Like most days, I had to get the bus to work today. I do have a drivers licence but with parking, traffic, cost etc. it’s a hell of a lot cheaper, and quicker, for me to get the bus to work.. anyway I digress.. back to the bus. As many people observe, the front of the bus is for the elderly, single mums with the pram and a tonne of shopping and the occasional fat fella whos to big to fit down the isle. This leaves the normal people to occupy the middle section of the bus and the back of the bus reserved for “teenagers”.
The bus I was on is what I call “the scally wagon”. You can guarantee that the back of this bus is occupied with scouse chavs aged between. 12-17 heading into town to enjoy a pie and the places of interest in Wigan.
So I get on the bus, its been raining, the bus is steamed up, its quite busy and the only free seat on the whole bus is the second one from the back row – and yes, its chav central at the back. I sit down surrounded by the scouse accent bellowing out in my ear hole. The girl behind me was on the phone to her “mayyytee” and her two males friends where trying to get in, on the conversation. By now I should point out, I am not the biggest fan of the scouse accent – or chavs.
Then just to really get on my wick, one of the lads gets his phone out and starts to play some “music”, and I use the word music loosely. The thumpty-dumpty song was noise. It might not have been too bad had he got a phone that a decent speaker on it, but it was just awful.
Thankfully I had my MP3 player with me, which I had lost a few week ago and had only recently found that morning. It was a blessing. I popped the earphones in… “turned it up to 11” and then pressed play. Thank god for Mark Knopfler. The first song to play was Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing.
The sound of Mark making his guitar sing drowned out the chavs and there noise. I sat there enjoying the steamy cramped bus ride into town, which indecently took 20min longer than it should have because the council decided to do road works. All I could think was, “T.F.I Friday!!”.
