Just an hour or so ago, I was on the bus back from uni, sitting next to a overly dressed welsh girl who smelled of melon and squash and enjoying my tunes bumpin from a 5-year old iPod. Now, on many buses, theres a section in the front or the middle where you can place bags or groceries. During this bus ride (and many previous bus rides), we hit a bump in the road while making a turn. This caused one of the grocery bags in the section to get knocked around, which dropped a thing of yogurt onto the floor of the bus.
There were about 6 people standing next to that section, glancing at the yogurt on the ground, and then looking back up and as if nothing happened.
Even the person who owned the yogurt and the bags of groceries couldn't find it in their heart to go pick up the yogurt off the floor.
I was slightly annoyed by this. How can 6 mothafuckas be standing right there and not pick that up and put it back in the bag? They weren't paralyzed, they weren't driving the bus, they weren't even listening to music.
But theres more.
We get to the student village. The bus driver parks. Everyone starts to exit the vehicle. What do they do? These fools walk OVER the yogurt. They didn't even have to look at it to make sure not to step on the shit. That move just told me that everyone on the bus SAW the yogurt there and planned their exit accordingly.
I was one of the few that was in the back, so I assumed that the yogurt belonged to someone in the long row behind me. It was my turn to get up and exit. Now, read carefully here. Before I left the bus, I bent down, and did the unthinkable. I PICKED UP THE YOGURT AND PUT IT BACK IN THE BAG. *GASP*
Are people wrapped up in themselves so much that they can't even pick up a yogurt from the floor? I know everyone heard that shit fall and everyone saw it right in the middle of the pathway, yet no one bothered to pick it up. Everyone chose to ignore it and let the person who owned it come and pick it up.
I know it seems like I'm taking something so little and making a big deal out of it, but its just something that annoys me and I had to get off my chest.
Not just this incident, but many others, where people just see shit happen and ignore it. 'It's not my problem, so why should I get involved?'
I guess I'm also annoyed that people do 'charitable' deeds only when its required of them.
Bah.
I could go on and on, but my hunger calls.
I still love the world and I love people, but yo.....
5 comments:
you did good.
i am a lazy man who would not pick it up. this one 아저씨 at the korean restaurant on Western we used to go to yelled at me once for not picking up a paper towel that i dropped in the bathroom. that memory has stuck with me to this day...3 years later...haha. on that note, i still would not pick up the yogurt unless i were toward the end and nobody else did.
aw, Donald. I know how terrifying it is when Ah-juh-shee's yell at you. I had Ah-jim-mah's yell at me when I was 4 years old and I still remember their large round faces staring down at me for doing nothing wrong. I'm tearing right now, actually. It was traumatic.
Wow. You did do good, as Wendy states. And I'm just imagining the tension in the bus as people nonchalantly look purposefully not at the ground where the yogurt is, and yet are curious to see who will finally pick it up. Poor yogurt. But, seriously, if that was my yogurt, I'd pick it up immediately. WTH was the owner doing just staring at it? Jessica's wondering (I just read out part of the post to her, it was so funny, as I find all your posts), "Was the bus so bumpy people didn't want to get up?"
haha.
i'd have eaten the shit.
hmm. i think i have some rolling about in the fridge, that i have not yet had the heart to pick up and put in my bag the stomach.
i've decided that despite all laziness, i should pick it up.
(note to self)
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