Yes, kid was rude or inattentive. You get what you get, which is how you learn to pay attention and not be rude.

My MS results in neuropathic pain in my feet. A feather going across them feels like I'm being cut by a knife. Stepping on them will result in my voice being less than pleasing while I process the pain. I understand if you think I'm overreacting.

If they are intimated by the crowd, why are they not by your side with you?

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Anonymous wrote:If during rush hour on metro escalators, an elementary age kid accidentally puts foot over someone else's foot, is it normal for the other person to rudely scold them or is it discrimination because kid is a minority immigrant?

So the kid tried to trip an adult? That could land them with a slap across the face.

Kids have to be taught to maintain their own personal space and respect others personal space.

Seriously. How do you accidentally put your foot on/over someone else's foot on an escalator? That's deliberate, and stupid. Someone needs to discipline their stupid kid so they don't get hurt and/or hurt others.

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Anonymous wrote:Your kid steps on my foot? I’m going to react! I don’t care if it’s blue Cookie Monster. For all you know the person has nerve pain, a bruise, a broken toe. And with no injury it’s still rude AF to step on a foot.

This. You may have rebroken a healing broken bone.

If you’re so fragile a child accidentally stepping on your foot could break you, you don’t belong on public transportation.

If you're so thoughtless your kids are stepping on strangers, neither you nor your children should be in public.

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Anonymous wrote:Scolding is nbd. Doesn’t sound like screaming.

Screaming loud enough to scare the kid who was already intimidated by due to crowd rushing fast.

Why is your elementary-age kid in the way during rush hour? And you're not watching their feet? This is a parenting fail; I'd chastise YOU before I talked to your kid.

Anonymous wrote:If during rush hour on metro escalators, an elementary age kid accidentally puts foot over someone else's foot, is it normal for the other person to rudely scold them or is it discrimination because kid is a minority immigrant?

So the kid tried to trip an adult? That could land them with a slap across the face.

Kids have to be taught to maintain their own personal space and respect others personal space.

It sounds like an overreaction by the adult. Sure someone stepping on you hurts and might scare you, but if your first reaction is to scream, esp. at a kid, that is inappropriate. I might say "ow" in the moment, but then you see the kid and you dial it down. Totally over the top.

Anonymous wrote:Give some space and grace. Kids are klutzy.

If kid is klutzy, they should be standing still on the escalator not walking. If they can’t walk without stepping on another patron, they are creating an unsafe situation and absolutely should be called on it. And parent should be doing better.

Anonymous wrote:If during rush hour on metro escalators, an elementary age kid accidentally puts foot over someone else's foot, is it normal for the other person to rudely scold them or is it discrimination because kid is a minority immigrant?

or maybe the person was in pain and had a knee jerk reaction?

If that person has ingrown nail, it’s very painful and I can understand the reaction. For something like this, I expect the reaction happens before the person fully assesses who is it standing on their foot. For this specific scenario, I wouldn’t assume the reaction is due to skin color.

Anonymous wrote:If during rush hour on metro escalators, an elementary age kid accidentally puts foot over someone else's foot, is it normal for the other person to rudely scold them or is it discrimination because kid is a minority immigrant?

Sounds like bad parenting on your part, OP.

I don’t think it was discrimination, he probably would’ve reacted that way regardless. It is normal for this area. One time I was standing in line at a fast casual type restaurant and an older woman was standing behind me. Something fell out of my bag and I didn’t realize she had been inching closer and closer to me in line so when I turned to the side and reached down I accidentally stepped on her foot. I had barely stepped on it and immediately apologized but she started yelling , “You stepped on my foot!” over and over, and wouldn’t listen to any apologies. Even after I got out of line and got our food , she still came over and repeated it again when I was helping my kids get their drinks.

Anonymous wrote:You’re not really riding public transit in DC if you don’t get yelled at by random people, the homeless, or a bus driver/station attendant. It comes with the territory. No one promised you a spa treatment.

lol. This.

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Welcome to DC in the summer. We don’t give a flying Ford Festiva where you’re from or what you look like, as long as you stand right-walk left.

+ a million, if your kid can’t handle the metro, keep them off of it.

You’re not really riding public transit in DC if you don’t get yelled at by random people, the homeless, or a bus driver/station attendant. It comes with the territory. No one promised you a spa treatment.