Commuter Tales #4 — Quit your wine’ing!

How me going out of my way to help an elderly lady got me scorned

I have patience for the old lady that has incorrectly plugged her headphones into her iPad and is watching the Lion King on full volume on the train. Where as, the chap that plays Grime on loudspeaker on the tube I have less patience for.

So, when I sat opposite an elderly lady on a delayed train home and she was talking to her son on loud speaker (albeit pressed to her ear) I didn’t mind.

I soon learned that she was on her way to visit a friend and her son was explaining to her that because the train was delayed she would likely miss her connecting train and would subsequently have to get a taxi for the final leg of her journey instead. He was trying to get her to explain to him when the train would leave and she kept repeating the scheduled departure time, which was of course incorrect. So, I piped up and she immediately handed over her phone to me to explain to her son.

(Pretty big conundrum, do I take the phone and talk to her son on loudspeaker or do I put it onto normal mode? I went with loudspeaker. He thanked me and the call ended.)

I asked the lady where she was heading and as fate would have it she was heading to my village. Result!