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Bus Stop from Hell
Have you ever sat fuming in a bus stop? I have. I check my watch. I read the timetable on the wall. I check my watch again. I get up to look down the road with the concentration usually practiced by a sailor in a crows nest looking for sight of land.
But residents of a nursing home in Dusseldorf have a bus stop from Hell. Not one single bus stops there! It’s a farce, a trick to get the poor old codgers plonked down in the seat awaiting a non-existent bus.
Apparently they’re happy, after waiting some time, to be coaxed back inside for a nice cup of tea. It would take more than a cup of tea to calm me down.
Staff say that the elderly Errants wait for a trip home at the bus stop, only to forget why they were there in the first place. Poor old buggers, as if life isn’t hard enough without waiting interminably for a bus.
newest.com.au
Visible Plight of Pensioners
When I originally saw this photo I assumed a lady of roughly my vintage was experiencing a common-or-garden hot flush, a power surge, as I like to call it.
But no, she was a one of a gang of protesting pensioners who marched on the buildings of Parliament just over a week ago. Determined to be heard - or at the very least seen.
Many of them threw caution, and their cardigans, to the winds.
These scantily-clad seniors braved the autumn weather to protest against the federal budget, which offers them little despite a 21.7 billion dollar (20 billion US) surplus.
Can you spare a dime for an old dame?
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