A bit of advice
Here is a bit of advice for all of you, I just learned that yesterday:
If you are in a subway station and an old man with a twitching eye and a young woman with dirty hair start to quarrel about who gets into the train first, who pushed who and who is what and what not, don’t try to calm the situation with a “be peaceful, people, there is enough place inside the train for all of us”.
Because they will combine forces and turn on you together. And then things can get awful quite quickly. And nobody will help you out.
Don’t leave us in suspense Georg - tell us what happened!
Well, both of them exploded right away. I have been called things I haven’t been called for quite a while (”that’s none of your #### business, you ####”) and answering “obviously, both of you are complete nutters” didn’t help any. And people around just stared their usual stares. Or gave live reports on the phone to their friends.
So, nothing physically violent, but for someone who tries to live in peace and civilized behaviour with people, real awfull as well.