Good Samaritan gets grief for helping
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This article was published 06/12/2015 (3953 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I am pregnant and sick. I threw up right on the bus on the way to work the other day and the old lady across the aisle bent over and sopped it up with a bunch of Kleenex. When the bus door opened, she threw it out. Then this old biddy sitting behind her started giving her a terrible time for littering. What was she supposed to do — hold onto the Kleenexes and have them stink up the rest of the bus?
I was feeling too ill to get into the fight, so I stumbled off at the next stop and left the two of them going at it. I am feeling better now and feel guilty about leaving my Good Samaritan on her own when she was being (verbally) beaten up. I am at work and wondering what Miss Lonelyhearts would have done in the same predicament.
— Pregnant and Green-Faced, Winnipeg
Dear Pregnant: It’s probably a good thing it was you throwing up on that bus, and not yours truly. You very wisely got off the bus as you were in no shape for a fight and might have upchucked again. The Irish blood in this Maureen would have told off “the old biddy” and loudly thanked the woman who swabbed the deck, mentioning that if she had not thrown the tissues off the bus, everybody would have felt sick.
Yes, even though it was littering, some things take precedence, and saving a busload of people from that smell was heroic.
Please send your questions and comments to lovecoach@hotmail.com or Miss Lonelyhearts c/o the Winnipeg Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R2X 3B6
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