I WAS walking along last Saturday in Ludlow, and a young lady snapped at me "don't push the children out into the road".

I wasn't, she was holding hands with them on her left into the roadway, I was merely sauntering along.

Later as I got off the bus in Hereford a large lady sarcastically said "excuse me", as I bumped her in the bus corridor whilst disembarking.

In the late afternoon in the newsagents' I neatly laid the loose unwanted sections of The Times and the Hereford Times. I took them out and piled them neatly on the floor, when the shop manager told me off and said: "So you're just going to leave that rubbish there are you"?

That was a hat-trick of minor irritations I didn't let it spoil the pleasant sunny Saturday. Your readers might get similar treatment. Perhaps I was the guilty one?

WILLIAM PATRICK PARKER,

West Kirby, Cheshire.