That's the thing about common sense...

I am often baffled by people's innate lack of any common sense and courtesy - Why do you not have your ticket out when you get to the turnstile at the station? Why did you just stop in the middle of the path at the top of the escalator? What did you think would happen when you put a watermelon on top of your eggs?

But this morning on the train, a woman nearly had me up in her face gangster style.We are all anxiously watching the news, learning the latest about the floods in Queensland and now parts of NSW and VIC with most of us feeling helpless in the fact that there is nothing we can do.

This woman had a different take. These are some of the highlights of her loud conversation with her friend:
"How could you ever live so close to a flood plain"
"They are all stupid to move there"
"I would never insure them living in a flood plain"

"What idiots"

What on earth possessed her to say these things, out loud, in a public place, the morning where 10 people are confirmed dead, over 90 are missing and the worst is still to come? I can not answer that.

As to what I should have said to her this morning:
Firstly, what an incredibly insensitive thing to say on a train packed full of strangers. You don't know who these people are and how they are affected.
Secondly, why do you think people live there? Is it perhaps because the natural water sources provide a good environment to cultivate crops?
And finally, surely we can all agree that this has been an unseasonably wet Summer. Therefore the conditions faced are not the result of poor town planning but a natural disaster.


And yes, I know you have the right to your opinion and to be an insensitive individual, but do you have to do it loudly, in my full carriage at 7.30 in the morning? I find it offensive. Also - take that ridiculous nail polish off.

/end rant.