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Re: Andy's "I was harassed by an Avengers fanboy" story

[(Anonymous)]

Lol...years ago, I went to a showing of Con Air on opening night--geez, how long ago was THAT?--and a gf & I were "harassed," pretty good-naturedly, by a couple of clean-cut but slightly tipsy college boys about whether we though Cusack or Cage was hotter (this theatre served both food & alcohol, so this scenario wasn't terribly uncommon.) I told them, quite honestly, that Steve Buscemi was more my type, then repeated the line about "wearing her head as a hat".... The college boys sort of drifted away. The two of us laughed all night & it's still a running joke, going on 20 years later...

Now, obviously you out there reading don't know me or my gf, so you don't actually know if it's true. But isn't it a good deal more plausible than being so aggressively harassed in a train station by a this disgusting FAAAT drunk jerk who talks about the Avengers, wants to put Linux on your 'puter, etc. BTW, the above story *is* true.

(This is OT, but I've traveled on lots of Amtrak trains & spent several years commuting daily on DC metro stations. I've got no idea what station he is referring to, but unless it was one of the smaller, "unmanned" stations, I must say employees usually keep a close watch on that stuff, esp, if they think someone is under the influence. Not that I think this story is anything but fiction, but...Rather than focus selfishly on experiencing "sexual harassment," wouldn't it have been better to notify an employee or call the police on this "drunk & disorderly," esp. since the guy was likely to do worse to the next "woman?" Really doesn't fit w. his heroic "Claymore scar" story...lol.)