People you meet on the way to work

JCDenton

The folks who walk to work or get the bus / train may find this more familiar than those who drive.

For as long as I could remember, the happiest looking girl would pass me by every morning, and give a big smile and a “Hi!”, until one morning; she just wasn’t there any more.
I’m usually the grumpy looking chap, who seems to be quite upset about getting out of bed; so rather than a morning coffee; her infectious smile used to set me up for the day.

Now it’s just not the same any more.

Anyone else have any similar stories, or do you (like me now) walk to work with your head down and headphones in?

DrumSteve

you didn't kill her did you?

Kintarō Hattori

I have about a 20 minute walk to work in the morning. Everyday I pass the same people, nothing remarkable but one thing I have noticed. Alot of the 'inner city' mothers in my area seem to drag their children to school in the morning. They don't look terribly happy and are often shouting at the kids. There is one young mum though who seems to dote on her kid, she walks with him (rather than dragging him) and always chats to him.

It's a really nice scene and puts a smile on my face.

Pop's Diner

Not really. I get a bus literally outside my door to a workplace about 1 minute from my stop. While on the bus I have a video player so I usually have my head down minding my own business pretending the rest of the world doesn't exist. So basically what I'm saying I don't really notice people during my journey. So much so that one day forgot my player and had to spend the trip staring up at the front of the bus and out the side window like the rest of the peons. It had been so long since done this that as I looked out the window I realised that an entire 4 storey office block had been built during my self imposed state of oblviousness.

G86

There's this guy I walk past most mornings heading into work and he always has a big smile and a good morning for me It actually freaked me out a little the first time, and I would just kind of smile and look down, but now I always say hi back

Oh and when I was working in my old job I was out one night and this guy came up to me and goes 'I smile at you every day and you never smile back!', I was like 'wtf?!' - and then he explained that he walked passed me every morning and smiled but I'd never noticed! Whoops!

Gone West

I work from home, so I mostly just meet my friends and whoever we've had staying over the night before.

AnonoBoy

JCDenton wrote: »

For as long as I could remember, the happiest looking girl would pass me by every morning, and give a big smile and a “Hi!”, until one morning; she just wasn’t there any more.

Oh she died. It was tragic - she gave up her life rescuing kids from an orphanage fire but it was all in vain as the ambulance they were being transported to hospital in was hit by an articulated lorry and they all died too. Terrible terrible tragedy for all involved.

Sorry to ruin your Monday.

Pop's Diner

OP, I know the girl you're talking about. She got laid off from her job thanks to the ********** and now just sits at home all day eating junkfood and watching chat-shows. Needless to say the smile is long gone now.

FlutterinBantam

Pulled the rip cord has she?

What a shame.

Abi

JCDenton wrote: »

The folks who walk to work or get the bus / train may find this more familiar than those who drive.

For as long as I could remember, the happiest looking girl would pass me by every morning, and give a big smile and a “Hi!”, until one morning; she just wasn’t there any more.
I’m usually the grumpy looking chap, who seems to be quite upset about getting out of bed; so rather than a morning coffee; her infectious smile used to set me up for the day.

Now it’s just not the same any more.

Anyone else have any similar stories, or do you (like me now) walk to work with your head down and headphones in?

Pfff. Job snob!

Relevant

She might be a teacher OP? She might ba back again in September

AnonoBoy

Abigayle wrote: »

Pfff. Job snob!

Oh I'd love a snobjob right about now! You filthy girl!

minidazzler

Pop's Diner wrote: »

Not really. I get a bus literally outside my door to a workplace about 1 minute from my stop.

Why don't you simply walk to work?

AnonoBoy

minidazzler wrote: »

Why don't you simply walk to work?

Maybe because he lives too far away. Read the post again minidazzler.

Pop's Diner

minidazzler wrote: »

Why don't you simply walk to work?

Cos it's about a 60minute walk between my house door and the workplace (hense the sitting on the bus part).

Cianos

Pop's Diner wrote: »

Cos it's about a 60minute walk between my house door and the workplace (hense the sitting on the bus part).

The joke was that it could be read that you were saying it's one minute from the stop at which you get on the bus

Pop's Diner

Cianos wrote: »

The joke was that it could be read that you were saying it's one minute from the stop at which you get on the bus

Yep, I see that too now. Wouldn't mind taking a 1 minute bus ride to work. Ironically I live on a stretch of road that has 3 bus-stops within 300 metres of each other (don't ask me why Dublin Bus felt that was necessary, all on my route , my home is ath the middle one) so the 1 minute ride could theoretically be a possibility.

Relevant

Pop's Diner wrote: »

so the 1 minute ride could theoretically be a possibility.

A 1 minute ride is much longer than i'd normally last. You should count yourself lucky

Pop's Diner

Relevant wrote: »

A 1 minute ride is much longer than i'd normally last. You should count yourself lucky

Same here. I usually just bag-up beforehand to help me make it to the magic-60 as I call it. Wouldn't want the lucky lady to feel short-changed by finishing early don't ya know.

Dravokivich

Relevant wrote: »

A 1 minute ride is much longer than i'd normally last. You should count yourself lucky

sure what could you want to do for the other 14 minutes???

- Drav!

drunkymonkey

JCDenton wrote: »

or do you (like me now) walk to work with your head down and headphones in?

There's your problem! Maybe if you didn't have your head down and earphones in you might see and hear her next time!

AnonoBoy

Relevant wrote: »

A 1 minute ride is much longer than i'd normally last. You should count yourself lucky

Pop's Diner wrote: »

Same here. I usually just bag-up beforehand to help me make it to the magic-60 as I call it. Wouldn't want the lucky lady to feel short-changed by finishing early don't ya know.

