If you were sitting at a bus stop in the pouring rain....

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You need to grow up chewbacca and have a bit of a laugh.

I’m sure chewbacca laughs at things she finds funny

Gonegirl Maybe just the wrong forum to start a tongue in cheek thread? You are asking if you are being unreasonable on AIBU....maybe if you had posted on the 'chat' forum, the responses would have been different? Just a thought.

For the record, I don't really think I would have been offended - maybe would laughed and asked him for a lift - as someone else suggested?

Nothing tongue in cheek. Just wish I hadn't started it at all with you miserable lot.

Goodnight.

And, as I've said before, he was going the wrong fucking way!

Not that I would have got in a car with him.

Lots of language on Gn goes over my head.
I'm very often mystified why people are behaving the way they do.

Honestly gg, I'm not on the same page, so sorry your so upset!

Oh! OK so you WERE asking seriously if you were being unreasonable then?

So the majority said they thought you were?

What is miserable about us all then? You asked and were told what people thought.

No need for bad language t.b.h. I wouldn't seriously expect to actually 'get' a lift from him - no matter which way he was going bahaha...

I have no idea what you are talking about. Too long winded for me.

I'm not upset namsnanny. Just mystified.

Ok.

I don't actually know how I'd feel about it because I didn't experience it. But gonegirl was there and I assume there was something, not just about the words but about the manner in which they were said, that she found patronising and annoying.

I think if I were sitting at a bus stop in the rain (and it was possibly a bit cold too - and I might have been waiting for some time) I might feel a bit miffed at someone sitting in his warm, dry car finding the sight of three older people in a bus shelter in the rain entertaining.

A few years ago..in Proserpine Queensland....there were three men,probably in their 80s,chatting &laughing....I asked them if I could take a photo of them..they were flattered,the photograph is beautiful..one of my favourites...memories of the lovely chat I had with the three guys...

Glad someone gets it Eloethan. Yes, it was cold and bleak and I had been waiting twenty minutes. No one was feeling exactly chipper.

If I was sitting at the bus stop for 20 mins in pouring rain I would probably already be in a grumpy mood. I am thinking of writing to First Bus and asking them why, if they obviously can not keep to the timetable they have published, why don't they rewrite it to reflect reality. Then I could sit in our warm coffee bar at work for 20 mins instead of sitting, or standing, waiting for buses that just don't turn up. So the feeling that some idiot in a warm car found my discomfit amusing would not go down well.

Our buses only run every half hour. And then they're crowded, and usually people younger than me are sitting in the older persons' seats. I hate buses, but needs must. I can't ride my bike so well these days. Legs just don't want to do it. Sigh.

Baggs, people ARE quite capable of being unintentionally offensive. Doesn't mean they meant to be rude but they are.

Yes, I get that. Perhaps I wasn't clear. I don't think it is always someone else's fault if one feels offended. And I think some offence that one feels is someone else's fault, particularly if it was unintentional, should be shrugged off. Especially if the offending person is challenged and says sorry but they hadn't realised.... Depends on what it is, of course.

I sit on a sea wall crash barrier to wait for the bus that takes me home from work. If someone driving by said it made a good picture I'd probably smile and then shrug. Why would I care what some random person thought if it didn't do me any harm?

I think the word "offended" and all its relatives are overused.

Missing the point there Baggs.

Seems so. More shrugs.

I have shrugged it off now btw. It was three days ago.

Thing is, even if the person who called out wouldn't have done so if it had been three forty year olds.... so what? Old people, like babies, can look cute. They can also look like grumpy sods. As can babies.

?‍? << tin hat.

And both those conditions make good pictures ?

As usual with GN its a bit of a storm in a bus shelter teacup !!

It's been a while since you popped in to demonstrate your superior approach to life and make someone feel as if they are being over-sensitive and foolish baggs.