Comments | glowing_dragon: Rant about old men who BODILY LIFT YOU UP FROM YOUR SEAT so they can sit on the bus!

glowing_dragon

Rant about old men who BODILY LIFT YOU UP FROM YOUR SEAT so they can sit on the bus!

Aug 20, 2006 00:43

(I've fleshed out the "My Past" memory section, and added a new one for rants / nonsense / reposts... I could have added more entries with the volume of rants here, but don't have time as I have to get up at 7:30... ugh ( Read more... )

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surrey_sucks August 20 2006, 07:49:03 UTC

What the fuck???!!! Some guy gabbed you, and lifted you up?! He deserves a kick to the crotch! Grrr!

I really liked how you expressed yourself in this post-very well written. Too bad it's friends only-I'd love to link it or post it in my journal because I think it's such an excellent post.

glowing_dragon August 20 2006, 08:05:16 UTC

Yes, that's right. I didn't see the old guy coming, otherwise I would have offered my seat to him and his wife! Some people (like the person who called me a bitch when we both got off the bus at Metrotown) probably thought I didn't stand up deliberately. Uh, I'm not the type of person to do that! I was CLEARLY engrossed in my book! UGH!

Just for you: public. :P

surrey_sucks August 20 2006, 08:14:47 UTC

:P

I'm going to link it in my journal right now, if you don't mind.

glowing_dragon August 20 2006, 08:26:27 UTC

:P

If I did mind, I wouldn't have made it public. :P

hellsings_home August 20 2006, 12:44:50 UTC

Holy damn...

I have never, in the whole of my thirteen years alive, seen such an incident. How did he lift you up, pray tell? And give him a good kick up his arse. The most he should've done is inform you of the old lady.

As for those who stupidly accuse anotehr of something the latter doesn't deserve, smash his cock.

glowing_dragon August 20 2006, 23:03:22 UTC

Haha, I should have done so! Aiyoh.

primary_impulse August 20 2006, 14:00:16 UTC

I usually pretend to be asleep :) Works great :) But then again, I don't want to give up my seat. It's my fucking seat. They can easily stand the 7minutes it takes to arrive in town.

glowing_dragon August 20 2006, 23:01:13 UTC

Sometimes I feel like that, too!

winterlion August 20 2006, 19:16:50 UTC

Someone who behaved like that I would arrange to have removed from the bus - even if I had to throw them out myself. And even if the bus is moving.

although for some reason they tend to leave me alone (the pushy people). Maybe it's the mask....

surrey_sucks August 20 2006, 19:26:54 UTC

People are going to leave a big guy alone, but they have no problem pushing around (literally) small women.

winterlion August 20 2006, 19:36:55 UTC

If I saw someone doing that to a smaller person - I'd do the same thing. Throw them off myself if nothing else worked.
Nothing gives anyone a right to violate personal boundaries - except violating someone else's personal boundaries.

I recommend to anyone who is treated this way:
Kick 'em in the nards

Asking - acceptable manners. Yelling or insulting - unacceptable but still "civilized" somewhat. Anything else - deserves immediate punishment.

glowing_dragon August 20 2006, 20:58:24 UTC

Yeah, but I got called a bitch when I didn't do anything to the guy except maybe protest. Imagine what I would have been called if I did! (this was an old man, too!)

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whimsicalzephyr August 20 2006, 22:03:28 UTC

Holy CRAP! This is why I take my cane on the bus with me. I don't always needs it, but if people see it, they won't pull shit like this, or won't give me dirty looks when I sit in the courtesy seats.

I would have threatened him with arrest. That's assault, and it's not cool at al.

glowing_dragon August 20 2006, 23:13:21 UTC

Y'know, I think I have a cane somewhere from an operation.. not sure where it is, though.
(I have a mild form of cerebral palsy, and so I limp noticeably)

whimsicalzephyr August 20 2006, 23:59:09 UTC

*sigh* I'm still trying to figure out how to ask for a seat on good days when I don't need the cane. It boils my blood that there are so many liars and tools out there that people might not believe me. At least on bad days, people give up their seat because they see the cane. Still, there needs to be more education for invisible or hidden disabilities, dammit.

PS. I've had juvenile idiopathic arthritis for 22 years....2 hip replacements, babee.

glowing_dragon August 21 2006, 00:29:21 UTC

I'm not saying that I *should* have a seat, and everyone else be darned... but sometimes there are days when I really do need a seat! Y'know?

Yeah, that's a difficult situation. Usually when I ask for a seat (note: no invasion of personal space), people seem willing to give me one. But then sometimes they don't... eh well.

True. More education would be a good thing. Some people would say I'm not that disabled compared to people in wheelchairs and such, and I'd agree. But sometimes I don't feel like comparing mine to other people's.. I know, it makes me sound unselfish. However, I'm not faking it, and I don't feel like going into a lengthy explanation for your average person on the bus.

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