Wednesday, December 13, 2006

'i'm not on the bus'

i saw a lollipop lady chatting away on her mobile phone today as she was accompanying children across the road. surely there must be some law against that kind of thing? if you're not allowed to be in charge of a motorcar while on a mobile surely you should avoid using one when handling a lollipop and the lives of nippers? mind you, at least the kiddies could see that she was talking into her phone (typical comments: 'I'm crossing the road, innit', 'yeah, just crossing the road', 'alright! in the road', 'not much, just crossing the road'). imagine if she'd been hands free – she would have looked like a looney chatting away to herself as she went backwards and forwards, no doubt scaring the little 'uns into jay walking a few yards up the road. i tried to give her a disapproving look as i saw myself across the road (on her crossing) but i was obviously doing a convincing invisible man impression as she looked right through me.
I'm going to practise giving people dirty looks at work just to make sure I still can.

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