Had a perfectly fine day at uni today until the delights of the Pakenham line made themselves known to me.
First, after I'd dozed off having taken paracetamol to stave off a migraine, I was awoken by someone burping loudly behind me. No 'excuse me', they just looked around proudly having disgusted a few people.
Then, at Noble Park, a bunch of schoolkids got on. I didn't really mind this, besides the fact that the migraine was straining at the paracetamol chains and the volume was much higher than before.
Then, as I attempted to doze off again for the rest of the trip, some little kid started bellowing at the top of his lungs. He was only accompanied by his ~10 year old sister. No parents were visible. He came and sat behind me, and his sister followed. Still fine.
"BLARFDGLSKDJFSLSDKJDFINCOMPREHENSIBLEGIBBERISHBLAHAHAHBLABLAH" like a knife edge through my skull. Oww--ww...
Then he started tapping the back of my neck. I felt like saying "Please do not do that," but given neither the boy or his sister appeared to speak any english I felt it was useless.
Perhaps he was attempting to feel my hair- young children often try to do that, given that it's quite bright red naturally. But he got very rough, progressing up to little punches until i turned and threw a dirty look, which did nothing.
"MOREBELLOWINGATTOPOFLUNGS!" coupled with kicks to the back of my chair which on the already uncomfortable Siemens Nexas trains was quite painful too.
Honestly, if a child cannot be restrained when they're doing that to STRANGERS, then something is wrong with the parenting of the child.
They got off a stop before me, and ah... blessed quiet. I got off and attempted to catch the bus. 28 minutes late, when I asked where it had been, the driver said 'No, this one is 5 minutes early'... so that means that I had a phantom bus apparently.
Finally got on the bus and some dickhead TAFE scumbag said 'Hey ranga, do you play world of warcraft?' i was exhausted and headachey so what i felt like saying was 'Hey bogan, do you have any prospects later in life? No is my answer to both of the questions' but what actually happened was that i simply shook my head.
Exhausted and not caring, but he probably thought i was being beta...
Then walking home, I noticed three of the 'housos' who live about 100m from us carrying a small child's scooter, having stolen it from their property. Reported, but
FAITH IN HUMANITY: SHATTERED.