Letter: Youngsters are not all bad

Letter: I have been travelling on the buses this year visiting my disabled wife Edna in the PRH, Telford.

On November 13, I boarded a 44 bus from Telford Centre to the PRH via Oakengates, Ketley and Wellington.

It was standing room only and a young lady with a long black coat and a young toddler in a pushchair took up two seats in the wheelchair and pushchair position.

I suggested she sat on the push down seat in front of her child, but she insisted that I sat on the seat and I very reluctantly agreed because my foot (sciatica) was giving me pain.

Although I am an OAP I don't feel my age (69) and I hope I don't look it. But in an age when the manners of young people are often questioned it was a nice surprise to see there are still young people who think of others.

A few months ago a young man with a hood on got on the bus at Wellington and it seemed he had not got enough money to get to Oakengates. Despite the hood he seemed a nice young chap and I was about to pay his fare when an elderly couple got up and paid his fare and I think they knew him for they also got off the bus at Oakengates.

The young chap sat near me and we had quite a good conversation which proves you can't judge a book by its cover.

But even when there are seats vacant on the bus some young students will plonk themselves on priority seats for the elderly and disabled and I think of that song "Fings (things) ain't what they used to be".

Ray Williams

Shifnal