At that point the conductor should have told the guy to shut up and leave you alone or he'd have him put off the train. There should be zero tolerance of that kind of behavior. Women traveling alone face all kinds of issues that men do not, and this is a perfect example.
I couldn't agree more.
Be careful and be aware.
I agree. Use a little caution here. Perhaps see if you can get the conductor to give you a head start off the train when it arrives (i.e. move you to the very front of the train). If you need to wait for checked baggage, I'd step back somewhere out of sight and see if the creep shows up there. Then I'd pick up my bags.
Yay!
People in general are ignorant and have no respect for the feelings of others. The situation you were put into was not in the least bit humorous. People just need to mind their own business and quit bullying others (especially when they have no clue what the hell is going on anyway).
I don't follow. Who did he ask the conductor to marry? How did the conductor react? Did he not do anything?
Pay attention, SH.
I know the OP was been harassed, what I did not know was what the "creep" said to the conducter and what the conductor did in return.
We'll take this slowly. A captain of a ship can marry people when at sea, so perhaps this guy thought a conductor could marry people on a train. In any event the conductor should have told the creep to mind his own business, move him to another car or toss him off the train.
If so, then that guy is really mentally disabled or he's joking. This is unacceptable!
This generally isn't true. To get married in the U.S., you need a marriage license, and each state lists who can perform marriages. I've yet to find a state that lists "ship captain" as an official celebrant. Strangely enough, in Minnesota the residential school administrators of the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf and the Minnesota State Academy for the Blind are allowed to perform marriages, but not a ship captain.
I also thhink he should have been removed from the train, but maybe the conductor thought he was joking. That's all I can think of because I do not know what the conductor did.
Somewhat off topic, but Captains of certain ships can and do perform wedding ceremonies at sea, where the country of the ship's registry determine the laws in effect....
...where I'm sure a marriage license is available for sale in the Gift Shop.
It's generally a very difficult line to discern the point beyond which someone needs to be restrained/disciplines vs simply be ignored. Obviously not being on board, I can't say where this line was, but it is very easy for all involved to perhaps even allow thing to get slightly out of hand before putting down the gauntlet. The problem comes when you OVER-react to someone who has a mental disability or really hasn't crossed a line yet.
