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May 20, 2011
--Some of today's local events:
Today, when I was on the bus, a man who was sitting with his girlfriend in the seat behind me kept loudly coughing. He also started calling out names of businesses and streets as the bus approached them and then laughing in a really ugly way; he announced the Chinese restaurant "The House of Tang" twice, making sure to emphasize the word "Tang," and then went on to announce "River Street."
I went up to the bus driver and asked him to ask the guy to be quiet. The bus driver hemmed and hawed and then I said "I'm asking you to do it because I didn't want to do it myself and get mad at the guy." The bus driver said "You can do it," and I guess I more or less did. After I persuaded him to stop yelling out names of businesses and streets, he muttered "I guess I better not cough too loud, either." He didn't cough many more times, although he grumbled and snickered a few more times, especially after a guy who was either a teenager or in his early twenties got on the bus and started talking about the following things:
-----Someone he knew who had a "big beard." He then said that he himself had just "shaved his off."
-----Someone he used to know named "Lisa" who was "always telling other people that they're stupid."
-----He said he used to work in a pizza place, and that sometimes he'd be in the back "stretching dough."
The bus driver made a stop and yelled "Only American girls can get off at this stop." Two obviously teenage girls got off the bus, and as they left the bus driver leered at them and yelled "Don't get wet!"
It's been intermittently raining today, but all of that was bad.
Earlier this evening, when I was sitting outdoors, a male resident of the shelter who asked me out a few days ago and to whom I politely said "no" announced his presence from several yards away by coughing. I looked up, since people coughing is now often a rude signal that they've seen me, and he walked by me with his face obviously turned the other way. Once he'd gotten a few yards past me, he coughed again.
As is the case with most of the people who try to antagonize me, I've never done anything bad to that guy at all.
Copyright L. Kochman May 20, 2011 @ 6:38 p.m.
May 20, 2011
--Some of today's local events:
Today, when I was on the bus, a man who was sitting with his girlfriend in the seat behind me kept loudly coughing. He also started calling out names of businesses and streets as the bus approached them and then laughing in a really ugly way; he announced the Chinese restaurant "The House of Tang" twice, making sure to emphasize the word "Tang," and then went on to announce "River Street."
I went up to the bus driver and asked him to ask the guy to be quiet. The bus driver hemmed and hawed and then I said "I'm asking you to do it because I didn't want to do it myself and get mad at the guy." The bus driver said "You can do it," and I guess I more or less did. After I persuaded him to stop yelling out names of businesses and streets, he muttered "I guess I better not cough too loud, either." He didn't cough many more times, although he grumbled and snickered a few more times, especially after a guy who was either a teenager or in his early twenties got on the bus and started talking about the following things:
-----Someone he knew who had a "big beard." He then said that he himself had just "shaved his off."
-----Someone he used to know named "Lisa" who was "always telling other people that they're stupid."
-----He said he used to work in a pizza place, and that sometimes he'd be in the back "stretching dough."
The bus driver made a stop and yelled "Only American girls can get off at this stop." Two obviously teenage girls got off the bus, and as they left the bus driver leered at them and yelled "Don't get wet!"
It's been intermittently raining today, but all of that was bad.
Earlier this evening, when I was sitting outdoors, a male resident of the shelter who asked me out a few days ago and to whom I politely said "no" announced his presence from several yards away by coughing. I looked up, since people coughing is now often a rude signal that they've seen me, and he walked by me with his face obviously turned the other way. Once he'd gotten a few yards past me, he coughed again.
As is the case with most of the people who try to antagonize me, I've never done anything bad to that guy at all.
Copyright L. Kochman May 20, 2011 @ 6:38 p.m.