Conversely, all my stories could be works of fiction, and you would never know! That's the beauty of it.
So, this really happened. (Or did it? That's for you to guess and me to know.)
Anyway.
There I am on the bus with my trusty headphones in (spy *ahem* people watcher's tool number 4) and the scene sits as such:
In front is a Caucasian blond woman, nice shiny blond hair, with a tattoo of a hawk head on the left bicep and the words "Born Wild" in script on the other. In front of her is an older Asian
man. A trio of Af. Am. mothers with their small children enter. Cue dialog:
Well, to be honest, I have no clue what they said. The point I started paying attention was when the Asian gentleman started screaming at them to be quiet with a strong accent.
"You're being so noisy! All this talk talk talk! I can't hear anything! You need to be quiet!" or some such. The mothers, of course, had to have their say--or their "shout" rather:
"What you talking about! Don't tell ME to shut up! You're so rude! Yah! You're the rude one! I'll talk as loud as I want!" and so on.
The thing that makes this more than just a petty spat on the bus (trips without
them are few and far between) is the lengths that the Mom Side went to to taunt the poor Asian man, who broke out at one point in what I can only assume was Mandarin while shoving his fingers halfway down his ear canals.
Sure, he probably shouldn't have yelled at them in the first place, but for the next ten minutes (literally), they made a point to be really loud, talk about how rude he was and, with the help of the blond woman in front of me, encouraged their brood to make as much noise as possible.
An example:
"I think you have something to say! You wanna be loud? Noisy? You just scream as loud as you can now!"
Really? Can we at least TRY to act like adults, even if we aren't?
Ok, so maybe not. But I can always hope.
