About two weeks ago I was at lunch by myself, eating a bread bowl outside of Panera bread in the patio section. The Panera bread where I work is in a huge shopping center. It's across the expansive parking lot from a Sprouts, and the Sprouts is next to a Walmart, with a restaurant in between the two of them
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Especially since people are dumb fucks and when someone gets stabbed someone is always dumb enough to pull the E-Brake, locking you in with an evil stabby guy.
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Hopefully this makes you feel better: what you and everyone else did was absolutely normal. A woman (Kitty Genovese) was killed on the street in public because everyone thought someone else needed to do something (the bystander effect). The gray area of this situation makes it more difficult to act, given that only public shame would be effective and our societal sense of individualism prevents us from standing up and telling someone that their way is right or wrong.
Situations like this make people feel alone, there's no way of knowing if you were the only one who was so upset about it.
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But next time, yes. I'm calling security, or at least trying. And if it makes it worse, I'd feel bad, but I can't just let that happen again. I know it makes Andrew nervous because he's waiting for the day he has to pick me up from the hospital from getting punched out, but I think in this case there were enough witnesses. It was pretty obvious that he probably would have hit her if they were in private.
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I mean, the competition wasn't the worst. It was pretty sometimes, and it wouldn't have been so bad, but they knew we had plans. They knew it! And then there was a major accident on the way home. By the time we got to Glendale it was close to 10pm and we'd been up and doing shit all damn day. I know it's not Andrew's grandparents fault because they were trying to make everyone happy, but yeah. :(
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I probably would have done the same as you. Ranting to the hubby via text and all. (and he too would have been too busy to text back.) At least you have the conviction now that if it happens again you'll call security. (or continue watching hail a waiter/ess and have them call security so there will be a witness!)
A bread bowl sounds so yummy...
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