Piss Off!

Today, as I stood waiting for the bus to come home, with my headphones in (I listen to my discman on the bus so no one will talk to me, or that's the hope anyways), listening to my new Evanescence cd, I saw about eight young guys, probably about 13-15ish in age walking towards the bus stop.

Now a few years ago, maybe even a few months ago, this would have intimidated me. Something about young males, and they are always stupid and immature (okay that was a generalization, but most of them are at that age). As they walked by, a couple of them were making fun of an older man who was sitting at the bus stop because he was wearing a hat that looked like a train conductors hat.

Then they came up to me, and one young man asked me if I would pay him $1 if he allowed the approaching bus to run over his foot. I could hear him perfectly fine, because I never listen to the music too loud. But he was being a smartass, and I felt like being one right back, and I felt bad about the old man they had been picking on. So I was standing there saying louder than I had to (like a person does when they have headphones on), I am sorry, I can't hear you, I have headphones on. And he was motioning for me to take them off, and I said no, I can't hear you. And he started yelling at me to take them out, and I finally said, why don't you just piss off? And then my bus pulled up and I got on, and as we drove away he was screaming at me about being a loser.

Now for those who know me, I don't usually stand up for myself, I just usually kinda just stand there quietly and give people dirty looks if they deserve them. But I felt so good after that, and he just couldn't believe that I had told him to piss off. I don't usually say stuff like that (I hate the word piss), but he deserved it, it was for me and the old man in the train conductors hat!