Feuding with a Crazy Woman
Several weeks back I came across one the most bizarre things I’ve seen thus far in the subway (and believe me, seeing a strange thing on the subway is a daily occurrence). A woman started yelling in a low, witch like voice to another woman passing by for no reason at all. She called her a bully and threatened to call the police on her for harassment. This continued until the subway came and by this time everyone around her at either moved away, stared in shock, or laughed at the nonsense she was saying. I minded my own and went on my way.
This past week I came across the same woman but this time it turned into a much bigger debacle. It started off harmless enough. We were heading up the escalator in the subway station when we suddenly heard this woman cursing at the lady in front of her. We all exchanged looks of shock and slight amusement. I was about to tell them that I’ve seen this woman before and to just ignore her but I was interrupted by her yelling how she wished to have been injected with double medication. We all stayed quiet and everyone on the escalator did the same as they listened and chuckled to themselves at what she was saying.
One of my best friends was ahead of her on the escalator and since the rest of us were behind, she stood off to the side once she reached the top and waited for us to join her. This was a mistake as it allowed the clearly unstable woman to turn her attention and anger towards my best friend, who had been minding her business the entire time.
The woman looked at my best friend and started cursing and saying the most ridiculous things to her, such as how she wished to inject her so that her head was three times the size and would blow up. This certainly caught the attention of everyone around us in the subway and she continued to say embarrassing things to my friend who stood there silently in shock at the things this woman was saying to her for no reason at all. The woman finally took it too far when she made a crack at my friend and disgustedly and angrily called her a Jew (which she is not but even so). This is when I got really angry and yelled back.
I admit, I knew that the woman was clearly not all there and never in my life would I get in a dispute with someone so obviously insane. I knew the woman didn’t know what was going on but I couldn’t help but say something when she insulted my friend. I started off telling her to leave and that she can’t talk to people that way but when she started pointing her bus ticket at me like she was putting a hex on me and told me to f*ck off that I lost my patience and mature way of handling the situation. I retaliated by telling her to do the same thing and that people wouldn’t ‘bully her’ if she wasn’t so crazy. At this point, everyone was looking, including a security guard but I just shook my head and walked away. My adrenaline was through the roof and my heart was racing. My friend gave me a hug and laughingly thanked me for protecting her honour. The woman followed behind us, still yelling and cursing, but we eventually got our distance from her.
Looking back, I have ambivalent feelings about the situation. I feel somewhat like a brave honourable friend. At the same time, I felt like I was defending her against a child or little kitten with rabies. Sure, she is evil and vicious but it isn’t entirely her fault. Would it have been better if I didn’t say anything at all and allow her to continue taunting my friend just because of her condition? Yes I feel bad for calling her crazy and telling her to eff off but at the end of the day, I would feel worse if I hadn’t stood up for my friend.
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