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Is it acceptable to comment on the appearance of strangers in public? Readers discuss
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‘Transport for London is reminding us of respect for females while travelling’, points out reader
Fellow Commuter (MetroTalk, Thu) wrote of his journey being brightened by a ‘stylish’ woman dressed ‘entirely in pink’ who looked someone from 1960s period TV show The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
He wrote as a married man, he said, with ‘no intention beyond expressing how striking and refreshing it was to witness such effortless style and presence’.
He said ‘sometimes strangers… remind us of the art, fashion and eras we love – and that deserves acknowledgment’.
When Transport for London is reminding us of respect for females while travelling, in particular staring, I would suggest he spends less time ogling his fellow commuters, however stylish they may be.
Little short of cutting peepholes in the Metro he was reading, I’m not sure how much more detail he could have garnered from ‘such effortless style and presence’.
Perhaps spare a thought for your ‘fellow commuter’ and the discomfort caused by – and I am being generous in this word – observing them. As a father, brother and husband, I know my family would feel uncomfortable with this kind of unsolicited attention. Neil Franklin, London
Should Amazon drivers put packages in the porch?
Amazon has launched a probe after a family complained about a delivery driver opening their unlocked front door to deposit a parcel in their porch (Metro, Thu). I’m shocked how petty people can be! There are irresponsible delivery drivers out there but this doesn’t look like one of them.
After ringing the doorbell and knocking four times, he made the right decision in ensuring the delivery wasn’t left outside to either get wet or stolen.
All this has done is make delivery drivers not want to make sure your delivery is safe and they’ll just leave it on the doorstep in future. Plus the poor guy may now face a disciplinary or even worse, lose his job! Shazza, via email
Who’s to blame for potholes?
Instead of knee-jerk assumptions that councils alone are to blame for pothole damage, I wonder if some complainants who put ‘fashion’ before practicality might consider whether they themselves could be part of the problem?
I’m thinking of how they might be causing potholes in the first place by driving three-ton ‘SUV’ behemoths (which they don’t need), driving on under-inflated low-profile tyres (which they also don’t need, they are not F1 drivers), driving too fast in problem areas, or not looking properly at the road while fiddling with phones.
The consequences are that insurance and breakdown premiums go up for all of us, because they can’t be bothered to drive intelligently. G Martin, Thornbury
‘Politicians don’t keep their promises’, says reader
Reform UK promise their deportation squads ‘won’t be like ICE’ – Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant squads that have attracted protests wherever they have operated and shot dead US civilians (Metro, Tue).
Yes, well, Labour promised to cut our energy bills and build 1.5 million houses. The Lib Dems promised to abolish tuition fees in 2010. Politicians don’t keep their promises.
We know Nigel Farage admires Trump – he’s called the president ‘the bravest man I know’. Trump is not one for keeping promises – remember that wall he never built? Do we honestly believe Farage is going to keep his new deportation force under control? Or will he be ‘inspired’ by Trump to turn it into a violent secret police? Ellie Jaeger, Leighton Buzzard
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