I’ve read (but can’t find right now) that Alfred Hitchcock used to do this in his earlier days, talking about a serious argument he had with some woman. Just as the other people got out of the elevator, and as the door was closing, he’d say “and then the gun went off…”
I’ve sat next behind someone (else) at a McDonald’s who was like the OP. There were plenty of fucks and bitches on his side of the conversation. If there had been any children in the room, I would have told the manager, but only after I was on my way to the parking lot. He had also obviously just gotten released from the local jail and was waiting for his ride.
The last time I was in a McDonald’s, a lady was talking on her phone (I guess ordering something) and read out her entire credit card number, expiration date and security code. :eek:
How do you know any of these phone conversations are real?! These people could just be talking to an empty phone in order to start a confrontation/get attention/freak people out. I.e., this could easily be a prank:
I really want to meet the guy and find out what’s so great about him that she’s so desperate to have him back, and get some innocent person put in prison because of it!
How do you know any of these phone conversations are real?! These people could just be talking to an empty phone in order to start a confrontation/get attention/freak people out. I.e., this could easily be a prank:
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We don’t. Either it was a real stalker, or a person with a weird sense of humor. Still weird enough to share either way.
What’s so great about him, from her point of view, is easy to figure out. He has very low standards, low enough that THAT got past his radar at least once. Very few guys have their sights set quite THAT low, and when a girl like her finds one, she wants to keep him.
Also, you can bet that he’s a worse catch than she is. Which is pretty scary.
In today’s age of people trying to create viral videos I’m thinking the odds of it being a stunt are significantly higher than it being real. That isn’t particularly reassuring. Because as we become a more cynical society thinking “oh, they’re just trying to be the next Khardashian” we will start tuning out people who really need some societal approbation. I’m not saying bring back the days of public shaming adulterers in the stocks or scarlet letters, but social ostracization is a very powerful behavior modifier. If she was airing her dirty laundry in public then she is basically inviting comment, IMHO. Clearly the justice system hasn’t reformed her, maybe it takes a village of McDonald’s patrons to say “Leave that man alone and get yourself straightened out, for your sake and your kids sake” to get through to her.
What are our duties to our fellow humans? Pulling an unattended kid out of a parked car on a hot day? Stopping a parent whipping their kid in a grocery store? Telling a stranger stalking someone and planning to frame someone else for a criminal matter is wrong and they shouldn’t do it? Do we have any duties to the other members of our society?
That’s what that TV show I mentioned before is (sort of) about. They have actors perform a “scenario” and then see what the regular people do (if anything). I’ve only seen it a couple of times, it comes on in the middle of the night (insomniac). I remember one that involved a young woman doing something risky (agreeing to go off with some guy? I don’t remember the detail now). At least one woman told her she shouldn’t do it and offered to drive her wherever she wanted to go instead. Some people ‘mind their own business’ but sometimes somebody will step in.
After I was discharged from the ER yesterday (acute bronchitis) I sat outside waiting for my ride. A woman on the next bench down was playing loud music on her phone. Then she received a call and put it on speaker. After some confusion as to who was calling (it was her mother) she said, “Mom I’m in a bad place. I need to go back into rehab. I want to kill people.”
I saw one of those. A group of people, dressed like those FLDS people, were in a booth at a restaurant. The “parents” were telling their youn teenage “daughter” that she had to marry an older man who already had several “wives”. The daughter was reluctant, and the audible voices of the parents were telling her it was “God’s will” Also It’s the Prophet’s will" Several other diners who overheard this spoke up and remonstrated with the parents, or offered the girl sanctuary away from her “family”
