My disgust in humanity has been renewed.

[Suu]

This is dedicated to TGRR, since he seems to enjoy my ranting so.

I saved a life last night.

No rly! I did! I'm a hero! Go me!

This is a tale of how a good deed did, in fact, go unnoticed, and why I am in pain this morning...

As it's been previously stated, I commute from Providence to Boston for work and vice versa on the way home. The train I take home is typically the 8:15pm local. It's evil, I hate it, but for 8% more on my paycheck every other week, why the fuck not?

I always go to the first forward-moving car, which in the case on the way home is the one right after the engine. I do this for two reasons:

One: The noise of the engine tends to control the crowd in the car.
Two: Most lazy Americans don't want to walk the length of the platform to GET there.

So I do my thing as usual, with the daily Metro in hand cursing at the crossword puzzle and solving the Sudoku in about 3 minutes. This train takes about an hour and 5 minutes to get into Providence.

The last thing I want to do when I exit this train is involve myself with human contact of any kind. I'm tired, I want to go home, and typically I have to piss like a racehorse because I'll be damned, even in the gravest of circumstances or status of my bladder, to use the facilities on board of an MBCR train.

The train pulls into the station, and I high-tail it to the rear of the car, passing by a young black woman who is chatting away on her Sidekick and ignoring what I assumed was her small (3-4 year old) son. So I go to the door, and someone in front of me opens it. Now, for those that have never been on a commuter train, especially the car that attaches to the engine, the doors tend to be pretty heavy and are hard to latch open, so you really have to THROW it to the side to exit the train. Well the person in front of me didn't really push the door open hard enough, and I slipped through before it was slamming back. However, the wayward kid who was being shunned by his gossiping, Baby Phat and Apple Bottoms-glittering mother, decided that he wanted to follow........Just as that door was about to crush his skull.

Call it a '6th sense', call it 'woman's intuition', or just call it 'not wanting to deal with being a witness to a little boy being turned to goo in front of his mother and a potential lawsuit to MBCR', I dove back into the closing door, screamed, "WATCH OUT!" and pushed the kid out of the way. He fell back in front of his mother and I took a steel door to the left shoulder. I threw the door back with my weight and locked it in place, and caught eye-contact with the boy's mom, who stopped talking for a moment.

She looked at me, looked at her son, looked at me, looked at her son, then said straight out to him, "Next time you don't stay by me I'm gonna throw your ass off the fucking train if that's what you want!"

I was dumbfounded. No thank you, no nod, no nothing. Just verbal abuse to her son and back to her fucking phone as if nothing happened.

So I walked to the station, and replayed the events in my head...Then came to this conclusion:

Like a finger in the power-socket, the kid has to learn. Next time, let his skull get cracked, because my shoulder would thank me for it. Put your kids on a leash, kthxbye.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Har har!  This is Jehovah1 punishing you for doing Sudoku.

Nobody does that shit.

Next time, rather than just looking at the mother, tell her to "HANG THAT FUCKING THING UP AND WATCH YOUR KID, LADY!  BE RESPONSIBLE, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!"

It won't help, but it WILL make it more likely that you'll show up on COPS that week.

[Thurnez Isa]

and will make the lady feel bad rather then the kid

[AFK]

Heh, it's funny how some people who shouldn't reproduce do.

That kid is going to turn out just fine. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Heh, it's funny how some people who shouldn't reproduce do.

That kid is going to turn out just fine. 

You really never can tell but you sure as hell can stack the odds.

[Jenne]

Well, no good deed goes unpunished, yadda yadda.

That lady was a total bitch, true.  And you did defeat the Darwinism principle that was in effect, true.  And your lack of faith in humanity was restored by your own altruism, true.

All in all, it was a Monday.

[Suu]

All in all, it was a Monday.

Holy shit, was it ever! Though I did get taken out to eat for ribs. 

[Jenne]

Oof.  See, now I'm jealous.  I haven't been taken for ribs for years.  Dammit.

[Dr. Cow Ass]

I'm not surprised, good job saving the kid though. I feel bad for the kid, his mom obviously doesn't want him and niether does the dad. I know what I said is prejudice, but, sadly, it's probably true.

[Suu]

Oh I know my tax dollars paid for her Jordans. Please.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm not surprised, good job saving the kid though. I feel bad for the kid, his mom obviously doesn't want him and niether does the dad. I know what I said is prejudice, but, sadly, it's probably true.

How the fuck do you infer the dad's thoughts on the matter?

Because she's black?  Yeah, I'd say that's prejudice, which makes you a world-class twit, IMO.

TGRR,
Is laughing at you.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Oh I know my tax dollars paid for her Jordans. Please.

Cripes.

[B_M_W]

Heh, it's funny how some people who shouldn't reproduce do.

That kid is going to turn out just fine. 

Humans shouldn't reproduce. NOT just sayin'.

[AFK]

There are plenty of awful parents who aren't supported by the state.
And there are plenty who are supported by the state who are good parents.

Bad parenting knows no class boundaries. 

Please to be referring to Paris Hilton. 

[Suu]

It's true, I've seen some trashy white folk who are no better. But I did here her conversation, and she was in fact bitching about collecting her "weeks". Which typically means unemployment, but who knows. I didn't feel that was initially relevant to my story.

I have great respect for people who, although they receive government aid, do their very best to support their family in trying circumstances. But when I see someone wearing a substantial amount of what I would consider to be needless name-brand or designer clothing, not caring for their kids, and carrying on a phone conversation about their financial situation, it irks me that my tax dollars couldn't go to something a little better, like education perhaps, so these people can get good jobs or learn not to reproduce at a young age.

Either way, it was wrong for me to judge, but I have a fucking grudge against the government for taking away my scholarship by 'impartial lottery' my last semester in college to put more aid into the welfare program. Granted Providence isn't NEARLY as bad as Florida, ie. the girl who gave birth in the bathroom in my high school and threw the baby out in the trash, or my friend who was married at 15 because she had twins and her uber-Christian parents couldn't stand to have a sinner in their house so they took her to Georgia with her boyfriend to wed so it was legal, as you can't marry that young in FL....

Yeah, I'm fucking bitter, and I'll shut up now.