An elderly woman on the bus started being rude to a young girl and insulting her parents, but then the girl did something unexpected 😱 😱
I was riding home on the bus, as usual, after work, completely tired. It was evening, people were just as exhausted, their faces in the semi-darkness, buried in their phones.
At one of the stops a woman got on – about 60 years old, well-groomed, fashionably dressed, with a tight ponytail and a neat bag. There was no room, of course. She exhaled loudly, rubbed her lower back and glanced at those sitting. No one moved.
At the end of the salon a girl was sleeping – young, disheveled, with a large backpack and a phone in her hands. She was really asleep: her mouth was slightly open, her head was thrown back.
The woman came up and muttered something under her breath. The girl didn’t react. Then she pulled her hair and started cursing.
“Didn’t they teach you to respect your elders?!” she shouted throughout the bus.
The girl shuddered, woke up, and looked around in confusion.
“I… was sleeping. You could have just asked,” she said calmly and quietly.
Silence. The salon froze. The woman seemed to mistake the calm for weakness.
– So you grew up to be a boor! An ungrateful witch! – she spat, raising her voice.
It was getting awkward. The girl sat as if pressed into the seat, but she didn’t look away.
“You had no right to touch me,” she squeezed out. “I would have stood up if you had addressed me normally. But you immediately started screaming and being offended.”
The woman got excited again and suddenly started talking about her parents: they say they need to be re-educated, they are fatherless, they have no manners…
And then the girl did something, after which the woman shut up, and all the passengers were in complete shock 😱😱
The girl suddenly took out a bottle of water and poured it on the woman – carefully, without hysteria, but firmly.
“Don’t touch my parents,” she said quietly, but with such confidence that an icy silence fell over the salon.
The woman was speechless. Someone giggled, someone gasped.
“Maybe that’s enough?” a male voice came from behind.
Several other passengers supported him:
– She was just sleeping…
— What do parents have to do with it?
The woman sank. Her face was wet, her makeup was smudged. But the girl wasn’t celebrating either – she simply stood up and adjusted her backpack.
“I would have given in, really. It’s just that no one asked me nicely,” she said and got off at the next stop.
A heavy silence hung in the salon. No one knew whose side to take. Everyone was just asking themselves internally:
“What would I do?”
The woman wiped her face with a napkin. Maybe she really was having a hard time, maybe she was going through a lot of pain in her life… Or maybe she was just tired of being unnoticed.
The driver turned around:
– One more scene – I’ll put everyone out. Enough. I’m more tired of this life than all of you together.
“And if this happened to you, whose side would you choose?”