Take it to the PI forum jumpstarters!

Earthhorse

It's interesting see people go about their routine. Most people perform like clockwork. I've recently started a new commute to work and I've yet to acquaint myself with the regulars on my walk, though possibly that's the way it is in town. When I used to get the Luas there were regulars I would always spot, particularly in the mornings. There's something comforting about that familiarity, though I can't say I ever exchanged anything more than a glance with them.

gorjess-girlie

Once I was at my bus-stop and I saw my (now junkie) cousin, didn't think he noticed me til he walked over.......... and asked me for the time. He had no idea who I was.... That pesky heroin.

Zwillinge

Every morning at the bus stop, there's 2 lads there.
One frowns at me each day.
The other smiles happily and even comments to me about the weather...especially when it rains :P
They both always insist on letting me on the bus first. Small things in life that are nice.
Then on the 4th stop, a gothic chick gets on and then on the 6th stop, a worker for O'Carrolls gets on.
I also see these people from time to time on bus journeys home too, even though I usually get a different timed bus each day...strange!

confusticated

I can tell if I'm early or running late by how far down the street I pass certain people. Except Saturdays. Saturday mornings are very strange cos there're much fewer people around.

ixoy

Stand beside the same people each day at the platform and, not knowing their names, have made up nicknames for them. There's a Radio Girl for the girl who plays her music so loud that I can hear the words of the host spilling from her headphones. Or there's Lemons, who always has the most sour look on her face in the morning (I've never seen her smile).

Pop's Diner

gorjess-girlie wrote: »

Once I was at my bus-stop and I saw my (now junkie) cousin, didn't think he noticed me til he walked over.......... and asked me for the time. He had no idea who I was.... That pesky heroin.

Maybe you had just lost weight? Have you been ill?

Fizman

JCDenton wrote: »

For as long as I could remember, the happiest looking girl would pass me by every morning, and give a big smile and a “Hi!”, until one morning; she just wasn’t there any more.
I’m usually the grumpy looking chap, who seems to be quite upset about getting out of bed; so rather than a morning coffee; her infectious smile used to set me up for the day.

Now it’s just not the same any more.

Her name was Jessice. That was my girlfriend. We got married there a while back. She's in the kitchen now, mostly. I'll tell her that the grumpy old bollix she passed every mornin was asking for her. :pac:

Alessandra

I used to work in the US and every morning I'd meet the same people at the coffeeshop on the way in. We'd smile and nod. The baristas would know my order without asking. Those were the days.

Scrambled egg

Ahhhh the good auld bus. Same faces everyday. The old lady reading the paper, the creepy guy playing with his Ipod and finaly the cunt down the back who thinks I pay to get on the bus to listen to his music and have a rave. Lower it down please !!!

KeyLimePie

well..i work in a petrol station and the same people come in all the time getting the same stuff and making the same jokes does that count, does my head in though

Sesudra

I walk to work as of 2 weeks ago,so dunno the regulars yet,but at my old bus stop was-The Odd Couple-an old married couple who wore the same clothes every day and never spoke to each other
Smokey Joe-in the 5 minutes I would be waiting for the bus,she'd smoke up a storm
Business Tramp-a young lady who wore really smart jackets,with really really short skirts and dangerous looking stilettos
Senorita-she was always reading a Spainish/English dictionary along with a novel,in Spainish

Slumlion

I dont have any work to walk to anymore
But I did enjoy those fond memorys of the better days

jumpguy

I walk to school every morning with my neighbour and I now know everyone on the morning run. First off, there's the truck carrying the pigs to the slaughter every Monday morning to cheer me up about my life. It leaves a rotten smell of **** after it though.
Then there's the lads who go around in that truck every morning cleaning the gutters, always a friendly salute.
One time for about a month there was an elderly priest living in one of the houses. He stopped me dead in my tracks one morning for a chat. He asked us about our school and sports, and asked us to cheer up and not worry about exams or anything, it's too short. He apparently thought we were glum so we had to smile to get away from him lol! He was a nice ole fella though, I dunno what happened to him.
For about a month and a half there was a dead cat at the side of the footpath in a hedge and we got an exciting day-by-day view of mammal decaying until it was mysteriously disposed of.
Every morning there's a woman walking down the road to work, and she FLIES it. She is the fastest walker I've ever seen. One icy winters day, I slipped on ice, landed on my arse and she asked was I alright. That was about all the communication we ever had.
Every evening walking home in 2nd year (don't walk home straight after school anymore) there was a rather attractive older girl infront of us. We never worked up the guts to talk to her.

Walking to school/work gets more routine as you do it, and if you leave at a consistent same time you'll meet the same people in their morning routine too.

barleybooley

I live literally 30 seconds from work and usually meet one of the local crazies along the way.

DancingQueen:)

confusticated wrote: »

I can tell if I'm early or running late by how far down the street I pass certain people.

Yeah same, I see the same people every day on my way to school and know if I'm early or late by where they are. It helps when you forget a watch!! :rolleyes:

bronte

ixoy wrote: »

Stand beside the same people each day at the platform and, not knowing their names, have made up nicknames for them. There's a Radio Girl for the girl who plays her music so loud that I can hear the words of the host spilling from her headphones. Or there's Lemons, who always has the most sour look on her face in the morning (I've never seen her smile).

Lemons! Brilliant!

Novella

Every day I walk down Henry Street and get harrassed by those cnuts trying to make me donate money, arrrrrrrgh! :mad::mad: