Story in Reply.
Got a bus back from Wales yesterday, and was stuck behind a pair of the most annoying people possible.
( Cawl, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:04, 12 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

16:30: Coach from Wales to London.
Our handsome young hero, Kaol is sitting in the aisle-seat, next to Non-Descript Window-Seat Welshman.
The seat in front of Kaol is currently holding Noisy, Fidgety Seven-Year-Old Brat.
Seated next to The Brat is his Stupid Mother.

16:35: Stupid Mother receives phone call. Brat is whining. Welshman and Kaol fall asleep.

17:30: Kaol wakes up as The Brat trips over in the aisle and starts bawling. Stupid Mother carries on her phone conversation, oblivious.
Welshman is still asleep.

18:30: The Brat has now bumped into Kaol's leg fifteen or twenty times as he sprints up and down the aisle, shouting. Stupid Mother is still on the phone. Welshman is awake, looking annoyed at having to listen to The Brat shouting. Kaol turns his music up louder.

19:30: Stupid Mother is now arguing loudly on the phone. The Brat is crying because he fell over as the coach stopped at some traffic lights. Kaol and the Welshmen exchange annoyed glances.

19:45: London Victoria Coach Station: Kaol is standing up, getting his bag from the over-head storage. The Brat runs into him, again. His fist clenches, but he does not strike the child. Stupid Mother is now off the phone, and notices her darling son collide with Kaol's leg.
SM: "Whoops, I'm sorry about that!"
Kaol: "No, I'm sorry."
SM: *looks confused*
Kaol: "I've only got to put up with your brat for another thirty seconds. You've gotta deal with him for the rest of your life. Have fun."

The Welshman shoots Kaol a grin and a wink.
Kaol leaves the coach, for a much-needed smoke.
( Cawl, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:04, Reply)

Ahhh public transport
where we can all get together and remind ourselves that hell IS other people.

Nice retort.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:08, Reply)

Tremendous
Why can't people control their kids in some sort of responsible fashion?

I think I'd have been having words with the woman earlier though, or at the very least tripping up the kid deliberately.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:10, Reply)

See, if I'd've tripped the kid up,
There would've been even more crying.
I think I got sufficient satisfaction from this way.
Although it would've been better to burn the kid to death in front of the Stupid Mother.
She wouldn't have noticed though, in all likelihood.
( Cawl, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:12, Reply)

If you'd timed it properly
to coincide with deceleration of the bus, you could have increased the chances of the kid knocking itself out when you tripped it.

Of course, there's always the danger that the resultant cheering from the other bus passengers would have awakened it again.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:18, Reply)

I'm upset
no one got punched in the face
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:08, Reply)

Would I be wrong in saying
I'd think it a result if the child was sent to a 'special' school, was raped and then committed suicide?

I would?

*heads for the hills in Honda Accord*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:21, Reply)

Ouch...
I'm not getting involved in that one.
From personal experience, Captain Placid is an absolutely top bloke.
I'm not going to comment on the post.
( Cawl, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:25, Reply)

Hoogie, surely?

( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 18 May 2009, 12:29, Reply)

Nope.
Incorrect.
Hoogie is honda-man.
( Cawl, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:30, Reply)

Now THERE'S a sentence
that would get me to the cinema.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:32, Reply)

While I love public transport and not having to drive myself
It would be so much better if not for other people.

Like on Saturday - would you take your 6 month old kid on a four hour bus journey at 1am? I just feel pity for those who had to share the plane with it. That's that those hatches in the windows of the bus are for...

Excellent putdown *files for future, 5 seconds too late usage*
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:54, Reply)