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crossed wires can be vey painful ;-)

Ah...…. crossed wires. I was responding to namelessones opening post.

:-S Sorry Maddie I don't understand your reply at 16.18

Never heard that. But I did see that our bus passes might be suspended to ease overcrowding. No problem we will survive without going to town.

OH doesn’t drive so I was really annoyed when I discovered they knew our little bus was still running.

Our bus doesn’t arrive until after 9.30 so I never have the chance to be a proper Twirly.

it might be if you were a twirley, they have probably not heard of such a phrase

How did you know I was going to ask that Maddie? :-S

Not unkind at all!

something i would be if i weren't housebound :-(

I've lived in both worlds. The one where you just walk to the bus stop and a bus appears and now in the one where you have to go online to see if there is a bus at all! Dark ages! :-0

What are Twirlies? :-S

twirly means: Noun. A senior citizen, or OAP (old age pensioner). Originally bus driver's slang, from supposed senior citizen's regular attempts at using their cheap off-peak journey passes before the permitted off-peak hour, and therefore being "too early" (a verbal corruption of). E.g."How can I keep the bus on schedule when at every bus stop I have to refuse all the twirlies."

how unkind

Poor older Londoners, they might become Twirlies like much of the country.

There is talk of them losing their free rush hour travel. I’d say welcome to the real world but they have no idea what it is like to have no or virtually no public transport.