I was in home depot standing in line when one of this kind of fucker being talked about was ripping into the clerk for things she had or could do nothing about. He was ranting about how he waited for ten minutes for help and never did get any, blah blah blah...
Looking back at other people in line it was very apparent that everyone was getting tired of his ranting at the girl. I intervened with a semi quiet "Why don't you just shut the fuck up?" He whipped around prepared to light into me and had already started with "why don't you mind your own fucking business?"
I have seen very few people bite back words as quickly as this guy did when he saw the size of the guy who had just forcefully told him to shut the fuck up.
The girl thanked me as I walked up to the counter, and I got a whole line of laughs and thumbs up.
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
I think you could well apply this kind of terminology to people who stand on the wrong side of the escalator.
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Of course, I approve of defending this girl in the face of the thuggery of the hooligan described; but you could have started off with a very polite request for him to stop, and if he responded in any way other than complete compliance and immediate apology, flared up asked him if he was calling you a cunt and he wanted to have a go?
Thats how I would have handled it.
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Here's the problem with the polite way to intervene, there isn't a way to do it. If you were to ask someone to lighten up that person would turn on you and it might get physical. The only way to intervene with an aggressive and rude person is with pure aggression, if you don't make it definitively aggressive enough to discourage a response back at you it may be on.