Thu 20 Jul 2006
Today on my daily metro commute I watched a man freak out and tell a random woman who was exiting the bus in a wheelchair to f**k off. I have no idea what started the altercation being that I was solidly plugged into my mp3 player. I just watched the man get really pissed, point his finger in the wheelchair lady’s face, scream obscenities and then storm off. This was in Capitol Hill, across the street from the Olive Way Starbucks, and a group of yuppies near the bus stop watched the spectacle with a mixture of awe and horror. The woman actually started chasing the guy up the hill in her motorized wheelchair, yelling stuff at him, while the rest of the bus looked on. The bus driver, a kindly older woman, hollered out the door, “Don’t chase him! He isn’t worth it!” The lady disappeared into a used book store, presumably to finish off the confrontation, we’ll never know…