I'm a terrible person apparently

[CreamyGoodness]

On the train yesterday we were all smashed in 'tocks to jocks and apparently the guy in front of me slammed into the guy in front of him.

The guy in front of him turned around and shouted "F@#$ YOU!"

This is nothing new, for sure, but what was new is that he was obviously deaf. It came out "Hnuhk Nuuu"

I shoved my glove in my mouth to keep from laughing.

I am a horrible person.

 

[Varmintman]

Oh dang man. I really need to visit a big city some time

 

[TyTanium]

Can you imagine being so high strung that bumping into someone on a moving train merits a response like that? Holy smokes, wow dude, lighten up.

Creamy, you're not terrible. People losing their cool over something trivial is definitely funny.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I'm in a city that has homeless people with "tell me off for $1" signs. We're a little high-strung as a rule . That said you see a lot of things that are heart warming as well, and I think we appreciate those things a lot more than most.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

On the train yesterday we were all smashed in 'tocks to jocks and apparently the guy in front of me slammed into the guy in front of him.

The guy in front of him turned around and shouted "F@#$ YOU!"

This is nothing new, for sure, but what was new is that he was obviously deaf. It came out "Hnuhk Nuuu"

I shoved my glove in my mouth to keep from laughing.

I am a horrible person.

I would laugh the same as you. guess we are both bad people.

 

[m_c_zero]

You should have acted like you couldn't hear him clearly and made him repeat himself several times.

 

[Hammy71]

You should have acted like you couldn't hear him clearly and made him repeat himself several times.

So I guess that makes me 'terrible-ier" That made me laugh!

 

[Xpertskir]

I laugh and dont feel bad about it...******** can be deaf.

 

[HawksBrewer]

I laugh and dont feel bad about it...******** can be deaf.

Sort of this. As an audiologist I deal with the hard of hearing and the Deaf culture. Being an a-hole is not mutually exclusive with either group. While I don't agree with laughing at someone who is deaf (try wearing earplugs for a week and see how it is), if the guy was a jerk, he deserves what he gets.

 

[processhead]

I think you exercised great restraint and humanity.

You could have got in his face and signed an obscenity back at him, but you didn't...

 

[Varmintman]

Ok I am a care giver for a mentally retarded aunt. While she is 70 years old physically she is a 6 year old mentally. Every week she spends some time with a bunch of other handicapped folks and they do what they do and enjoy themselves.

Well the other day she came home and told me a story about what had happened at her "school" that day. I guess someone was going to sit down and someone else pulled the chair out from under them. That is right not just slapstick humor going on but retard humor going on. And not only was it retard humor but retard on retard humor going on. But the clincher to the whole deal was retard slapstick humor on retard told by a retard. I think I must be retarded because I saw the humor in it and am still laughing about it:fro:

I am still laughing about that and my wife just stuck her head in the office asking what I found so funny. Yup I must be a really bad person I guess

 

[gratus fermentatio]

On the train yesterday we were all smashed in 'tocks to jocks and apparently the guy in front of me slammed into the guy in front of him.

The guy in front of him turned around and shouted "F@#$ YOU!"

This is nothing new, for sure, but what was new is that he was obviously deaf. It came out "Hnuhk Nuuu"

I shoved my glove in my mouth to keep from laughing.

I am a horrible person.

Next time go ahead & laugh, he couldn't hear you anyway.
Regards, GF.

 

[TxBrew]

Can you imagine being so high strung that bumping into someone on a moving train merits a response like that? Holy smokes, wow dude, lighten up.

Creamy, you're not terrible. People losing their cool over something trivial is definitely funny.

I can't even imagine being on a train. Is that like a super long bus or something?

I'm in a city that has homeless people with "tell me off for $1" signs. We're a little high-strung as a rule . That said you see a lot of things that are heart warming as well, and I think we appreciate those things a lot more than most.

I don't know. I've never seen a homeless person get verbally abused for a dollar but I have seen a lot of heart warming things. I don't think the contrast if neccesary to increase it's value.

 

[passedpawn]

I'm in a city that has homeless people with "tell me off for $1" signs. We're a little high-strung as a rule . That said you see a lot of things that are heart warming as well, and I think we appreciate those things a lot more than most.

I let my wife do that to me for free. How's that for heartwarming.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

You dont have a subway in Austin? I'm betraying my own ignorance here.

I think the blackout of 2002 cemented the fact that I would live here my whole life. No mass transit, so all us Queens people had to walk the length of the Queensboro bridge to get home. When we got to the Queens side of the bridge young men who live in the projects were at the end of the offramp with gallon jugs of water and paper cups for the elderly and small children.

Take that bin Laden.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

You dont have a subway in Austin? I'm betraying my own ignorance here.

I think the blackout of 2002 cemented the fact that I would live here my whole life. No mass transit, so all us Queens people had to walk the length of the Queensboro bridge to get home. When we got to the Queens side of the bridge young men who live in the projects were at the end of the offramp with gallon jugs of water and paper cups for the elderly and small children.

Take that bin Laden.

There are no such things as subways or basements in texas. Especially where i live which is basically built on a swamp. So a basement will be a no-no but i'll like to have one

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Well, I would call Chicago's "El" a subway as well, even though its not underground. There is no way in hell I'm going to call it a "superway"

 

[KurtB]

You don't have to call it a "superway", just call it what it is - The Elevated (or 'L' for short) even though quite a bit of it is at or below ground.

Now as for a subway in Austin, there are at least 29 of them, with another one opening soon, according to the subway.com website.

For the record, I guess I am a terrible person as well seeing as I also laughed at your initial description of what happened on the train.

 

[sfrisby]

When we got to the Queens side of the bridge young men who live in the projects were at the end of the offramp with gallon jugs of water and paper cups for the elderly and small children.

Take that bin Laden.

That. Is. Awesome.

 

[NeighborsBrewingCo]

Moved out of the city for this reason hahah.


Brooklyn!

 

[maltoftheearth]

When living in London my friend and I were accosted by a mentally ill man asking us for 5 quid so he could buy a subway pass to another zone (London has, I think, 6 total zones and you pay by the number you travel across.) We told the man he could use our passes as they were 24 hour passes and we were done for the day.

Clearly he wanted the cash for something else b/c he started screaming and biting his hand (hard!) and yelling "I need to go to zone six!"

I was taken aback but my friend had the presence of mind to tell him kindly not to eat his hand in our presence and we moved on. Thought for sure we would be in a bumfight for that comment but the wacko moved on.

 

[OrdinaryAvgGuy]

I have a lot of family in NY and went to visit them 10 or so years ago.

Coming home from the airport a guy remained stopped at a green light for 2 seconds. Next thing I know, everyone is blowing their horn and I see a middle finger go out the window.

First time in my life (21 at the time) I have actually seen someone give the bird in traffic. Welcome to the BIG APPLE!

When my wife moved down south I had to explain to her that the horn was reserved mainly for emergency situations only and not a suggested Fock you when you cross paths with an a-hole.