04 May 2006

City Hall Station

A young guy was smoking beside the stairs at City Hall Station.

I climbed up the stairs to wait for a train on the platform. It was a beautiful day today, I took off the jacket I wore.

The young guy, who was smoking beside the stairs, came close to me and asked me for change to use a pay phone.

"Do you have any change to spare to use pay phone or Can I use your cell phone?" – I don't remember exactly what he said, but it was something like that.

I am not comfortable to lend my cell phone to strangers at all. I wonder why people ask like that. Anyway, I gave him 35 cents to let him use pay phone nearby.

As I knew it would happen, he didn't say "thank you." It was my bad that I gave a finger on his back (he didn't see me raising my finger :P)

Younger people's rudeness seems the same in anywhere in the world.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Forget the finger. You should have kicked him in the ass, hard, at the top of the stairs :)

Funny, when you said City Hall Station, my memory went to the LRT in Calgary immediately, in a good way. Reminded me of my U of C days.