Run!

To the guy whose girlfriend got so violently upset that someone “stole” the seat she was “saving” for you on the subway:

Run. Now. As fast as you can. Don’t look back. Just RUN.

All that anger, smug superiority, and contemptuous vitriol. One day that shit is going to land on you. And then it will. not. stop.

RUN.

(a little backstory: I was sleeping on my normal morning commute, when all of a sudden I felt someone brushing up against my knee, and it was this young kinda punk chick in a pink top doing the usual subway bum rush to get the seat next to me. I was a bit annoyed that she was giving the bum rush to a lady with two kids and a strolled with a third, all while brushing my knee, and without so much as an “excuse me”, but whatever. And then, she goes all ballistic. She’s yelling at this lady next to her. She’s threatening to punch this lady, there is all this racist bile coming out about Chinese people, and I haven’t heard this many F-bomb drops since .. well, ever. Seriously, Sailors and cops don’t curse this much. From what I can gather, after grabbing the seat next to me, pink chick tried to save the seat next to her by putting her purse on the seat, only to have some Chinese lady push it aside and sit down. keep in mind that the boyfriend is OK with standing, and says as much nine times over. And it’s not like pink chick was so concerned about her boyfriend sitting that she ever once volunteers to give her boyfriend her seat. Oh, and for someone cursing up a storm for 20 minutes non-stop about how rude all Chinese people are, did I mention that neither I nor lady with 2 kids and a stroller got even a token “excuse me” as she bum rushed the empty seat? And finally, putting your purse or your bag down means shit. Seats are for people, not packages. I see the Chinese people do it all the time, rush the train and then throw their bags down next to them for their friends. And I hear the same white people like you complain about how totally rude that is. And it is. Bags mean nothing, the only thing “saving” a seat is someone’s ass in it. You don’t like it, too bad, we’re all tired and you can shove it.
But my point isn’t a commentary about subway etiquette, it’s about the need to avoid perpetually angry people. I’ll bet if the situation were reversed, and the Chinese lady put her purse down on the seat, pink chick would have pushed the purse aside and then spent the entire train ride cursing up the same storm about how rude Chinese people are, trying to steal “her” seat. Pink chick is bottled fury, self-centered entitlement fulfilled, rude and vindictive towards all that she holds in contempt, and that includes all her friends (based on the few parts of her conversation that were not about the seat). One day boyfriend is going to do something she perceives as “wrong”, and then he’s never going to hear the end of that shit until he’s dead. And maybe a few more years after that too.)