“I will murder you like your mom should have months before you were born”
She paused not because she was offended by this insult or threat or whatever this man was failing at doing. She paused because her first thought was to debate the man about whether or not abortion was murder. This would have just made his face redder something she’d prefer to do with her hands.
English wasn’t his first language and this wasn’t him. His anger was built slowly over the years in his store, it stayed there at night to greet him in the morning bigger and well rested. Some days he liked the anger more than the people. These kids who rarely went to high school but never left it either. More like children than adults. This girl was not one of them, it shamed him to have yelled at her like this. He wanted to take it back. It almost felt like he could. She hadn’t reacted yet.
He tried to apologize but she reacted too soon.
“Fuck you”
She walked away thinking he was one of those people he hated.