I have just found a group on Facebook that left me appalled.  It is called “Scrap the free bus passes for pensioners”.  It has 832 members who are blethering on about why the tax payer should pay for OAPs to travel one stop on a bus.  They have even submitted a petition to Downing Street!!!  I really hope that Downing Street laugh in the face of it.  THEY ARE OAPs!!!!  They can’t walk very well you selfish b******ds!!

Here’s an idea.  How about banning chavs who get pregnant at 16 (and predominantly use the busses to transport their 5 kids to and from Wilkos) from getting ‘free’ (or seriously reduced) houses because they claim that they cannot possibly work because of the cost of childcare??  And it is these same people who are claiming that despite their free houses and free benefits, that they shouldn’t have to pay for bus fares!!!  I am enraged.

If you are on jobseeker’s allowance, you have to produce evidence every week of which jobs you are applying for in order to get your cash.  If you are a single mum aged 17 with 2 kids, you just get given the money.  If, like me, you don’t want to live off jobseeker’s allowance or an incapacity benefit and so start your own business, budgeting carefully and having to eat Lidl 19p supernoodles (without the flavour sachet because it makes you ill) for lunch, you get naff all in the way of help.  I am not complaining about my situation, I believe it to be a privileged one.  What I am complaining about is 832 idiots, who resent the elderly.  These are people who have brought us up and been through a lot of things for our sake.

Why is it that we can be so pig-headed that when they get to an age where they need a little of our help for a change, we have to make a fuss over it?  After following an old man round the inner ring the other day (he was driving a red rover metro) at 8mph (no joke), I watched with horror as we approached a red light and remember thinking to myself “I reckon he hasn’t seen that”.  Sure enough he sailed straight through it at 8mph and I beeped my horn frantically making flashing light motions with my hand.  He didn’t even hear my horn, he carried on staring straight ahead.  Mercifully he didn’t get hit, but I would MUCH rather pay for him to be on a bus than on the road!!