Well I did not expect to be told to smile when I had 2 boxes of tampons, a large box of Midol, and a bag of chocolate in my basket, but I guess some dudes have a death wish.
… holy SHIT. That is peak contender-for-darwin-awards RIGHT THERE.
I was walking home from the hospital after having miscarried my first pregnancy and some dude told me to smile. I swear to god I have never been closer to homicide, and I think it would have been ruled justifiable.
I was weeping quietly on a train, having returned home from a funeral, and the guy sitting opposite me leaned over and told me I shouldn’t be sad and needed to smile more.
I had just learned my grandfather had died, and was heading down in the elevator to call my mom to find out about the arrangements, when an older man told me to smile and then called me a bitch for not responding.
Had to go to the bank after euthanizing our 18 year old cat. Could barely remember my routing number while filling out the deposit form, and an older man told me to smile.
I was walking home from a test I knew I had aced and I was grinning ear to ear, and some guy in the street yelled at me, “What you smiling at, bitch?”
My sister was sitting in a restaurant with our niece after they had just walked a mile in about 100 degree heat because her car had broken down and the only reason she was there was because our mom had just died and she was bawling her eyes out. Some guy walked up to her table and said, “Whatever you’re crying about won’t seem like such a big deal later and you shouldn’t waste you’re time crying about it.”
