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Take My Advice: How Do I Deal With an MBTA Bus Bully?
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I ride the same bus to work every day, and I often see the same people during my commute. One woman in particular is an incredible bully. She’ll elbow her way through everyone to get on earlier (and snag a seat), she’ll leave her bags on an empty seat next to her even during rush hour, so if anyone wants to sit there they have to ask (and then she gives them an evil eye and a lot of sighs, though she will move the bags)–basically, she’s just extremely rude. The other day, the bus got stuck for about 15 minutes because of road construction and she started screaming–top of your lungs screaming–at the bus driver about how this bus route was always terrible and she needed to be at work etc. She even said that she didn’t know why no one else was speaking up, since we “all felt this way.” I’m starting to actually hate this awful woman. Is there anything I can say or do to make her stop? More