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After last night I am saddened with what I saw.

My trip to London last night was a total disaster and we had to take Attitude as she messed up her New Year plans...

I am not that naive that I don't know how things really are, but I very rarely witness bad behaviour, drunkeness, lout gangs.... I could add more.
I didn't cope too well with it all, my life is so far removed from the crowds, cultures and the above. I am Officially a Country Mouse.

We got stuck in a blocked off road, the wrong side of the river so we stood next to a wall and weathered the pushing and shoving for a while.
Some of the language and abuse I witness, shocked me to the core and I didn't think I was a total prude!

I coped until a drunken 'lout' pushed me hard. I made the mistake of looking at him... he kept shouting at me "are you dumb?" He shouted it a few times and I said "what's your problem?" He wanted me to get out of the way so his girlfriend could have some space...I had nowhere to go, I was squashed against the wall. He then told his girlfriend to get on the wall..it was about 5 feet high, she said she couldn't get up there. He then got very abusive and headbutted her shouting at her too. He then punched me in the stomach.
At this point I just wanted to go home. We made our way back towards the station, got there just as the fireworks started. We were able to hear them and see a few sparks coming from behind the top of some buildings. We were on the train by 12.05 going back to Stratford where we had parked..... somewhere!!

Never again!

Tina x

oh no thats awful hope u ok I was going to go there last night as Southend was shut...god how scarry

Oh Tina..........ghastly ,terriable,night mareish.You poor thing.And I thought of you last night as I watched the fireworks on the telly..........country mouse indeed,
I live in Norfolk and hate going into any big Cities.
At least you know now to stick closer to home and Thank God it didn't get even uglier for you.
Amanda

tina not a very good start to the year hun

hope the rest of this year is better for you

luv stray
xxx

Tina - thats horrible, how are you today, hope yor are ok and that poor girl god l hate to think what staight she may be in.

Take care.

jude sarf wales xx

It was rather horrid..

Jude, as I was moving away a few lads on the wall were getting involved with the imbecile and his girlfriend (who I hasten to add, was also very colourful in her language, armed with a bottle of vodka)

I was so disappointed with missing the fireworks - not quite the same on Youtube, I cried when I got home. Seems so silly now.

Tina x

Tina - no its not silly, l would have howled, but l might also have said something l regretted to HIM!!!

Take care.

jude sarf wales xx

Yes Jude, I bit my tongue.... the punch could have been a knife :o((

x

Awww Tina, how awful for you. That's terrible that you got caught up in someone elses problem. Didn't anyone in the crowd help? Or were they all too drunk and busy to notice?

Sorry you had what shoudl have been a wonderful experience marred by this. Lets hope that however you choose to celebrate new year in the future is more fun and peaceful than that.

OMG Tina. What a horrible experience. O can understand why other people don't want to get involved these days. May the rest of your year be more peaceful and happier.

x

Tina so sorry you had such a dreadful experience just thankful you got home safely.

Enjoy today and forget all about it with all the lovely people on here!

Linda x

So sorry for you Tina, but I do know what you mean. The last time I took my wife to town for a dinner-dance was last summer. OK at 8.30 pm going into the restaurant but at 11.45 when we left - drunken louts (and loutesses) were everywhere, vomiting all over the pavement, males urinating against shop windows, awful language from both sexes and six police officers standing by their van 100 metres away doing nothing.
Never again, we now patronise our local pub/restaurant, at least the landlord and landlady won't tolerate bad behaviour and refuse to serve under-agers.
After many holidays in Greece, Turkey, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, etc. where you can walk around safely after midnight, I despair for my country.

Aww Tina..............how awful for you ((((hug)))) glad you are alright now.

xx

Tina that was awful for you, just glad you are ok and home safe, sounds like it could have easily turned much nastier, I'm a country mouse too and hate city trips, they scare me.
Best wishes for the new year to you.

Thank you all for your lovely replies.

It's a shame that we don't feel safe any more, but that's just how it is and it's not going to change.

Most of us can remember when we felt safe to go out after dark, but many of todays youth don't know any different, they are living it, cope with it and deal with it so there is no hope of it changing - it's just how it is now.

I know there were more decent people there last night than there were 'horrors' but the 'horrors' seem to have the monopoly.

Have a good day, we live and learn.

Tina x

Hi Tina
So sorry to hear about your evening and am glad that you were'nt more seriously hurt. Nothing today surprises me anymore as there is no law and order left in society. I was having friends come to me last night and on their way driving along the High St there was a man screaming staggering along covered in blood. No one stopped to help him apart from my friends. He had been battered about the head witha hammer. They tried to stem the blood and called an ambulance which took over twenty minutes to arrive.
They were so shaken up but said they had to help him.
Hope you have a lovely day

Cathy

Oh Cathy, how frightening for them.
The scarey thing is, by getting involved in something as humanitarian as that, you are never sure if there will be repercussions.

That is what i said. We are all carers by profession and i think that took over really but it could have gone oh so wrong. It makes me so frightend for my children as they get older but what can you do. Although my eldest son is 16 and he will not go out after dark which is a blessing really. I live in Portsmouth and it can be a very scary place.
Cathy

tina marie i really hope your ok, im defitnatly country now lots of love and hugs to you xxxxxx