The best and worst of humanity, in two swift glimpses

[desperance]

The best: I just saw a guy in a manual wheelchair, luggage in lap, working his way uphill from the station. What was obviously a total stranger paused as he passed the other way, and asked where the guy was going, and would he like a push?

I like to think I might've done the same, if t'other guy hadn't got there first, but I was delighted that he had. All three of us exchanged warm grins as we passed, entirely happy with ourselves and each other...

The worst: there is a man. In the Silence Room. Sitting at my table. My table. It is possible that he does not know this - I've never seen him before, he's a newbie - but ignorance in law is no excuse.

I would adopt my Deeply Annoying Sniff, see if that would shift him, but that he has a Deeply Annoying Sniff of his own. Maybe I'll try the Hacking Cough...

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Maybe he's got a Deeply Annoying Sniff of his own because he's trying to get someobdy else to move from where he'd usually be. :)

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

you could try the hacking cough and the scratching - (you know, like you have some weird disease) or try humming "it's a small world" very quietly and intermittantly until he caves in and leaves your table (and then get a sign made up so such horrors can not happen again)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Have you considered the "plunging a carving knife repeatedly into his chest" strategy?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Alas: I had left all my knives at home. You're right, of course; I spend so much time at the Lit & Phil, I should certainly move in some of my domestic comforts.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

After all, do they have a "No Cats" sign? I doubt it.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Not actually a sign. I have discussed the whole cat question with them more than once, and been met with a general negativity.

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Sitting at your table!!!

I laughed and I cried at this at the same time. I think I know just how you feel.

[lyriclemon.livejournal.com]

Why don't you try the Deeply Annoying Elbow to the Ribs strategy? If he falls on the floor hard enough to lose consciousness, you can nimbly jump into his seat.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

you can nimbly jump into his seat.

It's my seat, I tell you, mine...!

*sharpens elbows*

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Much worse than Hitler.