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I was coming home last night from a work thing, and there were people all over town. It was insane. I waited for a taxi for a bit, then tried walking, and discovered that various streets were blocked by roadworks, ambulances at accident scenes, and a near riot in Harcourt Street.
So I went back to the taxi rank in St Stephen's Green. The queue was amazingly slow. Behind me in it was a single girl, well dressed - sort of post-goth-with-taste, maybe - who had arrived, while talking on a mobile, said "No, look, if you can forget about me and go on to the club, you evidently don't give a damn. Goodbye", and hung up. A moment late, she got a text message, and started to cry. There were a few more people in the queue by then, and a few people gave her concerned looks, but nobody said anything, because, well, you don't. It started to rain, and she put up an umbrella. A couple of minutes later, the guy standing behind her pushed her forward, quite hard.
She turned, and asked, still crying, "What was that for?"
"You were sticking it in me face", he said.
"You were two feet back, I couldn't have" she said, taking the umbrella down.
"Yeah, you did" he said, and kicked her. Quite hard. In the leg. In front of about ten other people.
So one confrontation later, in which I was very very polite, and called him "sir" and her "the lady", and only mentioned once that I'd break his jaw if he didn't back off and shut up now, he backed off. And spent the rest of the time queuing moving around at about two steps from her, looking as threatening as possible, until I stared him down again. What a fucking wanker. What kind of asshole kicks a crying girl?
So I went back to the taxi rank in St Stephen's Green. The queue was amazingly slow. Behind me in it was a single girl, well dressed - sort of post-goth-with-taste, maybe - who had arrived, while talking on a mobile, said "No, look, if you can forget about me and go on to the club, you evidently don't give a damn. Goodbye", and hung up. A moment late, she got a text message, and started to cry. There were a few more people in the queue by then, and a few people gave her concerned looks, but nobody said anything, because, well, you don't. It started to rain, and she put up an umbrella. A couple of minutes later, the guy standing behind her pushed her forward, quite hard.
She turned, and asked, still crying, "What was that for?"
"You were sticking it in me face", he said.
"You were two feet back, I couldn't have" she said, taking the umbrella down.
"Yeah, you did" he said, and kicked her. Quite hard. In the leg. In front of about ten other people.
So one confrontation later, in which I was very very polite, and called him "sir" and her "the lady", and only mentioned once that I'd break his jaw if he didn't back off and shut up now, he backed off. And spent the rest of the time queuing moving around at about two steps from her, looking as threatening as possible, until I stared him down again. What a fucking wanker. What kind of asshole kicks a crying girl?
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A *drunk* asshole possibly?
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Frickin' A.
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He'll regret that, have you seen the sort of shoes women wear these days heh.
And huzzah for you, it's good to know there are still good men out there.
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One that we tend to call "Sad Lads" over here... they all look and act the same, trying to be 'trendy' and 'cool' while instead looking like stupid sheep with an IQ lower the pi.
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Good question. Fortunately, I wouldn't know - I think I'm pretty safe in saying that all the guys I'm fortunate enough to know are the standing-up-for-girl types. However, you must remember that we live in a world where another kind of asshole can murder, and possibly abuse, two innocent ten-year-old girls.
*shrugs*
People suck.
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Congratulations on your restraint, not landing yourself in trouble for assault, no matter how we would have cheered you on for breaking his jaw.
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Why stop at a broken jaw? It's too bad the lady in question didn't kick back & rid one more asshole from the chance to breed.
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My respect, as well, and same from Mikko.
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I have to admit, if that girl were me you wouldn't have needed to step in...
Actually, yes you would have. I would have been about ready to pull my Sixth Level Inherited Irish Temper with +4 damage to idiot males.
No one likes to see that.
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The fragile-of-ego kind of asshole, in other words, who believes that manliness is measured in terms of physical violence and is too afraid to go up against people his own strength.
Women do this too, of course, and it's harder to come up with good stereotypical explanations...
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Who no longer has nightmares about Rob hitting her.
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Congratulations for sticking up for someone who needed it, and being polite about it too.