l Having read negative comments on your website about the pensioners who play ‘bus roulette’ (Oxford Mail, June 9) I feel a lot of your readers need to lighten up.

Bus passes are available to anyone over 60. Surely pensioners are able to use them to socialise, not just to go shopping (most big supermarkets aren’t on a bus route in any case).

Are the people who are decrying them going to refuse the heating allowance and the bus pass when they reach 60? I think not.

I must admit to knowing all the people concerned and also to joining them on the odd night or two.

They are all retired and have presumably made their own financial provision for their old age and are entitled to a social life as much as anybody else. Presumably the moaners believe that anyone who receives benefit of any kind should not have a social life.

I would say to these people get a life and let other people enjoy their leisure time as they wish. They are not doing you any harm.

Colin Charlett

Sugworth Lane

Radley