On her way to Chicago, Olivia. A Cole witnessed an amazing thing. A woman was getting harassed, as women often do, by a man on a train, who figured he could just say anything he liked to her.
Here’s what happened next…
So I was on the train to work this morning. Now, most women know that street harassers never think it’s too early to street harass.
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015
So that was happening. This dude was aggressively hitting on this woman, who was about my age. She was ignoring him. Everyone else was too.
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015
He kept after her. I could hear him saying, “Come on. I want your number. You’re so pretty. You don’t want my number?”
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015
She finally says, loudly, “NO, I don’t want your number!” And what happened next was amazing.
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015
This young woman a few seats away, looks up and she says, also loudly, “AND NO, I DON’T WANNA GIVE YOU MINE.”
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015
And there was this awkward silence. Like, at first people just stared at her, myself include. But then I realized, and slowly so did others.
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015
The second woman’s friend started laughing and she said (not as loud, but still audible) “NO, I DON’T WANNA MEET YOU NO WHERE.”
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015
And together they sang, really loudly (and off key) “NO, I DON’T WANT NONE OF YOUR TIIIIIME”
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015
The dude trying to get the first woman’s number just stared at them, and the woman he was harassing was just LAUGHING. He was done.
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015
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