Yeah yeah, hassle me; arent u CLEVER!

[chocoBug]

I get the same bus home every day. theres always the same ass on it too; i dont know if he's drunk or if hes just one of those REALLY annoying people. He's kinda middle aged, dresses smartly and he always INSISTS on talking to whichever hapless girl he decides to sit next to. my turn woot!

sometimes i dont mind talking to strangers on the bus, some can be a good laugh. but it was this guys arrogant attitude which made me want to beat him with his own cane.

AG: asshole guy
Me: poor hapless me

AG: *clicks his fingers in my face* have you heard of shakespeare?
Me: of course i have.
AG: Ah yes I bet you dont know which one had the three witches within its well written and famous pages . Do you know? Yes or no? *clicks fingers in my face again*
Me: *in pissed off tone* Macbeth obviously.
AG: Ah no, it was Hamlet! I bet you didnt know that. Who is your favourite singer? Ever heard of stevie wonder? What a guy. Yes or no, yes or no? *clicks fingers again*
Me: Erm, it WAS macbeth. *Everybody* knows so.
AG: Ah - a common misconception. Dont hold onto that handle bar, the door will fly open. Come on now *clicks fingers*

I had been holding onto the handrail at the side of my seat which couldnt have opened the exit door and quite frankly, was bloody annoyed i was being spoken to like i was a non intelligent child by some weirdo when i had graduated with a science degree 2 days earlier.

Me: Dont patronise me and talk to me like I'm an idiot, pal.

And i step over him to sit further away. Prat. Then, a young guy half way down the bus turns round and starts shouting at the guy that he was a dirty old man for chatting up lassies. I felt kinda bad for him then . . . he wasnt trying to chat me up...just being a patronising git s'all !!

[Andara Bledin]

Quoth chocoBug

He's kinda middle aged, dresses smartly and he always INSISTS on talking to whichever hapless girl he decides to sit next to.
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Then, a young guy half way down the bus turns round and starts shouting at the guy that he was a dirty old man for chatting up lassies. I felt kinda bad for him then . . . he wasnt trying to chat me up...just being a patronising git s'all !!

If he's always sitting next to young women and staring in on his little patronization trip, then he probably is a dirty old man to some degree. Just because he's incapable of being even remotely charming, doesn't mean he isn't actually trying.

And I'd have told him to stop snapping his fingers at me like I was some bitch who was refusing to heel.

^-.-^

[blas]

Your bus guy is the same as the random yoohoos out in public who try to chat me up when I'm alone or with a girlfriend of the same size as me.

It's super annoying. Call me snobby or bitchy if you want, but I absolutely hate it when I'm sitting on a bench waiting for a dinner date with a friend, or smoking outside chatting on my phone, or when I'm out with a girlfriend around the same size as me, and these random creepy (usually older, but not always) men just have to try to chat me/us up. It's almost always some scuzzball who looks like he just crawled out of a sewer with that hungry look in his eyes.

If it were a stranger who was commenting on the weather, the store we were at, ANYTHING else.....if it were a pleasant old man walking by saying "Hello, ladies!" or something like that, it'd be totally different.

Edit to add: Whenever my boyfriend is around, or one of my taller/bigger girlfriends are with me....they seem to stay away. I'm so sick and tired of men thinking small girls are easy prey.

[tropicsgoddess]

Ugh..I would've ripped him several new ones quick with his arrogant, patronizing remarks. He sure was a S-M-R-T ass.

[Camry178]

I always have my earphones with me and ipod nice and loud so I can ignore all the crazies around me when I'm on public transportation.

Had that been me he was snapping his fingers at, I would have definitely cursed him out.

[edible_hat]

It's also a common misconception that Julius Ceaser is about ancient Romans, it's actually Sonnet #34.

[XCashier]

Quoth chocoBug

Then, a young guy half way down the bus turns round and starts shouting at the guy that he was a dirty old man for chatting up lassies. I felt kinda bad for him then . . . he wasnt trying to chat me up...just being a patronising git s'all !!

That is how some guys chat up women...some jerks genuinely believe women are stupid and they need a Big Strong Smart Men like him to edumacate them.

Some jackass did that to me, he might end up with those snapping fingers crammed up his nostrils.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Always call it The Scottish Play...

[BookstoreEscapee]

Quoth Lace Neil Singer

Always call it The Scottish Play...

Hehe....

'K, it's been a while since I read any Shakespeare, but I do believe the scene with the witches in Macbeth is the very first one! How does one...er, "misconcept" () which play it's in?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Proof is right here, professor.

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/macbeth.1.1.html

SCENE I. A desert place.

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches

First Witch

When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Second Witch

When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.

Third Witch

That will be ere the set of sun.