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OAP rage, bus stop incident

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Yesterday when journeying to some casual work, I was waiting for a bus at the Richmond Bus stop, I’d just come out of the station and stood next to the pole perusing the route and timetable and glancing the street for the bus, to which, when it shortly arrived, I signalled to stop (unneccessarily no doubt, but habit non the less). As the Bus pulled up a little retinue of three old people (a couple and a lady) sidled past me to get on the bus first, and made some comment about me “being rude and not having qeue’d, and that they had seen me come from the station, after they had arrived at the bus stop”, this was all said in a rather spitefull and accusative manner.

I of course let them go first, they were in such a state of surpressed rage and their wet glassy eyes had a sense of wounded yet steeled anger with a hint of fear underlying at possible youthful reprisal ? I certainly wouldn’t of wished to have put them in a greater state, than they appeared to have enduced upon themselves. As I entered the bus behind them I made note to them, that the bus was in fact “completely empty” so their remonstrations seemed a little unwarranted, and that “we would all make it on” ,theyre were only six of us getting on. The thing that is truly strange, is I do not even remember seeing these people at the bus stop, As I approached it ?
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Mary Portas Queen of charity shops rant Part 2

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Part 1 of my dissection lies here :

and this retort is made with reference to the following comments made in relation to my original post:

nina jo rees Says:
January 11th, 2010 at 9:48 am e
I understand your point and you make it well. However, the object of charity shops is to make money for their charity. Anything that can be done to enable the shops make more money is to be welcomed. I don’t think regular charity shop shoppers would miss out if the shops were more professionally run. In fact we all might benefit.
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Money, I dont think is the only objective of charitys ? the object of charity shops is not just to make money and money alone, that is the realm of our rather over commercial business sector, hence the difference in categorisation and status between ‘charitable organisations’ and ‘business’s’, Charitys and Charity shops should have multiple objectives, such as behaving morally in their activity’s generally, noting the worth of free unpaid volunteer labour, and putting that time and energy to good use, without being insulting and treating those people as though they were being paid, when they quite clearly are not. I think charity, is also as much about being clever in the use of resources received, whether money or labour to ultimately acheive best result for all the people involved in their activity and those they are trying to aid.

Often throwing money at a situation where charity is concerned, does nothing but breed a false sense of entitlement and reliance on charity and that reliance on charitable culture, is often their to sustain a greater injustice elsewhere in the makeup and structure society and culture itself. I can also see plenty of arena’s, where lots of charitable money has been spent and very little lasting result has occured. this to me would indicate that too tight a focus on money, can easily lead to a scenario whereby it is wasted. Money has not and will not solve all the problems of the world today, it is a false god and those that perceive it as the total solution to all things are idiots, it is just a transactional token, which enables us to distribute goods and services, more of it in circulation does not automatically imply that those goods and services are more equally or fairly distributed. It is our will and desire to make a better world, that is of greater value.
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