The Toronto Transit System can be a setting for some unusual, interesting and shocking events sometime. I was sitting at the front of the bus today and see this old, blind man sitting in one of the courtesy seats (he was wearing dark sunglasses and had a white cane with him). This young girl, probably around 17, walks on to the bus and sits down next to him, her friend sitting opposite the aisle.

Now I wouldn’t think anything of it, but after a while the older, blind man starts leaning in close to the girl. I couldn’t hear what he was saying, but the girl obviously seemed like she was doing her best to be polite, yet abrupt. Then he puts his hand on her shoulder, as if it steady himself to get up for his stop… yet, he just sits there for a while trying to talk to her while patting her shoulder. The girl appeared to try to wriggle out of the unwanted attention, but all the seats were full and she was right behind the driver’s section.

About a minute later, he finally does get up, steadily holding onto her shoulder, and I witness the most disgusting displays that I’ve ever seen on TTC–he fully attempted to cop a feel of her breast! The bus pole was on the other side of him for crying out loud, so he could’ve used that to steady himself! Thank goodness she finally brushed his hand away and moved to the side before he got any lower. The “blind” man got off the bus pretty quickly, and didn’t really use the cane much, so I’m assuming he had at least some vision (according to the CNIB 90% of the people they assist actually have some vision).

I’m sitting there looking at the girl, who had this shocked and disgusted look on her face as she starts talking to her friend across the aisle in her language. She then glances at the woman sitting next to her friend as if to say “did you see what he did to me?”, and starts shaking her head saying, “so disgusting…” She soon got off the bus a couple of stops later.

Now I don’t know about you, but I think most blind people know where a woman’s breasts are on their body, in relation to their shoulder. I don’t care if he was old, or 99% blind, touching another person in that way without their consent is just plain wrong. What’s more wrong is taking advantage of your disabilities in a way like that. I hope a seagull flew into his balls on the way home…

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