A guy about my age pulled up in a car and yelled, “Hey, faggot!”
I was carrying something at the time, so I couldn’t flip him off, and I didn’t want to respond verbally and engage. So I kept walking and turned onto a one-way street where he couldn’t follow. I felt frustrated and angry; there wasn’t a way for me to respond, and I couldn’t really talk to my friends about it. What do you say? “Some guy yelled at me from a car.”
There’s not a follow-up or a “poor you” that you’d get or anything; it feels like a “so?” kind of thing to say.
– GK
Location: Outskirts of Chicago, IL, while walking to a friend’s house.
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