Unpolite co-Hero of the Day

As usual, I took a bus this morning to come to work at Paulista Avenue. This journey has become a lot more pleasurable since I got my new ipod and uploaded 7 gigabytes of my favorite music in it. Now the daily traffic jam is "mostly" other people's problem.

I got down in the "Paulista" and was walking the two blocks from the bus stop to my job. I forgot what I was listening, but it was something good (of course) and a joyfull sensation accompanied me while waiting to cross the Brigadeiro Faria Lima Street. So the pedestrian light went green but the people were still waiting to cross the street, because a late bus had passed the red light on the other side of Paulista Avenue and would had to pass by us first, otherwise it would stop the traffic. I mean, everybody but an old lady, who was on her second step crossing the "Brigadeiro". It was when a guy on her left side and me on her right side simultaneously pushed her back to the sidewalk. Few seconds later, the bus passed in high speed.

She said, smiling, that the light was green to her but that it was beteer to be a bit late than to change her day being taking by a bus and so she thanked us. The other guy made a comment that another day he saw a bus hitting a blind man who were crossing the street following the noise the pedestrian sign does when it is free for pedestrian. I replyed saying some cliché about how dangerous the traffic is here and asking if the old lady (who were wearing a very colorful and nice t-shirt, btw) was alright. She, always smiling, said she was perfectly fine and thanked again, but kind of moved her head away from me. It was then that the guy put his finger in his ear, giving me a sign to take my earphones off, so i didn't need to scream at people. I took them off just to say goodbye and we all went ahead with our lives, me with the earphones back again.