She tried to ignore bullies; you didn't

She tried to ignore bullies; you didn't: The verbal abuse suffered by 68-year-old bus monitor Karen Klein became a prism through which total strangers, the world round, characterized her experience as symbolic of everything wrong with modern-day parenting, children and more. Beyond anger, some expressed sadness for the seemingly defenseless older woman who, they felt, bravely suffered the slings and arrows flung at her for no good reason at all.