trying to pick a fight

yesterday, my family and i went out to our usual saturday family lunch. i dont remember if i ever mentioned this or not, but when my family goes out to lunch together, my parents sit on one side of the restaurant and the rest of us sit on the other side. it's better for all of us this way, but the restaurant people always think we're weird. "you don't want to all sit together? we have a table that can fit you all," they always insist. we always say no.

anyways, yesterday we were at the place and my sister was standing and this lady bumped into her/pushed her. as she was sitting down, my sister said "i hate her!" but in arabic. my sister is kinda loud, so the lady heard her, but she wasnt like screaming it or anything. the lady glares daggers at her and as she is passing our table on the way back to hers she says "skanky bitch." we were shocked. first of all, what the hell? and second, my brothers were with us and i don't appreciate random people exposing them to that kind of language. i like to keep it as G as possible when they're around.

my sister says in disbelief, "seriously?" i mean, this was not a young kid. she was in her thirties at least. her oldest kid was a teenager. the lady replies with a "that's what i was thinking. seriously?" full of attitude. she goes on to say to the people at the table, "i walk past her and she screams like someone was killing her," and other mumblings that showed that she wasnt upset that my sister had something in arabic (which i would kinda understand) but that she "screamed." it really wasnt that loud, and i mean, grow up lady.

anisah is all for confronting people and standing up for herself and all that. but we go to that place a lot. the lady was obviously not worth a scene but completely ready to make one. we were about to leave anyway. so my cousin and i stopped my sister from saying anything else and we left.

it took a while for my sister to get over the fact that we stopped her from starting a fight, and the fact that some random lady said that took a while to.

this story would've been better if i told it yesterday instead of waiting.

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