GRANNY ATTACK
Had a long and tedious wait for the bus this afternoon. Was grumpy cause pain meant I couldn’t focus on my book and had been waiting for a while (Melbourne public transport works well N/S but E/W sucks big and even worst on a Sunday afternoon). But really is wasn’t if I was rushing to get home and the sun was nice.
A car sped past and I saw something shoot out one of the back windows - my eyes were locked onto it - at first I thought it was a big Macca’s drink cup, and in almost comic book fashion, it arched and then slammed into the leg of a granny waiting for the bus. It bounced off her and landed in the middle of the road. Saw it was one of those squishy balls. I checked the granny was ok (which I think was her second fright for the day - a punk rushing up to her) and she said she was, but didn’t know what happened. I pointed to the ball and told her it had just come out of car going past.
A couple of things have gone through my head. The first is naturally anger - even if it was a squishy ball - senior citizens can fall over in a light breeze and hips crack like corn chips. Also, if anyone had done that to my grandmother I would have skinned them alive. Although knowing my family my Ohma would have caught it on the full and pelted it back.
The second was that it was a pretty remarkable shot, the car was going fairly fast and to hit her took an accurate shot. Though now been thinking maybe they were aiming for her head or body not her leg, which send me back to anger again.
And if I am totally honest the final thing is - in a sick way it was fucking funny. The granny didn’t actually get hurt and it was so much like a cartoon except it was missing the overly loud sound effect, just had a thud.
Anyway I guess that is one of the things with public transport - you see weird shit.
A car sped past and I saw something shoot out one of the back windows - my eyes were locked onto it - at first I thought it was a big Macca’s drink cup, and in almost comic book fashion, it arched and then slammed into the leg of a granny waiting for the bus. It bounced off her and landed in the middle of the road. Saw it was one of those squishy balls. I checked the granny was ok (which I think was her second fright for the day - a punk rushing up to her) and she said she was, but didn’t know what happened. I pointed to the ball and told her it had just come out of car going past.
A couple of things have gone through my head. The first is naturally anger - even if it was a squishy ball - senior citizens can fall over in a light breeze and hips crack like corn chips. Also, if anyone had done that to my grandmother I would have skinned them alive. Although knowing my family my Ohma would have caught it on the full and pelted it back.
The second was that it was a pretty remarkable shot, the car was going fairly fast and to hit her took an accurate shot. Though now been thinking maybe they were aiming for her head or body not her leg, which send me back to anger again.
And if I am totally honest the final thing is - in a sick way it was fucking funny. The granny didn’t actually get hurt and it was so much like a cartoon except it was missing the overly loud sound effect, just had a thud.
Anyway I guess that is one of the things with public transport - you see weird shit.