Queer is fun!

[cosmolinguist]

The local pride has the best parade. They don't (can't!) close the arterial road we'd march down but we do get half of it. So we stay on the left side and oncoming traffic is on the right.

Pretty soon I noticed the chants whenever a bus was coming toward us. The most frequent bus on that road is the 192. So I heard (and soon happily joined in, enough that I nearly lost my voice by the end of a pretty short parade): "One nine two! Gay for you! One nine two! Gay for you!" Just nonsense, but it was fun. And we kept it up as long as it took for the bus to get past us.

Halfway through, we encountered a rail replacement bus, a common sight while Stockport station is closed. And pretty soon I heard (and yelled "Replacement bus! Gay for us! Replacement bus! Gay for us!"

At the end, we added a "One fifty! Gay for me!" and "One seven one! Queer is fun!"

Some of the bus drivers waved at us, some just stoically went about their job. But apparently everyone on the 171 was looking grumpy. I'm sad to see a bus I used to get to and from work being so unsupportive!

Comments

171 queer is indeed fun!

[jesse_the_k]

Now I'm imagining a grumpy fellow, in a double-decker bus outfit, sashaying down the street muttering "bah humbug!"

[crystalpyramid]

I love the chance! Boo to the 171 though.

[shewhostaples]

I love this!

(The one in my icon is a 7. Seven! Seven! Queer is heaven!)

[barakta]

192 night bus used to be full of queers at random times in the 90s! Yay for bus number related queer chants!