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Infuriated by this man's attitude

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ViceVersa Fri 26-Jun-26 11:48:33

It's not even the fact that he wanted her to move - which is bad enough - but filming it and plastering it on social media too! What happened to common decency and respect for others? I'm a lot younger than 80, but at the moment I've got one foot in a medical boot/shoe thingy because of torn ligaments and I would absolutely need to hold a handrail to hobble up or down stairs. I'm not one for wishing ill on others, but I hope karma bites him on the backside and he finds out one day just what it is like to need a bit of assistance or accommodation!

TerriBull Fri 26-Jun-26 11:21:39

been being

TerriBull Fri 26-Jun-26 11:20:28

Did anyone see this news story yesterday where a man blocked an 80 year old lady from using the handrail when going up the stairs from a tube station. Inexplicably he'd positioned himself against it to relax allegedly confused Hand rails are not there for that purpose. When she asked him to move because she needed the support of the rail he refused to with this comment "you can go around you've got legs!" at which point she told him she was 80 and needed the support of the handrail. I mean that's what they're actually for you moron! He then told her he was filming the interaction between them. Good! showed him up for the arse he is. At least he's been massively criticised on X for showing the clip, although it's hard to understand what makes people want to upload such material. I just hope he's outed.

My God if I was his mother watching that, I'd go the full Thatcher and handbag him for being so rude, obstructive, bloody minded and disrespectful to an elderly woman.

One day he might reach 80 and require the steadying influence of a handrail and his words may, if there's such a thing as karma, come back to haunt him when he's been obstructed hmm