Picture this: I’m walking around downtown DC with some colleagues, about to enter a museum, when a man in his 60s tells me to shove that “computer” up my ass. I’m standing there looking up something on my phone when this lunatic loses it on me. I’ve never encountered anything like this before from a complete stranger in a public setting, but then again I live in Nashville were people are pretty nice for the most part. I didn’t want to cause a scene in front of my colleagues so I didn’t retaliate (other than flipping him the bird). Have you ever encountered anything like this just for using your phone?
He thought you have a ‘power’ful stomach.
Not about phone but I was kinda teased from a stranger for going to school with my backpack on Saturday or some dude mocking Chinese language (I am not Chinese). Some people driving by calling me 'chink' was pretty common when I lives in South. My Indian friend said he got something similar almost every other day. It is not everyone but those small portion of people are good enough to ruin someone's day constantly. I wonder about offenders home education whenever I get or hear about incidents like this and remind myself to teach my kids right. It is quite amazing that I never got this during five years of my time in Seattle (love here!). Spokane is a different story though as my friend living there experienced scary threat and apparent racism which she never experienced in south. In my home country, this is pretty rare (taking rude to strangers). I think it is cultural that in US people talk to strangers easily whether it is for good or bad.
Nope, but then i dont check my phone before entering the museum 😀
did you stop in the middle of the walkway and block the man?
Eyes up, nerds!
He probably had some kind of frontal lobe dementia. That aggressive and a little crazy.
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Was he homeless? Cuz completely normal
He didn’t look homeless..