I am in York. Yay!
When I changed trains at Stalybridge I was met with a carriage stuffed with teens, many of which seemed to be young women, wearing clothes that had shrunk in the wash, wellies, silly hats and buried in a pile of tents, sleep mats and massive rucksacks! One of the lads very quickly gave his seat to me, joining the standing crush, and the group of girls made me as welcome as possible. I still had my booted leg in the ailse and my rucksack on my lap though. Fortunately they all got off at Leeds and I was able to breathe again.
There, a chsp bolted on and nabbed the adjacent table seat almost knocking me over. He grabbed out all the reserved tickets in the seats and said 'Fook that!' , tore them up threw them across the carriage. Then a woman joined him and between the two of them they covered the table in food and mess. In comparison to the very well behaved teens these two had seen the better side of 50!
Got off at York in a storm so headed off to get a taxi, queing at the rank. When I got to the front the driver asked if I would mind if I got the car behind while he took 8 in his people carrier. That was fair enough. However, as I looked to the next taxi I saw two women getting in from the other end of the queue!
I wasn't having that!
I shouted out 'There's a queue!'
I was ignored. The women had already annoyed me as I had to get past their cloud of cig smoke as they had been smoking while standing on the painted 'no smoking' sign on the pavement.
Anyway I stopped the taxi from leaving and gave them a few choice words and phrases. Then I told them to leave and make hay, in a round about way. The people behind me cheered me on and said 'You tell 'em' and words to that effect.
I then got the next taxi.
The driver told me I should have stood my ground longer and made them get out. He also said that as I blocked the rank the CCTV would pick it up and the driver would get pulled for picking up fares out of line, especially as a disabled person with luggage was waiting.
So, it was eventful but I am here now with

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My leg hurts, my foot hurts, and I am exhausted but glad to be in York. :thumbs: