The Atlanta Bathroom Incident

Jack Anderson Circa 2003:

Just when you think you’ve seen and done it all……….man-o-man……  TRUE   STORY………….
 
After returning from lunch yesterday, I made a quick pit stop in the Balcony level rest rooms of the west Tower (next to the snack bar). I zipped right in the men’s restroom bee-lining for the first urinal stall. (Too much sweet-tea at lunch).


 I’m about half way to being right with the world, and I feel someone brush against my back, and a micro second later I feel/see out of the corner of my peripheral vision, a figure of a guy standing, literally bumping up against me in the urinal stall, facing the back of my head.
 Half out of shock, half out of surprise, and half out of defensive reflex (and having lived in Atlanta my entire life), my immediate reflex was to twist/turn around sharply with a leading  left elbow to his rib cage. It really was reactive, I swear………
 
 After having reestablished the proper zone of personal space and sharp initial words from me of:
 
 “What in the $%^% ,  ^%$#%$  are doing you @#$@$@$    #$#%% ?”,
 
He attempted to regain his composure, squared himself and apologetically, with his cane wavering in attempt to regain his balance, said “Oh I’m so sorry!”
That’s when I noticed his White Cain…………………………………………………………….  
 Attempting to regain grace, I sympathetically (in my deepest voice) expressed my most sincere apologies, and promptly split the scene.  I gave him the urinal ! 
Turns out….for anyone who ever worked in the tower, it was kind old, 70 year old  Alan the blind guy who works in the snack bar…………………….
 
Yep……Just when you think you’ve done it all…………………………………………..
 
Oh no you haven’t until you reactively punched out a blind man in a dark restroom….
 
What can I say……………………..????
 
I haven’t been back to the snack bar for a while……..
 
How’s that for a new life’s experience…….Its not over til its over folks.….
 
See ya,    Jack Anderson 2003