Sunday, March 30, 2014

Don't bring me down whingers!

 
On my last day I finally got to the famous blue lagoon.  And yes it really is that blue in real life.  In the morning I went down to wait for the bus.  I waited a little while and then just as I was wondering whether it was late or I was early it turned up.  We stopped to pick up some more people and they got on all huffy pointing at their watches and complaining.  Then a woman already on the bus started complaining about how many stops we were making, yelling at the driver and carrying on.  I kind of looked at her like 'WTF are you carrying on about?', she caught my look so switched her whinging to loud whispering in German to her husband.  Then we got to the last stop and more whingers got on.  They were all complaining about the bus being late and abusing the driver and then when he ignored them someone said 'oh god, he doesn't even speak English!'  Three points for you lady:
  • If you knew anything about Iceland you would know that practically all Icelanders are bi-lingual
  • You're in Iceland why should he speak English anyway
  • You're on holidays, just settle the fuck down or if your schedule is so important get a bloody taxi!
But these people kept on and on, the girl sitting in front of me put her headphones on and I was like damn why didn't I bring mine.  After 15 min they were still going and I finally lost it and was like 'OH MY GOD! Enough of the whinging!'  Which was good because it stopped them yelling at the driver, but bad because then I copped it.  Some pompous English dick told me that they had 'every right to whinge' and I told him they were all carrying on about nothing so then one of the women said 'Oh great, we've even got the backpackers on board.  Just shut up.'  So I was about to lose my shit and absolutely rip into her, but then I figured they'd already ruined my day enough so I just ignored them and they finally shut up.
But then, when I got off the bus the girl sitting in front of me was standing there waiting for me.  When I saw her I was like 'Gee, glad that rides over.'  And she started laughing and said, 'They were horrible.  I was so happy when you said something to them.'  Me too, because now I had a Blue Lagoon buddy!  The end.



 

1 comment:

Anne said...

Glad you spoke up Kelly...some People are the pits! Whinging could nearly be an Olympic Sport! A well done Kelly!