There Ain't No Justice
A few weeks ago, I went with my family to the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga. And I was looking at a map display on a wall, and a little girl (about 12, if I had to guess) decided to walk in between the wall and me to get where she was going.
There are a couple of things you need to understand. I wear a size 14 shoe. Also, since I am known to break into song at any given moment, I often stand using a choral singer's footwork....my feet on perpindicular lines, the heel of my right foot in the arch of my left, and the right foot out six to eight inches.
Well, I'm in my choral pose (in fact, I may have been singing, I don't remember) and I'm standing about 2 feet or so from the wall. I'm reading the display on said wall, and this little girl decided to walk between me and the wall. And in walking between me and the wall, the girl steps on the toe of my right shoe, and it causes her to trip and fall.
I was of two minds on the subject.
My first thought was "people are going to think I tripped her." I hadn't, though my second mind on the subject screamed that this was simply justice. I was thinking the first thought as I held out my hand to help her up.
Before she could grab my hand, though, her mother (I assume) jerked her onto her feet and told her how rude it is to walk in front of other people.
My last thought on the subject, again, was of justice.
Yesterday, I was at the book store. I was at the magazine rack, and the tabloid headlines caught my eye. So I stop to read (in the singer's posture) and a grown-ass man tries to get between me and the rack. As he does, misses my foot...and you have no idea how much I had to fight the urge to just raise my foot three inches off the ground. How great it would have felt to see him sprawling.
It's petty, I know.
If you're rude enough to walk in front of me while I'm obviously looking at a display, when there's plenty of room to go behind me, and without saying "excuse me," then I should be rude enough to trip your ass up.
But somehow that would make me the jerk.
A few weeks ago, I went with my family to the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga. And I was looking at a map display on a wall, and a little girl (about 12, if I had to guess) decided to walk in between the wall and me to get where she was going.
There are a couple of things you need to understand. I wear a size 14 shoe. Also, since I am known to break into song at any given moment, I often stand using a choral singer's footwork....my feet on perpindicular lines, the heel of my right foot in the arch of my left, and the right foot out six to eight inches.
Well, I'm in my choral pose (in fact, I may have been singing, I don't remember) and I'm standing about 2 feet or so from the wall. I'm reading the display on said wall, and this little girl decided to walk between me and the wall. And in walking between me and the wall, the girl steps on the toe of my right shoe, and it causes her to trip and fall.
I was of two minds on the subject.
My first thought was "people are going to think I tripped her." I hadn't, though my second mind on the subject screamed that this was simply justice. I was thinking the first thought as I held out my hand to help her up.
Before she could grab my hand, though, her mother (I assume) jerked her onto her feet and told her how rude it is to walk in front of other people.
My last thought on the subject, again, was of justice.
Yesterday, I was at the book store. I was at the magazine rack, and the tabloid headlines caught my eye. So I stop to read (in the singer's posture) and a grown-ass man tries to get between me and the rack. As he does, misses my foot...and you have no idea how much I had to fight the urge to just raise my foot three inches off the ground. How great it would have felt to see him sprawling.
It's petty, I know.
If you're rude enough to walk in front of me while I'm obviously looking at a display, when there's plenty of room to go behind me, and without saying "excuse me," then I should be rude enough to trip your ass up.
But somehow that would make me the jerk.
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