Bourbon Guy
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Viola said:I don't know if my reaction was proper or not.
It's my one scary subway-riding story, starring two guys I uncharitably hope have since been hit by a bus, who upon realizing we were on a no-stop express and it was just them and two girls in the car started talking/laughing about their tee-hee violent felonies and one's hobby of beating the hell out of his girlfriend.
There was one other person in the car, another woman as scared as I was, sitting across from me, and we traded looks of "oh the alarm is over there and just gonna stop the car..."
I knew I didn't have a chance in hell of fighting two guys (I think we were all unarmed but yeah I'm small and was not dreaming of being beat down in a nearly vacant subway car) so even when they'd moved right up next to me I ignored them and stared at my shoe like it had the cure for cancer written on it.
I still don't feel good about my reaction.
You did good! FEEL good about it. You walked away unscathed, and that's GOOD. Believe it. Internallize it. You handled it correctly. That you left that car unharmed is testament to that.
There were only a limited number of outcomes that could come from that encounter, and the way you played it resulted in the best outcome for YOU, and that is all that matters.
The lesson you should take away from this is to trust your instincts, because they were right and served you well. You did not make your post from a hospital bed. Neither did you post this from the perspective of having to defend your actions against a DA coming after you for killing some guy on the subway.
Totally furious for having to endure it? Damn right. Take it out in the gym. You're here and alive and well. That's a good thing. And it is more important than the rest. You were not Schindler trying to save the innocents. You were just you trying to make it out of that subway car, and you did. Good.