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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 17, 2024 17:58:47 GMT
Good to hear from you mossie.
Take your time.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 17, 2024 18:11:55 GMT
I'm glad that things are improving, Mossie. You know that none of us have forgotten you.
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Post by htmb on Apr 17, 2024 18:20:59 GMT
Wishing you all the best, Mossie. So glad to hear you’re doing better. As was said, take your time.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 17, 2024 22:04:17 GMT
Run your motors at low speed. The Mosquito will take off soon and we look forward to hearing the deafening noise of it taking off !
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Post by mich64 on Apr 17, 2024 22:06:28 GMT
Hello Mossie! Best wishes in your continued recovery.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 17, 2024 23:29:26 GMT
I hope this is the rightpface for this. Any place you are on anyport is the right place, Mossie! Very sorry to hear that you have been under the weather, but so happy that you're recovering. Thank you so much for letting everyone know how you're doing.
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Post by questaredux on Apr 18, 2024 12:36:26 GMT
Come on Mossie, you and I are supposed to start the revolution, remember? I wish you a strong and happy recovery.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 18, 2024 16:58:07 GMT
Oh my goodness, seeing you Online again Mossie is just like me receiving an email to let me know I am now officially a British Citizen and will receive my passport in a few hours. It is a great feeling.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 23, 2024 17:36:56 GMT
Missing you Mossie. I hope that you feel better soon xxx
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 23, 2024 18:06:22 GMT
On Friday I popped into town for a few bits. I caught the bus home. A passenger got very shouty at the driver. The rest of the passengers tried not to catch his eye as the madman got louder and swearier. It was quite scary. The man insisted that he had paid his £1.80 bus fare (he hadn't). The driver was very quiet and calm but the loony was storming up and down the bus, thumping the driver's screen. After the driver said that he was calling the police the chap threw some money at the driver and he started the bus.
As we carried on with our journey the man carried on ranting and swearing..telling us that he loves England, he's a british citizen, he hates muslims (the driver was Indian and probably Hindi) and proceeded to say awfully racist things..the loony was not white and had quite a thick accent but I don't know where he was from...
Anyway the ranting got very loud. I was sitting at the front of the bus with my shopping trolley...with the mad bloke standing and sitting to my right a few feet away...I was waiting for him to produce some sort of weapon because he really did sound unhinged. Against my wishes my face started crying. I was staring out of the window trying not to catch anybody's eye..no sobbing or anything but lots of tears and a trembling lower lip! Stupid!
Anyway, all of a sudden (after about 20 minutes of shouting) the man sat down and started offering around a bag of sweets. It was very odd. I managed to pull myself together and mopped up my face discretely. When I stood to get off the bus the chap grabbed my hand and kissed it. I said 'you scared me' or words to that effect...he looked at me blankly. The driver was lovely and asked me if I was ok...I told him to be careful and he said 'it happens'.
So that was last week's adventure....
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Post by bjd on Apr 23, 2024 18:11:32 GMT
That sounds horrible, Cheery. I feel sorry for the bus driver too, especially since it was obviously not the first time.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2024 18:16:36 GMT
People often think that some of the movies that I go to see are too extreme, but this proves that real life can be even scarier. Sorry that this happened to you, Cheery.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 23, 2024 18:20:05 GMT
Thanks both, I was a bit shaken up but I'm over it now.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2024 18:48:07 GMT
That sound awful for everyone stuck in that situation, Cheery! I have to wonder why the driver didn't put the guy off immediately, although maybe he thought that would make things worse.
Re: the crying -- not stupid, but a response your body made to an occurrence that didn't make sense. It happens to people quite often in earthquakes. They're not crying because they're specifically frightened, but their bodies are reacting to reality suddenly being thrown out of whack.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 23, 2024 19:42:38 GMT
That’s horrible Cheery, not nice for anybody.
Hope you’re ok. xx
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 23, 2024 20:06:14 GMT
Cheery, you do have backbone and crying is not such an unusual emotion. It was upsetting and you probably felt powerless and fearful. Had it been that someone was injured would you cry? I doubt it. You'd have known what to do and felt more in control I'm sure. Crying just shows you are human and not frozen emotionally with disbelief of the situation.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 24, 2024 8:45:14 GMT
Awful situation. The driver seems a nice chap offering some words of comfort to you after being abused himself.
I witnessed once a similar situation in the metro in Paris and the bloke was aggressive and clearly under drugs. You cannot talk to a guy in these situations.
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