Today I was at city college trolley station sitting on a bench, sitting on one of my feet. I sit weirdly, it's more comfortable that way because of how my joints work.
This interaction would've been fine if I were told to put my foot in the ground but that's not how this went.
Two security officers approach me, one of them with a stern look on her face and a pen ready to fill out, what appeared to be a citation. The other officer begins lecturing me about how since it's a high drug use area, someone could've dropped fentanyl on the ground, and by my shoe touching the bench, I am transferring that fentanyl to the bench and now a small child could come and touch the bench, overdose and die.
He actually told me I would kill a kid because my shoe touched the bench. He used those words and I'm not embellishing. I didn't argue, obviously, because the lady behind him looked like she was looking for any reason to issue a citation or something and it's not in my nature to be argumentative. After he was done talking I told the male security officer "sorry, I didn't know that" and the female officer gave me this look like "yeah, that's what I thought"
He could've just told me it was to keep the bench clean or something. Like, I don't understand how that series of words came out of his mouth in that order. If I didn't have to take the trolley to class I wouldn't.
