bus stop incident
Not my story, but a good one, nonetheless...
I used to work in an office where one of my colleagues told me her tale of woe.
She is in a bus shelter, along with many other people, waiting for the bus to arrive. It's an early summer morning, so she's wearing a nice red summery dress, high heels and underwear that matches her dress in hue (you'll see the relevance shortly). Tired, as one is in the morning, she leans back against the window in the bus shelter, only to realise that the glass isn't there as she falls backwards through the window, into the road.
Her high heels somehow manage to dig into the path surface, so she falls onto the road, banging her head, cuts the back of her legs on the remains of the glass in the windowpane and is completely unable to do anything as her feet are embedded in the tarmac. And to top this her dress has flown over her head, showing her nice matching pants to the whole queue. They very helpfully piss themselves laughing at the sight of this - because, well, it's funny.
So she's lying in the road, in a lot of pain, completely unable to recover herself in any sense, when a bus, not scheduled for this stop, halts, the driver gets out, lifts her back into the shelter and gets back into his bus and drives away. She's left standing in the bus shelter, utterly mortified and can see the rest of the queue just sniggering away.
Her bus turns up, she gets on, goes right to back of it and watches a busload of people sitting in their seats, shaking with laughter.
When she gets to work, she bursts into tears, understandably and actually had to go to hospital to get her injuries sorted. As she said later she could see the funny side, but not at the time.
(thebadangel, Fri 26 Jun 2009, 17:20, 1 reply)

The bastards.
Seriously... even if it was funny and I laughed a bit, I still would've helped her up. People are horrible.
(xanthine, Sun 28 Jun 2009, 3:38, closed)