Sick to the stomach

How are you feeling right now?

Just on my early morning commute to work, sitting on the train and happy to be warm when I hear a person below shouting. I can’t hear what he says but it sounds loud and with an aggressive tone. Other commuters start to take notice and one man actually leaves our carriage to go downstairs to tell the man to pipe down. To my surprise, it works and the man returns. We see these kind of people a lot in Sydney, you don’t want to presume but normally drugs have a lot to do with it. It sends the people crazy and you’re scared to even look at them in case they snap.

When the man returned to our carriage I thought how brave he was to go and speak to the noisy passenger but at the same time, a lot of people would be scared to intervene. What if the passenger returned with a knife or wanted to fight, you just never know these days.

Anything remotely confrontational makes me feel sick to my stomach so I am very grateful for the man who took a no nonsense approach. The train is now very quiet.

What would you do in that situation?

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  1. If it was just me, I’d do my best to ignore it. I have intervened a couple of times (in 70 years) but when someone else was bothered or I thought might need someone to step up. These days, I don’t know because it seems you can’t even imagine everything that could go wrong.

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  3. I hate any type of confrontation so I probably would just have put my head down or pretended to be on my phone reading something. Sadly, in the USA, one would also have to worry about him having a gun as well.

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  4. I get the same feeling you do in those situations, but my reaction would also depend on other factors, like if I felt my spouse was in danger. We never really know how we’ll react until we’re in it.

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