To ask you about maliciousness just because you were just being you?

[VladmirsPoutine]

A bit of a TAAT but I want to know how common this amongst us - not a scientific poll by any margin but curious nonetheless.

I was once grabbed by a man on the tube and when I went to move away he grabbed me again. The first time I thought was an accident but the second time I knew it was considered. I was told by the guard on the platform that sometimes people have bad days - fair enough, but never on any of my bad days did I think to grab a random commuter.

Nothing like that has ever happened to me, fortunately. A "bad day" is not an excuse for that sort of behaviour - the man was a prick and sadly you happened to be within grabbing distance.

A bad day for me will more than likely mean ignoring everyone and everything("i hate people" kinda day) or if anyone pushes my buttons snapping at them,or come and moan on here about it. I've never grabbed strangers because i had a "bad day", or any kind of day really.

No, my 'bad days' have never expressed themselves in terms of sexual aggression towards strangers of either sex on the tube.

Nothing is coming to mind, at least, nothing since I left school/uni.

The man grabbing you seems really off. It's hard to grab someone by accident unless you're trying to stop yourself falling surely?

Oh my what a strange explanation for grabbing someone! Did the guard maybe not understand what happened?

Your thread title confuses me. The guard was an idiot and the arsehole you encountered, sadly isn't unusual. TFL has a campaign against the very behaviour you've encountered and are keen for women to report such incidents.

I remember some drunk idiot constantly banging on my door in a hotel room in a railway station in India, I never slept a wink. The next day a some random man made all kinds of bullshit excuses for this mans behaviour. There was never a second that I thought this man had a point, unfortunately there will be always some people who become apologists for all kinds of abhorrent behaviour.

What does TAAT mean?

The guard knew exactly what had happened. But as it was/is such common place it wasn't a big deal. I guess I just left and got on with it. Man who grabbed me did so in a crowded train so there's enough argument to suggest that he was just going with the ebb and flow off that situation.

supermoon100 Thread about a thread. It's frowned upon on MN.