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Hey lady

Today I found myself taking a ride on public transit, and this particular bus was my third transfer of the morning. I was close to my destination. As the driver slowed and pulled over to the curb to pick the next passenger up, I saw out of the corner of my eye, a middle aged, heavy-set woman, who looked particularly unhealthy and unhappy. And out of the same corner of my eye, I also watched as she quaffed down the last third of her 40. It is a particularly gray day in Seattle, with a light drizzle. It is also 10:38 in the morning.

As the bus came to a complete stop, this large woman approached the rear door. She then slipped off the curb and face-planted into the street, with such exertion and momentum that I am baffled with how she missed hitting the bus. Down she went, taking a header into the asphalt, straight armed and all. The door opens as one man rushes to help, but instead of reaching out she continued to roll around on the street like a turtle on it’s back, whimpering and groaning. Her face is scratched and bloody. The man continues reaching to help, she yells no, slaps away his hand, and calls him the n-word. She then crawls on her stomach from the street into the bus and flops into a seat right behind me and acts as if nothing had happened and then got off two stops later. Bloody face and all. She was in every sense of the word...pathetic.

This is a woman who has had a rough morning. Aside from that, this is also an individual that if natural selection was a more prominent threat to humans in 2015, she stands no fucking chance. It’s not that I don’t feel sympathy for her suffering, or that I wish more pain and suffering upon her, or that I’m even glazing over her infuriating racial slur. What bothers me was her proficiency in assholery and overall inability of cognitive pattern recognition. She made a weird situation into a bad situation into a fucked up situation and saw nothing wrong with that. So lady if you’re reading this here’s 3 tips on the house to help raise your standard of what it means to be a person.

1) Don’t be an asshole. Everyone offers that piece of advice, and it’s really simple to follow. It generally starts with thinking about yourself less. Much like how the man that got up to help was thinking. Before you venture out into your day, ask yourself, “Am I willing to go with the flow if my day doesn’t turn out well?”

Maybe she’s dealing with some mental or physical ailments, as well as addiction. Understandably that would be hard to communicate to other people going through life much easier than you. Which brings me to my next point

2) When help is offered, take it, and move on. Keywords here being: move on. Don’t overstay your welcome and mooch off the systems in place. Always strive to improve your potential. There are plenty of people willing to help (yourself included), but not if you’re going to make it difficult.

3) Avoid 40′s at all costs. I get it though, we all fuck up time to time and cave in to the abundance-in-a-bottle. But there’s really no reason to carry around a human baby sized proportion of sub par alcohol cradling it around as if you were log lady. Please please please, do not consume 40 ounces of malt liquor and attempt to synchronize yourself with the masses. Especially when everyone else is drinking coffee.

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