Ex Squeeze Me! I am not a drug addict!

[TealJellyfish]

I was on the train yesterday. I was wearing heels and pretty tired and due to my health problems I look like .. well death. Pale, and sickly and I think I'm loosing weight as well... ergh! I was leaning on the pole with my eyes closed and I over hear this conversation.

Old lady: OL
OLF: Old Lady Friend
Me: *waves*
NL: Nice Lady

OL: There are so many damn drug addicts in this city!
OLF: I know. Its disgusting!
OL: God Shouldn't allow it! This world youth day should be an example to people like her!

I live in Sydney. We are currently hosting World Youth Day. A Massive Catholic Event. The Pope is here and massive amounts of crazy happy catholic young people are here. Its insane but kinda cool cause they are all so happy!

At this point I open my eyes and realize she is glaring at me! So apparently I look like a drug addict. Awesome!

OLF: Look in her bag! Filled with DRUGS!
OL: I know! Filthy creature!
Me: *stares in shock*

I realise she is looking in my Handbag which at my feet! I wanted to sink through the floor. The whole carriage was staring at me! In my bag I have Prescription Pain Killers and Anti Nausea medication so that I can function and go to work.

OL: *sees me looking at her* Your mother should be ashamed of you!
OLF: *glares*
Me: *almost crying*

Luckily at that point the train stops and OL and OLF gets off at the stop and the carriage goes back to ignoring me!
So apparently I'm a Drug addict! YAY me! I wish I had of said something but because of my Nana I have serious trouble telling old people off!
I hate judgmental people and I can't imagine what those two would be like as customers!

EDIT: I totally missed the end of the story!! Blame the Drugs People! After the old lady and her friend got off I sat down in their seats and the lady who was sitting this conversation ensued
NL: Good Grief What the Heck was wrong with those Woman!
Me: *tries to smile* No idea!
NL: Obviously you are run off your feet and tired not on drugs! *shakes head* Some people!
Me: *actually smiles!* Thanks!
NL: Its alright! Old Hags probably have nothing better to do than make up gossip to make their lives interesting!

[Kiarna]

Man wish I'd been on that train with you......
Hey just think, most people wouldn't have ever noticed.....so obviously their lives are soooo boring they need to create interesting stories to amuse them.......

You look fine not drug addict-y at all!

[TealJellyfish]

Man wish I'd been on that train with you......
Hey just think, most people wouldn't have ever noticed.....so obviously their lives are soooo boring they need to create interesting stories to amuse them.......

You look fine not drug addict-y at all!

Thank you darling! Wish you had been there yesterday! Would of been funny to watch!

[marasbaras]

Old people need telling off just like everyone else.

[TealJellyfish]

Old people need telling off just like everyone else.

Had it been anyone under 60 I would of gone off my rocker but she looked like someones nana and my brain just went

[Willis]

So apparently I'm a Drug addict! YAY me! I wish I had of said something but because of my Nana I have serious trouble telling old people off!

Man. I have trouble too, but once they start looking in my bag and judging me, that's when I'd tend to place them into same category as everyone else. Basically their old asses would get told off. Not as nasty but they'd hear some words.

[Supermarket Slave Girl]

That's where respect for the elders goes out the window, if I was on that train with you I would of given them a right telling off.

Bloody old busy bodies gotta keep their nose out of people business.

[smileyeagle1021]

I'll ditto what others are saying about how age is not an excuse and you should have at least said something to them...
... oh and in the character introduction you introduced Nice Lady but you never actually had a nice lady in the story...

[reimero]

That reminds me of a tale from my college days in Washington, DC.

I was going to a party off-campus with a friend of mine, riding the Metro. Now, there are two relevant side pieces of information. First, I had just put in a TON of hours at my campus job (incidentally located at the DuFour Center), so I was going to be getting a healthy paycheck. Second, there was a big GLBT Pride march going on that weekend, so there were a lot of out-of-towners there for the event.

Me: Duh
JG: My friend
V: (Presumed) visitor in town for the march (the rainbow pin was a good hint.)

Me (to JG): I'm expecting about $500 from DuFour
JG: Lots of business, huh?
V (not in the conversation, but obviously listening in without trying to look like he's listening in):
Me: Yeah, normally it's less than half that.
JG: *gives me a knowing look* Sounds like your "arrangements" are working out.
Me: Definitely. And it looks like I'll be in demand next week as well.
V:

At this point, the subway stopped at a station, and V couldn't get off fast enough.
JG: He totally thought you were a dealer!
Me:

[chainedbarista]

why some older people feel the need to 'air their opinions' wherever they go stymies me; would they appreciate it if we got into a discussion about their wrinkles, sour expressions and odd clothing? of course not, yet they think, due to their advanced 'wisdum,' that they should be able to say/do whatever they want whenever they want. pure wrong and pure fail.

respect is earned; they've done nothing to earn it, but have earned a sharp reprimand for not minding their own affairs and making broad based assumptions.

shaming them with the truth might wake them out of their stupor...

still, that pisses me off something fierce; go home to your house full of cats, you hags.

[Bliss]

A friend of mine nearly died because of this kind of idiocy.

She was involved in a terrible car crash (fault of her now ex-boyfriend) where her mother died, and she herself went into a coma for four or five days. Well when they arrived at the hospital, it seems a doctor determined that since she had "too many piercings" she was surely "a drug addict and has aids". They left her unatended in a hallway for that reason.

Thankfully her dad was warned of the crash and arrived not long after, and when he learned about what had been done to her he made such a huge piss out of it that they were forced to treat my friend.....

[TealJellyfish]

I'll ditto what others are saying about how age is not an excuse and you should have at least said something to them...
... oh and in the character introduction you introduced Nice Lady but you never actually had a nice lady in the story...

I am so brain dead! I just realised I missed out the end of the story! Ill edit it and fix it! Thanks Smiley!

[TealJellyfish]

A friend of mine nearly died because of this kind of idiocy.

She was involved in a terrible car crash (fault of her now ex-boyfriend) where her mother died, and she herself went into a coma for four or five days. Well when they arrived at the hospital, it seems a doctor determined that since she had "too many piercings" she was surely "a drug addict and has aids". They left her unattended in a hallway for that reason.

Thankfully her dad was warned of the crash and arrived not long after, and when he learned about what had been done to her he made such a huge piss out of it that they were forced to treat my friend.....

That's horrendous! Not the first time I have heard of something like that happening though. A friend of mine has 27 piercings (yes 27!) and got accused of having Hepatitis by a doctor and was told she wasn't allowed to volunteer at a homeless shelter because of it. I hate judgmental people! I tend to dress as differently as my office dress code allows me to and I am aware that will mean I will get negative reactions off people.. but to be judged on the fact I looked sick and tired and had medication on me was something new and disturbing.

[blas]

Stories like these are just sick.

Stress and being over worked will do a NUMBER on anyone's body. It doesn't matter who you are or what gender you are. Some of us look damn frightening after being pissed off and stressed out for 8 hours a pop 5 days straight.

But of course, those hags probably never worked a day in their life. They have no idea.

[HappyCthulhu]

Wait till you get accused of being a drug addict by a doctor that's supposed to be helping you.
My wife has some major health issues that took a long time to get diagnosed so we had to go to all kinds of different specialists.
Several of them told her, right to her face, that they wouldn't help her because all she wanted were pain meds. They didn't help addicts get drugs so go some where else.
She finally got to the right specialist that told her she had fibromyalgia and that she needed to have regular doses of pain meds to make her days normal.