It happened to me twice tonight at the same tram stop by 2 different groups.
1. I was sitting with my GF whilst being canoodled (sidebar- never let this happen when you're wearing no boxers and basketball shorts without staying on boner watch). So a couple of the local communitarians come roaring out of the local bottle shop hurling abuse at the shokeep. They referred to him as a "white c*nt", "**** loving fagg*t" etc and rerquested he go "**** his Dad" before leaving with a warnning that he "would be finished off later on". Bear in mind, this came from the 'woman' of the couple. The male was altogether worse.
Despite our best attempts at avoiding eye contact, the esteemed gentleman took acquaintance to our seat. Apart from a gruff order to "move the **** along", a slice of the contents in my pizza box was requested. Upon being informed that pizza was not contained in said pizza box, the sinewy male delineated that I had tried to fool him because he is an Indigenous Australian. To the contrary, I revealed the contents of the forementioned pizza box to be nothing more than garlic bread. Some of his compadries arrived and it was humbly requested by the gentleman that my partner and I find alternatove seating arrangements. We were bid adieu with remarks of "white c*nt" and "g*ok bitch".
2. The festivities were not yet over. Now sitting at the far end of the platform we then encountered a man appearing questionably attached to a plastic bag. he must have misplaced some of his organic ginger under his apple and guava juice because he almost had his entire head in the bag. Obviously, the hot weather caused him to breathe quite heavily whilst buried in there. Anyway, once removed, we could see a distinct lack of teeth and some suspicious white material around his mouth. He asked for a cigarette, a growingly frustrated Funky informed the man he did not smoke. "Ya ****ing stupid c*nt. Go get me some then you c*nt" came the aggrieved man's response, drawing a sustained star from Mr Mit Zeit which precipitated a withdrawal of the inebriated patron.
Now let me ask you...WHY DO WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THIS SHIT? racial oppression, your daddy touched you in the bath, your mummy didnt give you the superman toy...I dont give a ****. tell your social worker or parole officer. You deros only mouth off like this because you know the rest of us have too much to live for. You clowns are half dead drop kicks who have nothing to live for anyway. Why would would we bother getting stabbed, needle sticked or otherwise inconvenienced by the pitiful dregs of humanity? It's not worth it. The last thing I need is an assault charge for bludgeoning the remaining teeth out of some junkie's head (another sidebar- unless he was comatose, I probably couldnt do this anyway).
But I wish we didnt do this. Instead of trying to look away, lets confront them. It doesnt have to be an all-in, just tell them sternly "Step back, your poverty hasnt bestowed you the right to be abusive whenever your begging goes unrewarded. Move along".
This notion that they can go off their nut at someone whenever they want HAS to be confronted. has anyone been down Smith st Collingwood lately, especially around that 'culturally significant' park bench?
Let's stand up to this crap.
XOXO
Funky.