I don’t know whether this is true of other parts of the UK, but I feel as though London is a very angry place at the moment. I have noticed a fair few bad tempered people about and can’t say that I am always of the sweetest disposition at the moment. Even G, who is a very good natured person, has got from home from work a couple of times recently having nearly committed commuter rage.
Yesterday we went out for a walk in the local area and I was this man and woman walking along and they saw a car being driven by a woman with a man in the passenger seat parking in a disabled bay. He shouted over to them and said they didn’t look disabled. The man got out of the car and started to shout “are you disabled?”. He squared up to the pedestrian and then gave him a bit of a head butt. The other man then took off his jacket and glasses and punched the first chap. The two women then got involved and finally managed to separate them. The man got back in the car and he was bleeding and then had to be restrained by his wife from getting back out of the car and going back to deal with the other man. After a few minutes they drive off in the car.
G and I were sort of surprised by what happened, although interestingly G had missed everything before the punch was thrown and so thought the pedestrian was the bad guy in it, whereas from what I had seen I thought it was the man in the car. There used to be an advert for The Guardian (I think) which showed a yobbish looking man running along the street and you start to draw your conclusions about what was going on and then they show it from another angle and you see that what he was actually doing was running to push someone out of the way because something was about to fall on them from a building site. Sometimes it can all be about perspective.
Anyway, somehow neither G nor I were surprised by what we saw and thought that it just summed up how things seem to be in London at the moment. It makes you wonder if it is worth challenging other people and if relatively minor incidents might actually lead to entirely unintended consequences.
4 comments:
Dont get involved, it could get you killed.
Dial 999 instead.
Kahless - Believe me, I didn't get involved. I would have dialled 999 if I had thought it necessary but the way it played out meant that wasn't needed. I did contact the police afterwards though to explain what I had seen in case either party reported it. The police came back to me and said that no-one had been in touch with them, which they were surprised about, but there was nothing they could do.
I've noticed a change in people to but its in a more selfish way to push others into negative reactions. I got such a push today and ended up telling someone 'I feel they are taking the living piss out of me' and 'I they are dising me'.Yes I used the word dis. I look forward to my suspension once a complaint is made and investigated. Would I do it again yes the individual was lucky I didn't say more than I did......Joys!
spudgy - Oh dear, it sounds as though things got a bit out of hand. I hope things get sorted and you don't get into trouble.
I suspect you are not alone in that sort of thing happening.
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