dotinthesky | A Push and a Shove, and the Land that We Stand on is Ours

I just witnessed teenagers attack a group of men in the No. 8 bus. I was on my way home from Brick Lane (having left Kevin behind because he has a larger tolerance of crowds than me), staring out of the bus' window, when I heard a teenage girl talking loudly into her cellphone. She was screaming "how could I call you if your mobile was turned off?" If you've seen the Vicky Pollard skit in Little Britain, multiply that by a 100 and you get the idea.

She kept up the loud behaviour, enliciting giggles from her two friends, until a man talking on his cellphone described her as "trash". After some abuse thrown at him, because how dare him call her "trash", she seemed to move her attention somewhere. The bus then stopped, and as he leaned down to pick up a box of flowers he had bought, she said "take your flowers and go home." Understandably, he stepped on her foot as he walked away; she stood up with a scream and shoved him. His friend, looking completely bewildered, got two shoves and pushes from her, to the sound of her friends laughing. They were proper violent shoves that made one of the guys hit someone sitting up ahead. If that wasn't enough, she then stood up on a seat and tried to spit at them through the window, calling them "cunts".

As you can imagine, I desperately wanted to grab her by the hair and punch her face. Perhaps I'd be applauded by the horrified bus; perhaps I'd end up in the nearest police station. Honestly, with a trip to Brasil just around the corner, I couldn't take the chance of getting in trouble.

Who, in their right minds, calls a London teenager "trash" to their face? They were obviously new in town.

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maybe i should have read the comments between you and other LJers before i posted - they have made me think. having said that, i don't know whether the incident is being over-intellectualized. she shouldn't have been so obnoxious, he shouldn't have called her trash and stepped on her foot, she shouldn't have reacted so aggressively. the way she was behaving would have irritated, even annoyed me. i may even have made assumptions about her in my head that may have been judgmental and unfair. but i wouldn't have approached her politely or otherwise. i really and truly don't know if that's right or wrong.

Ultimately, I think both of them were wrong. But, in the heat of the moment, it definitely felt like he was re-acting rather acting.

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