Out of the Mouths of Babes

Well wonders never cease. A bus journey to work that has made personal history as far as I am concerned.

When I got to the top deck the air was thick with vile cigarette smoke. I had my new cardigan on and I didn't want that to reek, and there were two small children sitting at the front. What more of a nudge did I need to speak up and out.

"Please stop smoking it is against the law" I said, only this time particularly confidently and clearly because I had forgotten that I had my Ipod earplugs in with Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club playing it loud.

The offender immediately threw his cigarette out of the window without comment - good job too I thought. But then the bus suddenly came to a stop. The driver came up and demanded to know who had been smoking! Well we all sat still and feeling like naughty school children we were not going to shop the offender. But the little girl at the front also spoke up loud and clear and pointing a steady finger at the miscreant she uttered the fatal words: "it was him that did the smoking."

Oh my oh my. The naughty man got frog marched off.