Wiwille recently posted a horrendously embarrassing story where he felt the need to intervene and stand up for some Subway workers while a man yelled his order at them. Go over and read the story as it's quite funny in an oops I was trying to be helpful but became a jackass sort of way.


It reminded me of this one time I was about to board a streetcar. As people were exiting and I was waiting to get on I notice this young boy ripping up pieces of paper and throwing them out of the window and onto the street. What the fuck??? For those of you that don't really know me, I despise and I do mean despise litter bugs. Not only was he throwing shit out of the window but he was ripping the garbage up into teeny tiny pieces. Maybe he didn't get the memo .... there was no ticker tape parade going on that day.


So I finally get on and as I do I glare not only at the child but at the adult sitting beside him. I then sit directly across from them and as I'm about to ask how the hell they think it's okay to throw shit out the window and how disgusted I am with them both the kid starts freaking out. He grabs the adults hair (which is long) and starts to rip it out of her head and won't let go. Another woman from the back of the street car runs up to try and help her before I can even move an inch. They seem to know one another and the child's name, put him in a non violent crisis intervention move and interlock their legs with his and bend his head over. I look around and realize there are a lot of younger kids on the car with a few adults scattered in between...they're all on some type of excursion.


Turns out the litter bug was autistic and I am really really happy that I kept my mouth shut granted it was not on purpose but only because he started to grab that woman's hair. Otherwise I would have gotten on my soapbox and started telling him he was an asshole and that the "mother" should have taught him better and how the youth of today are not respectful. So sometimes it's best to keep ones mouth shut regardless of what's going on!

Sidenote, I went to school with a guy who turned out to be schizophrenic. He got himself into trouble with the law recently and some jackass wrote a letter to the editor about how he should rot in jail etc. The guy from school broke a few windows people....okay quite a few but not residential properties. Anyway I felt like writing back to the jackass about how you don't always know what is going on and everything is not as it seems. His mental health issues were never printed in the paper so this guy just figured he was some hooligan wasting a Saturday night trashing other people's property. I was absolutely livid and wanted to rip him a new one telling him to get all of his facts straight and to learn the meaning of compassion.