“You big fat pig” is all Marsha Coupe heard before she was kicked in the face. The 53-year-old businesswoman says she was sitting in an almost empty train carriage in the early evening when she was kicked, punched and shouted at for taking up two seats. Her attacker was pulled off by another passenger and restrained, but got off at the next stop before the police arrived.

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

C.S. Lewis (via kari-shma)