Natty wrote:I I once stood up to a giant crazy guy on the subway who was drunk or high and trying to pick fights with people. He started getting up in a young Hasidic boy's face and spouting incoherent nonsense. The kid was terrified. So I went up to him and said "hey, leave him alone." Before he could figure out exactly why the hell I was talking to him and order his thoughts enough to pound me into a pulp (which would have been the inevitable outcome of any physical confrontation between me and this mountain of a man,) the train pulled into a station, the doors opened, and the cops came on and took him off. Someone had told the conductor and she had called ahead.
Oh yea I did that once. I was riding the bus in austin after an all night shift at a collocation facility downtown, and I am nodding in and out of sleep. A really drunk dude was on the bus (around 8am mind you) and this college freshman aged girl sat in front of him. I zone out, and after a few stops notice he is FUCKING SMELLING HER HAIR, and running it through his fingers. She is just staring dead-eyed into space terrified, like its a bear attack or something.
"Hey!", I yell out to him. No Response.
"Hey you! Leave her alone!"
Nothing. At this point i'm starting to get pissed.
So I get up and walk up to his face, Grit my teeth, and say "I think you better find another seat.. NOW!".
The guy looks at me with a glassy stare, and then staggers up while the bus is moving and sits across the aisle from her. The remainder of the ride continues in stony silence, him avoiding my gaze, me staring the fuck out of him, and the girl staring down at her hands looking like she was wishing she was dead. I was prepared to follow him off the bus if she followed her but he got off first, then she got off quickly a few stops later.
Never once did she acknowledge or talk to me.
So now the adrenaline is totally pumping at I get off at the last stop. The bus driver flashes me toothy grin and says "Man I thought chivalry was dead".
What a dick.