Posted on 04/09/2008 8:22:41 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
The author, or an infectious disease?
Bully and Jerk. Why does he need 5 seats? I mean, we all don’t want scummy folks around us, but 5 seats? There is no right to silence on a train. I hope he pays huge fines.
When you read the article, it will tell you he needed 5 seats because he has a bad back. Yeah, right.
And no, he did not pay huge fines; he was acquitted.
I think he is trying to fight human nature- long commutes do tend to foster socialization. If he really wants to assert his right to be left alone he should consider driving to work or finding a job closer to home.
A dick, for sure.
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What an a-hole! If he can’t stand to have other people around, he needs to get himself a car and drive.
Victim? Or VIGILANTE???
I know it’s a movie, but letting a guy get that close with a knife before you perforate him causes unnecessary facial wounds.
I know the feeling, but I believe the real difficulty is that nobody understands the meaning of “public” or “community” anymore and everyone believes he or she is entitled to have the world the way it would be if he or she were in the living room at home. One example: a father who wanted to read aloud to his daughter on an airplane for 3 hours became outraged when I asked the stewardess if I could have a different seat, as I wanted to study; a mother became outraged because I, wearing a business suit and on my way to a week’s conference where I would not have access to dry cleaning, removed the soap bubble jar from her toddler who was sitting next to me and asked her to please find something for him to do that would not spill. In the latter case she whined “Well, how else am I going to keep him quiet?” and I looked Junior in the eye and said, “Hush!” in the Mom voice and he shut up like a trap. But she was still not amused. And last week on the way home, a Murmuring Daddy was trying to Parent Effectiveness Training his brat who was sitting next to me (Daddy was standing) and demanding that his father place him on his shoulders on a subway car that was too short for that activity -— whereupon the kid let out a screech that, no lie, was just as loud as a Formula One car passing the main grandstand at Monza at full song (I have reason to know whereof I speak). I restrained myself from slapping him insensible, but did tell his father that if he’d warned me the kid was a bat I’d have put in my ear plugs. Daddy murmured, “He’s only a child....”
So it is possible that EVERYONE in that car could have examined his or her behaviour to see if it was disturbing and annoying to others; but I think this guy went about it the wrong way.
Neither, this guy is an idiot.
Ludicrous.
Apparently, this guy never worried about how HE bothered folks, taking up a row of seats and eating his breakfast on the train.
LOL! I love that movie!
If I had to ride one of those trains everyday, I'd find another life quickly.
He’s neither a hero, nor a bully. He’s a liberal dumbass.
Riding a train, taking up five seats, telling others he has a “right to be left alone” on public transportation?
He’s an idiot.
This guy realizes he’s in NEW YORK right? lol
Sooooo, what are they???
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