Steph and I went to the Transport Museum in Glasgow and there much to my surprise was a Number 3 Tramcar. I used to go to school in this. From age 7-12 this was my daily mode of transport across the city . A walk to the stop and a walk back .We are talking 1957-1962 . I always went upstairs for the view was better .Until the day a drunk man came upstairs and assaulted me by hitting me across the face several times. I started to cry and it stirred four Glasgow wifies into action. Glasgow wifies in the 1950/60s were formidable if they were angered and hitting a child was a way of doing that. They did not dial 911. They also carried umbrellas -pointed 12 bore umbrellas which they used to great effect. They stabbed him as hard as they could -back legs neck, ears. There were cries of "ye dirty big scunner.ye drunken pig and the rest I will spare you .His feet did not touch the steps on the way down .The driver stopped the tram and they threw the guy off .The conductor or driver were not going to argue with fired up Glasgow wifies. Had any of them been facing him I could hazard a guess as to where the umbrellas would have been poked . My father was told and he would have killed the guy if he had found him. . These wifies were the match for the Marines or Spetznaz forces .
This was the first time I had been back on a tram in 52 years and it may have been that very
tram Don't let one bad incident in your life spoil the view God is capable of bringing good out of bad
in ways we cannot imagine.There is no excuse for hitting 8 year old children round the face but back in those days justice was done quicker than it is now and hey no lawyers involved.
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