Anonymous:I swear, I am a really polite person, but old Korean women turn me into a monster. This morning an old woman got on my always very crowded bus at rush hour and stood right in front of the exit door with both arms out holding onto poles, blocking the whole exit. Obviously she was not so frail that she couldnt’ stand on her own seeing as she was clad in a hiking outfit complete with visor, backpack, and boots, obviously on her way to hike somewhere. Then, when the bus stopped at the busiest stop where almost everyone gets off, she just refused to move… I was standing right behind her and I said “excuse me” and a bunch of other people said it, too, and she turned around and looked at us and still didn’t move… so I just took her hand (shriveled old crone talon), physically removed it from the pole, and elbowed my way out of the bus. No regrets. I mean, I feel kind of bad since she was old, but you know she wouldn’t have thought twice about elbowing me and stepping on my toes if I was between her and an empty seat on the subway. When in Rome. Push, shove, and be rude to others as the elderly Romans do!
