December 10, 2014 - Written by: Sana Sarwar

Faith Restored In The Youth!

Picture this.

You’re late for the bus and you’re running like a mad person waving your travel card in the air for the bus to halt and take you on board. You then reach the bus: out of breath, and dwelling on how unfit you are and how another day in the gym would have not gone amiss.

You’re then ambushed by a group of teenagers who feel the need to disregard all aspects of common courtesy and push past you to gain seats on the bus together.

But wait – they don’t want one seat; they want the ENTIRE BUS.

They then start hogging the rest of the seats so no other person can sit on the empty seats, leaving you standing in the bus with your heavy bag causing you to sway, and embarrassingly bump into a few people. So by now I look like a red hot tomato.

At that particular moment I wanted the ground to swallow me whole and save me from this spectacle of torment.

As a person who has only just started using the bus as a common use of transport, I have to say I hate it with a vengeance.

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I feel like buses should come with their own health hazard and warning. Saying: Unless You Are Physically Fit And Prepared To Take On The Occasional Embarrassing Moment, Please Don’t Go On A Bus.

So in this very situation I felt that things could only get worse – not only was I now trapped in this bus for the next 50 minutes till I reached my destination, praying for these kids to get off, but I also looked like I ran a mile, with the way I was gasping for breath.

But strangely, everything changed.

After a few stops, the rowdy kids made a grand exit by shouting and left the bus. Yesssssssssss!

Jumping at the chance of sitting down, I grabbed a seat beside an elderly women, whilst trying to compose myself after that horrible ordeal. A teenage boy sat behind me then tapped on the women’s shoulder who was sitting beside me, she looked at me puzzled and I thought:

‘That’s it. I can’t keep quiet anymore; it’s one thing being loud but actually physically annoying an elderly women – the nerve! I’m sorry, kid, you just crossed the boundary…’

I went to turn and give this boy a piece of my mind, JUST as he told the woman that her hair pin had dropped on the floor and asked if she would like him to pick it up.

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Oh my!

Round Two of looking like a fool on the bus.

There I was, ready to have a bust up with this kid and all he wanted to do was help this elderly woman get her hair clip back.

The woman then thanked him and said it was ok; he asked her again and she said it wasn’t a big deal and she had more.

So that was the end of that I thought. But then just before the teenager was about to get off the bus, he handed the elderly women her hair clip back and said he got it from under her chair. The clip was small and trying to find that in a moving bus was like finding a needle in a haystack.

So when he pulled out the clip it made my heart melt.

That was officially the cutest thing I have ever seen.

I felt mega stupid for almost shouting at that boy. It just goes to show that although you see some teenagers that are annoying and rude that does not mean they all are like that. Who knows some people may see people my age just like that.