mean people
After a horrible day (it's finals week.... everyday until it's over is horrible), I was walking back to my dorm talking on my phone. I don't talk any louder than in my normal voice on the phone, because I don't feel that anyone else would want to hear what I'm saying anyway. Regardless, a group of 3 guys walked passed me, and as they did, one guy said, "Hey lady, we're trying to walk here. Don't yell on your phone!"
I was so hurt/angry/disgusted/wanted to pin him on the sidewalk and punch him in the neck.
I didn't do that though. However, I did respond, "I wasn't yelling!" which was ironic because that was yelling. He simply retorted, "Yes, you were."
So why did this event occur?
Let's look at it mathematically:
Case 1: I was yelling. The probability of this was low, as I hardly ever yell on my phone, especially when talking about something very painful, which I was. I was actually trying not to cry, thus, probably not yelling. Regardless, perhaps this male creature has a different set of parameters for:
x
[quiet, loud].
However, he was an NU student, and thus knew that it's finals week. Everyone knows everyone is completely a mess during finals week. Now, in a group of 3 people, none of which were supporting him, why would he become an aggressor to a random person like me, who was probably not yelling? Answer: he was a jerk modeled proportionately to 1/(x^(.5))... or pretty much this graph.
Case 2: I wasn't yelling. In which case, he's an undefinably high level of jerk. Where's a herd of stampeding elephants when you need them?
*tears hair out*
I'll be much happier by 11 a.m. tomorrow when my finals are over.... that is, if I do well.
I was so hurt/angry/disgusted/wanted to pin him on the sidewalk and punch him in the neck.
I didn't do that though. However, I did respond, "I wasn't yelling!" which was ironic because that was yelling. He simply retorted, "Yes, you were."
So why did this event occur?
Let's look at it mathematically:
Case 1: I was yelling. The probability of this was low, as I hardly ever yell on my phone, especially when talking about something very painful, which I was. I was actually trying not to cry, thus, probably not yelling. Regardless, perhaps this male creature has a different set of parameters for:
x
[quiet, loud].
However, he was an NU student, and thus knew that it's finals week. Everyone knows everyone is completely a mess during finals week. Now, in a group of 3 people, none of which were supporting him, why would he become an aggressor to a random person like me, who was probably not yelling? Answer: he was a jerk modeled proportionately to 1/(x^(.5))... or pretty much this graph.
Case 2: I wasn't yelling. In which case, he's an undefinably high level of jerk. Where's a herd of stampeding elephants when you need them?
*tears hair out*
I'll be much happier by 11 a.m. tomorrow when my finals are over.... that is, if I do well.