aiyar i how hate old aunties on the bus. they're the most annoying because they think that JUST BECAUSE they're old, they get to do anything.
so i was on the bus this morning, with a pile of work from last night's press conference in a large paperbag and my own large-ish handbag in tow, sitting next to the window on the bus.
this oldish lady, who was still quite agile but had a whole head of silver, came and sat next to me. well, actually, before she sat next to me she hit the seat really hard with her hand, you know, the thing old people do to make the seat not so hot just in case they get piles. anyway, while she was doing that she gave me this really dirty look, like, "aiyoh, you sit until so hot, how I sit?"
but thats okay. people do that all the time.
then she sat down and started taking apart this sweet wrapper. once she got the sweet into her mouth what did she do? throw the wrapper no, not in the bin, no, not on the ground, but directly on my shoes.
okay fine, she probably didn't mean for it to land on my shoes, but it did.
i shook my foot and let the wrapper fall onto the ground.
then, she opens ANOTHER sweet (like, hello? old people tend to get BO-GEI) and this time where does she throw the wrapper?
RIGHT INTO MY PAPERBAG OF WORK.
we both saw it go into my paperbag. i looked at her, and she just looked back at me. and blinked.
nevermind. my stop comes and when i try to get off the bus, she gives me this horrified, incredulous look, as if my "excuse me" was actually "HEY! i just got a sex change and have my severed peepee in a ziploc in my pocket. would you like to see it?"
GRRRRR.
after she gets over her shock (over what i don't know), she moves... her shoulders. SHE MOVES HER SHOULDERS! she didn't get up, she didn't do the slide-knees-into-aisle thing, just just moved her shoulders so that her back was facing me, and her legs were still in the seat.
the bus driver had to wait for me as i tried (and failed) to get past her without hitting her with my many large bags.
i don't know if the stares i got from the other passengers behind was because i had held everybody up, or because they were disapproving of my paperbag hitting her on the shoulder, causing her to emit a really loud "HAIYOH!"
all i knew was that i alighted the bus as quickly as my bags and heels would allow me, and only realised after i got off that i had totally forgotten to tap my ezlink card on the reader.
thanks, really.