4th Boston Medical Gift Shop

October 11, 2011

 

This is another recording that I made at Boston Medical Center.  I said at the end that I recorded it on September 14, 2011.

 

I didn’t consciously get a Boston accent.  When I got to Boston, I thought, “It might be fun to have a Boston accent for a while, so I won’t try not to get one.”

 

It’s not that pronounced in this recording; in some later recordings, it is.

 

I have found that most people don’t want to answer the question “Why are you doing this?” or “Can you explain the reasoning for your behavior?” about harassing behavior.  Especially when shown a tape recorder, most of them are reluctant to say anything at all; without the tape recorder, they might laugh and/or confidently tell lies that deny that anything’s going on.

 

Even though the guy started rubbing his nose when he saw the tape recorder, he backed up a few feet, too; he seemed to think that rubbing his nose was a gesture that would work to intimidate me, and it didn’t, just as the Wet Floor sign didn’t keep me out of the gift shop to ask what it was doing there, on completely dry floor.

 

 

Copyright L. Kochman, October 11, 2011 @ 2:34 p.m.