Today I took the car to the mechanic (who is home sick, no car till at least Tuesday, oh yay) and took the bus home. At the transit center, a man offered the guy who was working on the soda machine fifty cents for one of the “damaged” sodas in the bottom of the machine. The workman said he couldn’t sell them. The man who wanted a soda turned to a lady sitting there and asked her if she had fifty cents so he could get a soda.
She started shouting at him. No, she didn’t have fifty **** cents to give no **** drunk she worked her **** off for her money and she wasn’t giving it to no lazy ****–
You get the drift. The poor man ducked away from her and went on down the concourse and she kept yelling after him about how worthless he was.
Excuse me? I wouldn’t expect this from anyone–even if he’d asked a man in a BMW, I’d expect some human courtesy. But from another user of public transit? Have you seriously never been in a position where you’d ask a stranger to help you get a cold drink, lady?
It was 103 degrees. The water in the water fountain was as hot as the air.
Memo to humanity: We’re all in this together, people.
….Oh, people.
I really don’t get them sometimes.
So tell us: YOU stepped up and gave him the money, right???
I didn’t have it to give. Does that invalidate my assertion that he deserved better?