I was on my way walking to work, when two men working on the roof of a building started hooting and hollering at me. I stopped in my tracks and yelled back, “I hope you fall off that building and are crippled for life because you’re already crippled in the head.” That shut them up completely.
– Anonymous
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
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