Wait An Extra Hour For The Bigotry Bus
(I work as a city bus driver in San Antonio and I’m fairly openly transgender… I believe it’s more than obvious even in uniform. I hear and receive a few insults daily. I normally deal with those pretty easily, but today one struck a nerve, mostly because it was aimed at someone else on the bus doing something really nice. An obviously gay man is offering the seat next to them to an old man.)
Old Man: “I don’t want to be seated next to some [homosexual slur]!”
(I park the bus and look back.)
Me: “Then you wouldn’t want to be driven around by one either. The next bus is in an hour. You can catch it here.”
(The whole bus is dead silent for twenty seconds. Then the old man starts cursing me out, calling me every name in the book.)
Me: “Sir, I’m giving you thirty seconds before I call the cops and have you removed off this bus for discrimination.”
(The old man continued cursing but left the second I reached for the phone. The whole bus applauded and pretty much thanked me/congratulated me as they left. The man I defended gave me a five-dollar tip and a thank you as he left!)
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