a_stranger_yells_at_me tender_square "i don't need any adolescent fucking garbage in my life." 220606 ... tender_square “do you want a bottle of wine from 1890?” 220701 ... tender_square "you wouldn't happen to have a a smoke to spare, do you?" 220820 ... tender_square “that’s a cool dog collar,” hollered a man smoking a cigarette from his back deck. i was confused because ruby was misbehaving and i was disciplining her with her prong collar, though i think the man may have been referring to her red light-up necklace. 221225 ... tender_square "is that a chicken wing?" in response to when i grabbed my ankle with my hand and started thrusting my knee to my elbow on the dance floor. 230115 ... tender_square “hey! our shirts match!” (they did not.) 230205 ... tender_square "cold morning for a walk!" 230427 ... raze "don't look at me. you're not pretty enough for me to be looking at you." 230903 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Not often, but once a young man startled me by shouting, "Crazy bitch!" The reason? I'd startled him first - running around a corner and nearly bumping into him, since we didn't see each other. Still, not exactly the politest reaction. 230903 ... tender_square "are you done with the buoy? because i want to sit on it." 230904 ... tender_square "if you want to stay for the restitution, if you want to stay for the rock n' roll revolution, that's up to you." (shouted by a young man with a graphic novel in his hands, held like the bible as he stood on the street corner and made dramatic gestures with his hands like he was a doomsday preacher cursing those passerby who would be "unsaved.") 230916 ... raze "it's fucking wildlife! there are enough nuts in the park already! you're overfeeding them! fuck you!" (this from a woman who used us as live bait and went out of her way to lead her dog straight into the heart of the squirrels we were feeding, laughing as the two of them ran and scared the shit out of all our friends. she resorted to screaming when her attempt to provoke got no response.) 231125 ... raze "shut up! i'm a loser! argh!" 240524 ... Soma I'll never forget sitting in the transit station on the east-bound side. Sun shining, street up above me; across the tracks was the west-bound station. A man was pacing back and forth, back and forth. I lock eyes with him for the briefest of moments and it's like a switch flips. He starts screaming. Starts cursing. Starts saying these awful vulgar things. In between them, he's apologizing. "You fucking cunt. I"m sorry. Fucking whore. Whore ass fucking shit. I can't control it. Shit fucking goddamn bitch ass woman. I'm so sorry. You go-go-goddamn slut. Gonna teach her a lesson. You're okay. I'm sorry. I won't hurt you. I'm sorry. You fucking whore." The people around him visibly move away. I felt pity, but I also felt like the last thing he wanted was more pity. Having visible problems is just as bad as having invisible ones, I guess. I know when my mind slips, the last thing I want is to be treated differently. 240524 what's it to you? who go blather from