Faith in mankind
I got on the T yesterday after a really long day and a horribly taxing rehearsal and I go to sit down and at Hynes going into Kenmore, this really drunk homeless man (with an open 40 next to him), starts reaming on this group of kids standing in the middle of the train. He kept yelling stuff like "I don't deal with no fucking niggers", and other really bad racially inappropriate things to say. He was clearly belligerent, but I don't think it's necessarily just from drinking. It was kind of a ruckus and definitely smelling a lot like cheap beer - and even more so after he proceeded to spill it all over the T...
However, a ton of people were avoiding him and talking about him and all of a sudden, this guy comes from the other side of the train and sits down on the steps next to this guy and just starts talking to him. "Hey, how are you today?" "What's wrong?" "You shouldn't be drinking that on the T..." and all that jazz. He completely calmed this guy down, and the guy started going on and on about all the stuff. He would answer the guys questions ("Where are you" - "I'm fighting in the civil war"), so there was obviously something wrong, but it was the nicest and most selfless thing I had seen someone do in a while.
Today we salute you, Mr. I'll talk to the drunk guy on the T while everyone else tries to avoid him guy. It takes guts to do what you do, and it's also one of the nicest things I have seen in public by strangers in a really long time.
Thank you.
However, a ton of people were avoiding him and talking about him and all of a sudden, this guy comes from the other side of the train and sits down on the steps next to this guy and just starts talking to him. "Hey, how are you today?" "What's wrong?" "You shouldn't be drinking that on the T..." and all that jazz. He completely calmed this guy down, and the guy started going on and on about all the stuff. He would answer the guys questions ("Where are you" - "I'm fighting in the civil war"), so there was obviously something wrong, but it was the nicest and most selfless thing I had seen someone do in a while.
Today we salute you, Mr. I'll talk to the drunk guy on the T while everyone else tries to avoid him guy. It takes guts to do what you do, and it's also one of the nicest things I have seen in public by strangers in a really long time.
Thank you.