I was coming home from work yesterday and was sitting on the inward-facing bench seats over the rear wheels. There was a man sitting opposite me. He was holding up a newspaper and I couldn’t see him.
A few minutes into the ride he pulled his phone out of his pocket and mumbled something about lying. The phone didn’t ring first so I figure it was on vibrate. Then he put the phone away.
A few minutes later as the bus was approaching my stop, he pulled the phone out again and this time he put down the newspaper. He was about 60 and looked tough.
“What? Why you lie to me? Your mother needs money? Your mother needs a job? FUCK YOUR MOTHER!!!”
OMG! I was shocked to hear that! I’m sure my eyes about fell out of my head.
The man then calmly put the phone back in his pocket and started reading the paper again.
I wonder what the lady with the 4-year-old little girl sitting right next to him thought.
I thought this was going to be the post where you used your charms and good looks to get to the front of the line so you could finally get you iPrecious!
LOL! That’s why public transit is so interesting. You see a whole microcosm of society.
Cell phones really inspire bad public behavior because users think they are having a private conversation.
They’re not.
OMFG!
yeah, it takes all kinds to make a world; this dude is one extra special asshole!
you’re not in OH any more, dorothy…
Oh but I hate cellphones in public! Why do people think/believe no one can hear what they say? Don’t they realize everything they say is overheard???
And until your stop comes up there is nothing to do but listen. It is like being next to someone who is on their phone on the treadmill at the gym. No matter how much I speed up or slow down, they are still there.
How odd, rather awful behaviour, yet we as a generation in our society seem to accept such actions as sadly normal.
But then, I’ve had a little chuckle about it, maybe the phone didn’t even ring and he was just mad!
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