Day 41.....Let's talk about 'Rudeness'

Day 41........Let's talk about 'Rudeness'

3 Girls and 4 Suitcases

There's not too much to say about yesterday and so I thought that I'd write a little about the lack of manners displayed by people, mainly on the TTC.
I knew that the queuing system was a bit of a problem, from living here before and it appears to not have improved any. I remember Ruth Fishel commenting on the politeness of queuing in Edinburgh, for buses and I do miss it here.
When I first lived here and began using the subway for the first time, it very quickly became clear that it was a free for all, to get on any form of public transport........or you would be left standing at the stop. It doesn't matter whether or not you were there first, as soon as that train, bus, streetcar comes into sight, everyone will move as close to where they will be getting on as is humanly possible....and sometimes it feels closer than that.
It took me a wee while to become comfortable with just pushing in and I am still very aware of who was there before me and try to ensure that I let them on before me, else I'm as bad as those that I am now judging. I do not, however, stand back and let those who arrived after me, muscle on in front of me and it hasn't taken me nearly as long to be comfortable with doing that this time around.
The other thing that is almost worse is that people take up 2 seats and don't think to move their legs/bags etc when others are standing. I suppose, in their defense, someone could ask them to move things so that they can sit and Bill has done this. Me? I'm going to begin to do it because, why moan about it when you can do something about it, right?
Finally, kids and sidewalks-actually, even the adults and sidewalks. Bill has begun to refuse to move on to the road, when a crowd approaches, even if it means standing still, till the other person moves over a bit or bumping shoulders with the person. I'm a work in progress and on some days, more than others, I will stand my ground.
It's a bit linked to your self-worth, if you feel that you have to go up on the grass or down on the road......but not always. If you choose to do those things, without any resentments, then that's a great place to be because on that day, you understand that it really isn't important-right?
Rant over.
So, yesterdays most lovely thing was that Andrew came to visit again and he even bought/collected us Pizza for dinner-yum.
Ali' recovered from her soaking on the way to school and is doing really well in her tests-yippee. I could do without the 'I don't want to get up and go to school' in the morning but she's doing pretty good. The sun is shining this morning and so she's safely made it to school without being drenched today.
Jen hasn't begun her packing yet-she's off on a 4.30 flight to Vancouver, today. The hoose will be very quiet with her gone and Bill heading back to Edinburgh tomorrow.
We went for yet another of our exploratory walks, yesterday afternoon but it was only for 45 mins and very local. We did an 'in and out the dust bluebells' along the local streets and this really is a beautiful area to live. The streets are all tree lined and the houses are all different shapes, sizes and colours. Lots of them already have pumpkins and other halloween decorations outside and I'm convinced that as soon as they take them down, we'll be into Christmas decorations. I really will have to begin taking photographs and posting them on FB.
Sears customer services are trying to chase up the final bed-payment. Having a phone makes a difference because we didn't have to physically leg-it to the store-yahooo.
Well folks, I'm off to get my breakfast...actually, a second cup of coffee first.
Love to all,
Lxxx