Friday 15 November, 2024

Morning commuters shut down guy asking for girl's number with mass TLC singalong

No, I don’t want your number.

WE ALL KNOW and love the song No Scrubs by TLC.

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It’s a bona fide classic.

Sixteen years on, it’s getting girls out of sticky situations.

Chicago-based author Olivia Cole was travelling on the train to work yesterday morning when she overheard a man hassling a woman for her number.

So I was on the train to work this morning. Now, most women know that street harassers never think it's too early to street harass.
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015

Olivia A. Cole / Twitter

So that was happening. This dude was aggressively hitting on this woman, who was about my age. She was ignoring him. Everyone else was too.
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015

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He persisted, despite the fact that she wasn’t interested.

He kept after her. I could hear him saying, "Come on. I want your number. You're so pretty. You don't want my number?"
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015

Olivia A. Cole / Twitter

Until she finally shut him down.

She finally says, loudly, "NO, I don't want your number!" And what happened next was amazing.
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015

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And then something that sounds like it was taken straight from an episode of Glee happened.

This young woman a few seats away, looks up and she says, also loudly, "AND NO, I DON'T WANNA GIVE YOU MINE."
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015

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At first, people didn’t get it…

And there was this awkward silence. Like, at first people just stared at her, myself include. But then I realized, and slowly so did others.
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015

Olivia A. Cole / Twitter

And then it hit them.

The second woman's friend started laughing and she said (not as loud, but still audible) "NO, I DON'T WANNA MEET YOU NO WHERE."
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015

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AND THERE WAS A SINGALONG.

And together they sang, really loudly (and off key) "NO, I DON'T WANT NONE OF YOUR TIIIIIME"
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015

Olivia A. Cole / Twitter

The guy was unceremoniously put back in his place.

The dude trying to get the first woman's number just stared at them, and the woman he was harassing was just LAUGHING. He was done.
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015

Olivia A. Cole / Twitter

And we learned a valuable place.

So for everyone who says they don't know what to do when someone is being street harassed, you're out of excuses. Just sing TLC "No Scrubs."
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 6, 2015

Olivia A. Cole / Twitter

And now to listen to No Scrubs.

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