The shit I put up with

I don't think you necessarily look like a criminal... I'm a skinny 5'2" white girl that everyone claims looks innocent and I had a similar event happen to me. Here's the story:

One time I was riding the train to university and was running late. As soon as the train doors opened I took off running hoping to catch a bus. I was so focused on making the bus I didn't notice anyone around me. After running for a couple minutes I gained awareness of the people around me and saw this woman running in front of me heading in the same direction which isn't really that strange since a lot of people often have to run from their trains to catch buses.

Eventually I noticed that she kept rapidly turning around and looking at me as she ran. I thought "Why the hell does this woman keep looking at me?" She did it a few times. As I paid more attention to the staring-weirdo in front of me I noticed that she was breathing really rapidly, running into people, and flailing all over the place like a loon. At this point I'm thinking, "what the hell is wrong with this lady?"

I kept running for a bit until we got to an escalator at the train station and saw she was about to tumble down the stairs as she looked back at me another 50X. Then I'm like, "Wait...I think she was on my train." Finally it dawned on me, "oh my god, she thinks I'm chasing her!" I stopped running because I didn't want her to die of a heart attack and also because I started laughing so hard I nearly pissed myself.

Needless to say I missed my bus because I couldn't stop laughing long enough to resume my jog to the bus stop. I still can't comprehend how anyone could look at me and honestly think I'm a threat, but there you go. Apparently I'm terrifying! I still crack up whenever I think about it.

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