While visiting some relatives, we decided to visit a mall for some urgent shopping.
When we reached our destination, kiddo wanted to use the washroom. Hubby accompanied him to the restroom while I ventured ahead towards the food court. As I stood gazing at nothing in particular, I heard someone scream loudly.
I turned towards the noise and saw a lady heap filthy abuses on a poor young lad. For a moment nothing made sense. The lady kept yelling at him, gesticulating wildly while the poor boy kept wilting at the verbal onslaught. I couldn’t understand the matter due to a language barrier.
She ranted a bit more, turned around and immediately collided with a trash bin. The trays atop the bin upturned and the lady’s legs and skirt faced a barrage of tissues and other leftovers. The onlookers started laughing while she struggled to brush off legs. She threw a dirty look around, muttered some more and stormed off.
I couldn’t contain myself and asked a staff about the matter. He told me that the lady was lambasting the guy for walking close to her while entering the seating area. When I asked if she was being harrassed by the boy, I was told that it was nothing of that sort.
The guy was clad in very simple clothes and was accompanied by an old woman, presumably his mother. The lady who was screaming felt that the poor looking duo did not belong there and they should maintain a proper distance as they “smelled” and she found them filthy.
The mother and son seemed to come from a modest background but that did not mean that they were filthy! The poor chap had brought his mum for lunch and was degraded just because an elitist dame thought they didn’t belong!
No one should be disrespected in such a manner. Just because life has placed us on different rungs in the social set-up doesn’t give anyone the right to degrade others. And that too without cause!
The lady forgot this basic principle of life. “What goes around, comes around.” Karma decided to intervene and her own dirty attire and legs were the perfect example of payback!