Hello or Something

When I was coming back from my walk, I saw an elderly man waiting for the bus. As I was approaching him, he said "Hello," or something. I didn't pay any attention. Then he said, "Why are you so nasty? I said hello to you. You can't say hello?"
 
30 January 1980 
 

[Source: "Hello or Something" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 3, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1980.]