It's just my opinion based upon current information and life experiences. I understand that there are many variables. Many aggressive actions are taken by sizing up the offender and the offense. This woman might have been that really crazy one that even with a very quite whisper and polite "would you mind ..." would have set off a maelstrom. One never knows. The others on the bus might have been silently seething and throwing evil eyes towards her way when he spoke up and validated their own thoughts on the subject. We'll never know. Letting offensive behavior continue without correction--however perceived, only furthers that behavior to the detriment of society. Witness current political and social events.But don't you feel that others have the right to ride on a bus without hearing expletives being thrown around loudly. I would have found that much more annoying than the fingernail polish. As for your argument of helping to create a polite society, what would have happened if someone took exception to his actions and jumped up screaming like a lunatic, then someone else took exception to their actions and so on and so forth. She was applying nail polish with no regard for anyone else just like he flew off the handle with no regard for anyone else. He may think he is speaking for everyone but if I were on the bus I would not want him representing me.
Speak softly and they will hear you.
Anger gets you nothing.
GWGuy channels his inner Sun Tzu.
I wonder if she had reached back and bit his nose off in a Tyson move, if he'd still smell the polish???
Yes, she should have bit him and punched him in the the throat and given him a reason to wheeze. What a asshat.
Time to move back to the GHETTO. THUG
How about a punch in the junk, then when he was down paint his fingernails?
a victim in search of a "crime"....I am starting to see a pattern here....
So i'm heading into DC on the 830 this morning. Probably 10 mins before my stop I smell this strong turpentine smell. I look around and there is this stupid young bitch doing her fingernails in black with her headphones on. I shake my head and face forward. Another woman further back in the bus started smelling it and was voicing out "she shouldn't be doing that" etc... By that time the smell began to spread. Another woman/man starting to complain.
I turned around and the dialog was like this:
Me: Hey
Me: Hey, Some people have asthma on this bus.
Woman: (take headphones out) I'm sorry (the look on her face is almost like I'm asking if she wants her daily ####ing foot massage, by this time I'm irritated).
Me: SOME PEOPLE HAVE ASTHMA ON THIS BUS!!!!! (Yelled so loud the bus driver actually let off the gas a bit).
Woman: I'm sorry (small tiny voice).
Me: ####ING #######!!!!! (bus went quiet, another guy looked at me and kind of snickered)
Me: #### YOU'RE SORRY (by this time the bus driver was trying to figure out if he was driving a city bus off branch ave or if he was on a bus coming from Dunkirk, MD)
LOL
Speak softly and they will hear you.
...and you wonder why women in DC are:
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One night I was walling down M street and a woman approached me....
Next thing you know, people are going to have to keep smoke from a barbeque grill in their own yard.If I may ...
I believe he expressed some deserved righteous contemptuous indignation towards an ignorant untrained young woman who didn't have the upbringing to apply her fingernail polish the night prior, or the morning of, her work day before getting on that bus. Somehow, it seems, that many people feel it is their right to intrude, and encroach upon, others space, whatever that encroachment entails, and in this case, air space. What he also did in that moment, was to put others on notice, in case they ever wanted to try the same thing, that certain behaviors on a packed bus, and with no escape, will not be tolerated. Many times, his is the reaction needed in this, "better be quite and keep to myself and don't make a scene" society we have become. Aggressiveness, such as his, in that moment, does help to create, and maintain, a polite society. Also, you have to give him credit. He didn't use any qualifiers as to the woman's race or ethnicity.
If I may ...It's just my opinion based upon current information and life experiences. I understand that there are many variables. Many aggressive actions are taken by sizing up the offender and the offense. This woman might have been that really crazy one that even with a very quite whisper and polite "would you mind ..." would have set off a maelstrom. One never knows. The others on the bus might have been silently seething and throwing evil eyes towards her way when he spoke up and validated their own thoughts on the subject. We'll never know. Letting offensive behavior continue without correction--however perceived, only furthers that behavior to the detriment of society. Witness current political and social events.