People
Every person is different from the next and in my view they are all worth listening to. With every new interaction, we learn more about what it is to be a human being. On Sunday night, I boarded the last number 88 bus with my friend Mike. It was waiting at the bus stop. The driver was out of his seat pacing the bottom deck with no other passengers on board. When the pneumatic doors opened, the driver joshed with us that he had been hoping to drive back into the city centre on his own. I asked him if he liked a full bus or an empty one and he explained why he preferred the latter. After showing my senior citizen's pass I commented on his accent, "Are you from Northern Ireland?" He said he'd arrived in Sheffield from Belfast back in the 1990's. "Your accent is still strong," I remarked. "That's because I am proud of my heritage." And the conversation continued with thoughts about how some people deliberately and proudly hang on to the ...