For me it was back in my University days. Studying in the library a couple of Chinese guys a few desks behind me started talking really loudly, and angrily. Looking around I saw people were annoyed but, as Canadians, decided to take it in stride and just complain amongst themselves/Facebook, instead. It was a regular thing in the library for the Chinese foreign students to just use desks as social hangouts, rather than quietly study (this isn't discrimination, just an observation).
Deciding I should do something, for the greater good (because I have a half-assed hero complex and wanted to impress the girl I was studying with), I huffed up my chest and went over to tell them both to shut the fuck up, people were there to study and that they could talk anywhere else on campus and nobody would give a shit. Just not in the library.
Then I saw one of the guy's actually had tears in his eyes while the other told me he just got an email from home saying his mother was really sick and they didn't realize how loud they were talking. They both apologized profusely and left with their heads hung low.
Watching them leave, I just thought, "Shit, I'M the douchebag here."
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