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Me and my friend Setras had a brief conversation after having spent some time playing Diablo 2 together. This happened just before I got home, which was just before he messaged me to ask in case I wanted to play some. I literally had only gotten off my shoes when the notify ding came in.
So, here's the relevant section.
Setras says:
you bakc yet?
Lenny says:
Yup! 
Lenny says:
LOL, I almost got beat up today by a drunk!
Setras says:
not very lol, I think
Setras says:
what happened?
Lenny says:
Nah, not really lol, no. It was kinda creepy. I was on the bus... This guy comes on, sort of an older man. Beard stubble, some furrows on his face.
Lenny says:
He starts talking to himself, then starts talking to a young girl sitting on the row behind me.
Lenny says:
She's very pretty but VERY young, like 12 or something.
Lenny says:
She doesn't answer back at first but he keeps talking to her.
Lenny says:
First just about stuff, he complains about christmas, then asks what she thinks. She likes christmas, well DUH, she's a kid.
Setras says:
Lenny says:
Then he asks for her name. She hesitates - obviously - but then answers, so he asks for her middle name.
Lenny says:
He says he thinks her name is pretty, then, before he has a chance to ask for her last name or worse, where she lives, I start to stare at him.
Setras says:
Lenny to the rescue!
Lenny says:
He notices before too long and starts to argue with me, calls ME a pedophile and wants to fight.
Lenny says:
Well, I am carrying a backpack with 18 kilos of iron in it, but there is a dumbbell bar that kinda looks like a Diablo2 scepter in it that I could have used on him to cause some serious damage had he really wanted to mess with me.
Lenny says:
Except, he didn't. He just screamed obscenities at me when I got off the bus, called me a cocksucker (which is rather ironic though he couldn't know, lol)...
Lenny says:
He stayed on, and that was the last I saw of him.
Setras says:
Sounds like he was a real son of a bitch
Lenny says:
A creepy drunk who approaches little girls. Yuck.
Lenny says:
I kinda wish he'd started a fight so I could have beat the shit out of him with my scepter.
Lenny says:
Except, my clothes would have become bloody and that would have been yukky.
Setras says:
yup... but end's well, all's well
Lenny says:
Yeah, the girl got off the stop before I did, so he didn't have a chance to pressure her for any more info.
Lenny says:
Besides, the buses are full of cameras too, but I didn't want him to keep talking to her.
Lenny says:
What a creepy, slimy guy...!
Setras says:
yeah, sounds like it
Add to this, I haven't been in a real fight since like fifth grade when I was a new kid in school and some bullies wanted to push me around. I don't like to fight, and I'm not really a particulary brave person. I sometimes have too big a mouth for my own good.
However, this time I kinda guess it was worth it. It didn't feel right having that guy talking in that way to a girl like that, considering his age (though he probably looked older than he really was due to the life he's living), and hers too of course, and that she was so pretty with long blonde hair & stuff.
I don't know if he seeked her out, sat down across the aisle just to speak to her, but I can't help thinking he did. Especially due to the way he reacted when I got involved.
He knew what he was doing, I'm pretty sure of that. He wouldn't have started talking like that with a woman, or even someone in her upper teens. He counted on her feeling intimidated and pressured into starting to talk back, so he could pry her defenses open more and more. Yuck! *shivers*
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Faster than a rolling drunk. More powerful than a loco-hobo. Able to save small children with a single word. ;-D ;-D ;-D But seriously Lenny, good job. You should feel like a hero, you may have saved that girl. Many people speak to children on board trains etc, but when they start asking for names, they're likely looking for more than just conversation.
Glad you got out ok, and glad the girl got home safely.
{{{HUGS}}}
Think good thoughts,
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well, they always say we're supposed to pick our battles (whoever "they" are, heh!), and in this case i think it would have been founded, had you have had to do anything. i'm GLAD it didn't go to that, and it's always best not to, but you just never know.
wow ... so brave! *starry-eyed, lol!*
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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marc
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There is reason to cheer.
I think this little girl will remember the nice man that distracted that lothsome piece of offal for a long time to come.
She will never know your name and there is little chance of any reward other that the good warm feeling when you do something truely selfless.
Lenny, I know we have had our little differences, lets put all that aside, today I put a gold star by your name and this teacher gives you an "A+" in nice.
Well done.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Actually a little scared. But you did an aweosme thing
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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That's why I asked why I should feel heroic, because my heart was thumping for like ten minutes after I got off the bus, and I was a bit shaky too. Wasn't a very nice feeling actually. Hope it was worth it though, that if the girl felt uncomfortable, by making that yucky man focus on me instead, she could get some more space.
Thanks guys, all who replied.
Hugs!
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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marc
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Lenny,
There is nothing wrong in feeling fear. It is the thing that keeps us in balance.
If you are confusing fear with cowardness.... DON'T
They are two very different things.
The heart thumping, the yukky feeling... Those are the feelings of your strength, that fire within you that gave you pause to confront that awful man. As with any fire, it takes a little time for it to cool off.
Indeed, it was worth it. That man will think twice the next time he gets on a bus. That little girl will also know there are nice people in her world as well.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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You are a hero Lenny!
Sorry it took me so long to reply, I can't legally check my webmail from schoo.
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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If we turn our heads and pretend not to see, we diminish ourselves. You did good.....real good 
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If you want to evaluate how well you did in that situation, just compare your decision with everybody else's on the same bus who turned their heads and ignored it! Most people end up doing that...being afraid to get involved.
You didn't.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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timmy
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The cameras have given me an idea. A seriously good idea.
Report the incident formally.
He will be on camera and may be known for this sort of thing.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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saben
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But fortunately I didn't need to act, and it was other adults involved, not a single children. I was on the trains here in Japan and a drunk Japanese guy came up and started talking to some Japanese lady of maybe 20 along with her boyfriend and another guy who was sitting next to her. I saw him swaggering through the train compartments and then he came up and leaned down next to this one 25ish year old woman who was sitting down sleeping and said 'yasashii' which means either 'nice' or 'easy' depending on the context. At that point I sort of perked up and decided that as he was quite near me in the crowded train, that should he actually try to physically do anything, then I'd give him an elbow to the face. But he just went on, and started talking to the other girl and her boyfriend and although she looked very uncomfortable and just gave the nervous Japanese laugh to his comments (which I could only half understand). I was going to tell him to 'shut the hell up,' or as close as I could manage in my limited Japanese, but he left the train before things got so tense. There were lots of other people that could have handled him if he did try anything, but I was kind of happy that I had committed myself to the situation was I needed.
Your situation was even cooler and yes, you are a hero. We know that the little girl got off the bus alone and safetly, we have no idea what could have happened otherwise. There is so much, that potentially, you saved her from. She'll never know her rescuer's name, she'll never know what could have happened to her, but now she doesn't need to know.
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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Well done Lenny
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words
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Should I feel heroic? 
Thanks Marc! 
I'm very proud of you, Lenny 
Wow! 
