Just last week in shopping center in Springfield, VA, I witnessed a young woman using the crosswalk in the parking lot and a beat-up old clunker sedan raced up and darn near hit this young woman (me too).
The young woman yelped loudly as the car passed by. Scared her a lot. Me too.
The driver of the vehicle (with DC plates), turned around and pursued the young woman and stopped behind her vehicle (she was not yet in it). The driver lumbered out (all 200lbs of her) and lunged at the young woman. The driver was screaming, yelling and saying things like, “I'll whup yo’white ass!” “I'll cut you ho!” “cracker beat down, cracker beat down, cracker beat down.”
The young woman, your basic 20-something little thing, was terrified and started running, pursued by the enraged animal. She ran toward me, one lane away. You could see absolute terror in her eyes. The young lady hid behind me and when the animal started to slap/punch around me to get at the young woman, I simply knocked the poo out of the animal. After the enraged animal got up, she tried to attack me and again I knocked her down. All the time the animal was spewing the most foul and racist language you can imagine. The animal then went away, never once stopping her rants.
I am curious, according to your Granpa, was I a coward to act the way I did.
(Never did call the police, too much of a bother.)