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This was originally posted on July 1, 2015, at 2:25 AM on blogger.com<\/a><\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

So, yesterday I went to one of two or three orientations for my college. While I didn\u2019t enjoy the ice-breakers, I loved when, while we were in line to get our ID\u2019S, this girl touched my arm before asking me about something from the orientation. I loved that she realized that was all she had to do.<\/p>\n

Nice experience, right?<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t necessarily interesting enough for me to make a point of blogging. But since I\u2019m writing down the other experience, I thought I might as well start with something pleasant.<\/p>\n

Fast forward an hour or so and I\u2019m walking from the F train to my job. I had a guy assist me in finding the stairs (I was heading for a wall) and then going in the right direction once I was above ground (I don\u2019t take the downtown train very often).<\/p>\n

Okay, I\u2019ve exited the station and am now walking along the sidewalk, an earpiece in my ear and my cane sweeping back and forth in front of my body.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou! You need help?\u201d A booming male voice.<\/p>\n

Is he talking to me?<\/i> I think, but then immediately dismiss it until my shoulder is touched, forcefully.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need help?\u201d<\/p>\n

I shake my head.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere are you going?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t worry about it,\u201d I say, pleasantly but dismissively. \u201cI\u2019m fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere are you going? I\u2019m trying to help you.\u201d Keep in mind that this man is shouting this entire time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not comfortable giving you that information. But I\u2019m fine, thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

I start walking away and the guy starts or resumes a phone conversation. I don\u2019t hear all of what he says, but I did catch \u201cblind bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, that was not the first time that I’ve been called that.<\/p>\n

Some people are just angry (even if they\u2019re trying to be helpful). And others need to work on their approach. Why would I accept help from someone who is shouting at me.<\/p>\n

Maybe that was his natural tone of voice. But I still knew where I was going and calling me a bitch was certainly uncalled for.<\/p>\n

But, it’s over now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was originally posted on July 1, 2015, at 2:25 AM on blogger.com *** So, yesterday I went to one of two or three orientations for my college. While I didn\u2019t enjoy the ice-breakers, I loved when, while we were in line to get our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,11],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-public-transportation","category-rants","tag-daily-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}