tony Abbott talk.Mattnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-23054415366776443512012-11-29T07:10:23.225+11:002012-11-29T07:10:23.225+11:00Sandi
The behaviour described by BOAB applies to ...Sandi<br /><br />The behaviour described by BOAB applies to all female age groups. I have seen the exact same behaviour many times. HRTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-31150546523387004662012-11-28T01:06:00.993+11:002012-11-28T01:06:00.993+11:00A "simple concept", and just plain not-s...A "simple concept", and just plain not-so-common sense.<br /><br />Is it young women whose behaviour you describe? I suspect it is. <br /><br />I'm a woman - an old one. We were taught, as little kids, to always walk on the the left side of the footpath. I remember that there was a dividing line painted on the major footpaths of Sydney city when I was very young. I wonder when and why they stopped doing that.<br /><br />These days people, male and female, have absolutely no idea, and no care, of what is happening around them.Yakking on their mobiles, checking their messages, listening to their iPods, they wander all over the footpath, even stepping onto the road without checking traffic. It's as though they expect the whole world will just naturally accommodate whatever it is they want to do, however stupid their actions.<br /><br />I was also taught to give way to older people crossing my path. These days I have to stop or veer off course when younger people just charge forward regardless, in shopping centres or on the street. I'm hobbling along on a walking stick but it makes no difference. I have to be aware, watchful of what's going on around me and do whatever I can to keep from being knocked over. Young women and girls are the worst offenders. Males of any age are far more considerate.<br /><br />Paradoxically, when I board a bus it's the young women who will immediately jump up to offer me their seat, often three or four at the same time while the males, even those in school unform, try very hard to give the impression that they didn't see me (fooling no one but themselves).<br /><br />I've given up trying to figure it out.<br />Sandinoreply@blogger.com