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[gothwalk]

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?

Comments

[crimmycat.livejournal.com]

Thank you for being a true and kind gentleman! I've run into far too many assholes like that in life, and far too few gentlemen.

Congratulations on your restraint, not landing yourself in trouble for assault, no matter how we would have cheered you on for breaking his jaw.