If she gets out of line and wants to get back in, the reason she got out of lne is most definitey my concern and my business.
How is it irrelevant? I was having major problems standing and walking. I stayed in line to avoid losing my place. She had no obviious trouble standing and walking. She made no attempt to explain why she sat down. She just sat down.
What reason? There was no obvious reason. There may have been a reason I could not see.She made no attempt to give that reason. She walked out of line, sat down, and immediately got on her phone.
It is not only that she didn’t clear it with me. She made no attempt to give a reason, ask if I would save her place in line, or that it was okay with all the people behind me in line.
Because that is the way standing in line works in this country in general. It may or not be the same way standing in line works in Haiti.I honestly don’t know. Learning English is a dificult thing indeed. If leaving the line without giving a reason, or making sure somebody will let you back in is the way it works in Haiti (again, it might be. It might not), that it does not work that way here is something she should’ve learned rather quickly.
Yeah, she sat down assuming that. That was a mistake. Again, she never attempted to give a reason for sitting down. She never attempted to ask if anybody minded or if I would let her back in.
No. I have justified it because I was justified in not letting somebody who had left the line without attempting to give a reason or attempting to be sure that she would be let back in, back in line.
This is factually incorrect. As I have said in previous posts, the women behind me spoke up that they would not let her back in line before I said or did anything.
This is just hyperbole out of nowhere.
It is in my experience.
Again, pointless hyperbole.
There is not even the slightest hint of ethical dilemma here. Yet again, she did not even attempt to give a reason why she got out of line and sat down. She did not even attempt to be sure that she would be allowed back in line. She simply got out of line and sat down.
Both of those are relevant facts. To anybody watching me walk, I had an obvious reason to sit down. I chose not to do so in order to not give up my place in line. She had no obvious reason. If she had any reason at all, she never attempted to communicate it.
She could have communicated it because she had a smartphone. She spoke next to no English. Neither I nor anybody else knew Haitian French Creole. As I said earlier, I had gone to Google Translate in order to work through the language barrier. I was typing in English to have translated when she walked away
Nah, the fact that the woman violated a basic societal custom for no apparent reason and then expected her action not to have any consequences, and that to let her back in would have been rude to everybody behind me in the line would sway him.