'How Very DARE You, It's For Charity, Don'tchaknow?'

Two charity hikers who skipped queues to reach the summit of Yr Wyddfa have spoken of their anger at being booed.

Not their shame, no, of course not! Their unjustified anger. 

Jamie Richardson, 32, and Richard Thiedeman, 34, avoided "Alton Towers-like" queues as they hiked different routes up the mountain on Sunday and were met with jeers from those waiting as they tapped the trig point to complete a charity challenge.

And they claimed they had no clue why they might have got that reaction,  of course. And I believe them, they seem to suggest that because they were doing it for charity they were entitled to skip the queue!

Richardson said: "There's no policing of it at all, it is purely free will, if you want to queue you can."

Yes, and people did, because it's the polite thing to do. But not you, because you’re special….. 

Thiedeman said: "Knowing what I've just been through with the other two mountains, I was really exhausted. 

"I just needed to get it over with, I'm in the sun, I'm getting sunburned. I just need to tap [the trig point] and leave."

Like, I suspect, the majority of the people queuing, who still have manners and a sense of social responsibility and not simply a charidee T-shirt and an overweening sense of your own self importance.

Richardson experienced another hiker trying to physically stop him from reaching the trig point. "I'm up to the third mountain, I'm physically exhausted, it was 20 odd degrees. No shade or anything," he said. "I was physically struggling. I wanted to just go up and touch the summit and get myself down. "I was getting booed and then there was a gentleman who was at the top, who had just had his photo taken and he physically tried to stop me." He added he had just touched the summit point and heard someone say "you should be ashamed of yourself".

A waste of breath, these kids are incapable of it… 

Thiedeman continued: "If you've got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all. 

"Instead they were trying to belittle the attempts of people they don't even know. 

They know all they need to know about you-that you don’t feel society’s unwritten rules for cohesion apply to you. 

"When I'm wearing a T-shirt that you can see what this person's hiking for... surely anybody at the summit of a mountain deserves a cheer and a well done? 

"I was coming up feeling proud and then I'm being booed, so now I'm really angry and I'm not focused on being proud. 

Awww, poor baby! 

"Whatever anybody's belief or approach is, you don't boo somebody else because they don't have the same approach."

"The queuing, that is just purely down to British culture traditions. "A bit more encouragement in the world would go a little bit further, rather than trying to put people down."

You see, you won’t be able to understand this, but we really value those cultural traditions, and we want to keep them. It’s bad enough we are importing people who don’t and never will, share them, but to see you come along and scorn them, well, you’re lucky all you got was booed!