highlandsflyer
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Being the designated driver after today's festivities, I was into Inverness dropping off at the pub. Passing Tesco's as we left, I popped in to get some bobs. After going though the tills a 'yoof' stepped back and almost knocked my trolley over.
Instead of moving and apologising he remained in the pose he had adopted, somewhat like a hoody wearing tripod, not even bothering to look around to see who or what he had backed into.
At that I offered, "Mind yourself, you wee prick."
To which his friend, not he, responded, "There are more polite ways to respond.."
I countered, "I agree, but I left it long enough for your friend to be polite."
The lad who was talking on behalf of a fairly large group was maybe 18, and I was quite impressed by his response to be honest.
As I walked out of the doors two lads approached me, and I reckoned they were attached to the group at that moment.
"I think you were way too polite; I would have dragged him out and battered him!", he advised.
I laughed, and told him I am nearly fifty, and wouldn't have made thirty if I had behaved like that.
Really impressed, because here we are castigating the young in the media and such, yet they react benignly to provocation, and express support for an individual clearly not in their peer group.
Just made me smile all the way home.
Until that is, I saw the cheeky c@
walking alone, swung in with my passenger door open, knocking him to the ground, and threw him in the back. He is sat under the byre now, tied to a chair in a pit, listening to Marc Almond's Tainted Love on a loop and watching QVC. eyelids propped open.
That'll learn him. I say! I say, that'll learn him!
Instead of moving and apologising he remained in the pose he had adopted, somewhat like a hoody wearing tripod, not even bothering to look around to see who or what he had backed into.
At that I offered, "Mind yourself, you wee prick."
To which his friend, not he, responded, "There are more polite ways to respond.."
I countered, "I agree, but I left it long enough for your friend to be polite."
The lad who was talking on behalf of a fairly large group was maybe 18, and I was quite impressed by his response to be honest.
As I walked out of the doors two lads approached me, and I reckoned they were attached to the group at that moment.
"I think you were way too polite; I would have dragged him out and battered him!", he advised.
I laughed, and told him I am nearly fifty, and wouldn't have made thirty if I had behaved like that.
Really impressed, because here we are castigating the young in the media and such, yet they react benignly to provocation, and express support for an individual clearly not in their peer group.
Just made me smile all the way home.
Until that is, I saw the cheeky c@
walking alone, swung in with my passenger door open, knocking him to the ground, and threw him in the back. He is sat under the byre now, tied to a chair in a pit, listening to Marc Almond's Tainted Love on a loop and watching QVC. eyelids propped open. That'll learn him. I say! I say, that'll learn him!
