Bumping into people.

Frank Black · 24-08-2011 12:40PM #1

You know when you’re out in say a supermarket or somewhere and you bump into someone by mistake – usually it’s 6 of one and half a dozen of the other as to who’s at fault. Both people mumble an apology and move on.

Well, there’s been a couple of occasions recently where this has happened where I’ve said ‘oh, sorry’ and the other person has just looked at me and not said anything – like they’re accepting my apology and they weren’t in the wrong at all.

What’s the correct social response to this – other than blasting them in the face with piss?

orourkeda · 24-08-2011 12:41PM

a kick in the bollix\gash

blaze1 · 24-08-2011 12:41PM

Blast them with piiiiiiiiiizas you picked up in the frozen section

KTRIC · 24-08-2011 12:42PM

black francis wrote: »

Well, there’s been a couple of occasions recently where this has happened where I’ve said ‘oh, sorry’ and the other person has just looked at me and not said anything – like they’re accepting my apology and they weren’t in the wrong at all.

What’s the correct social response to this – other than blasting them in the face with piss?

Well I'd be the same, someone bumps into me and I'm certainly not going to apologise.

If it does annoy you so much then I'd have to say the auld piss blast is in order. Sometimes its the only solution.

fedor.2. · 24-08-2011 12:48PM

black francis wrote: »

You know when you’re out in say a supermarket or somewhere and you bump into someone by mistake – usually it’s 6 of one and half a dozen of the other as to who’s at fault. Both people mumble an apology and move on.

Well, there’s been a couple of occasions recently where this has happened where I’ve said ‘oh, sorry’ and the other person has just looked at me and not said anything– like they’re accepting my apology and they weren’t in the wrong at all.

What’s the correct social response to this – other than blasting them in the face with piss?

Its cause your black, silly

FatherLen · 24-08-2011 12:50PM

both mumble a quick apology and thats that.
unless your a scumbag then the person who bumped into you is clearly looking for a fight and WAS infact looking at your "burd".

stovelid · 24-08-2011 12:52PM

Do a few laps of the supermarket and head back to them and engineer another bump so you can get an apology back.

plastic glass · 24-08-2011 01:21PM

I am actually really bad at walking in the same line as people coming towards me. And then when the other person alters their course to avoid me I always seem to alter my course at the same time but to the same way they do. So to all those people, I am not trying to mug you honest I am just not the most agile walker

_feedback_ · 24-08-2011 01:28PM

Only last weekend I thought to myself, I must stop saying sorry when eejits walk in to me.

I always used to say sorry, but it's never really my fault, as I watch where I'm going.

Redlion · 24-08-2011 01:28PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M9XdlOkSlY

Zebra3 · 24-08-2011 01:34PM

black francis wrote: »

What’s the correct social response to this – other than blasting them in the face with piss?

Putting small but expensive products into their trolley.

Knex* · 24-08-2011 01:38PM

You worry too much man, walk on, enjoy your day and fúck em if they want to be an ass about it even when you apologise.

prinz · 24-08-2011 01:40PM

elviscostello wrote: »

Only last weekend I thought to myself, I must stop saying sorry when eejits walk in to me. I always used to say sorry, but it's never really my fault, as I watch where I'm going.

Same here. It's an odd quirk we have going on that foreign people often pick up on.

'What do you mean? People bump into you, and you apologise to them?'

Seems odd but it generally works :pac:

stupidusername · 24-08-2011 01:42PM

no i never apologise unless it's my fault, which it rarely is, or maybe if it's an old person. amazing how many people walk around not looking where they're going, or stop suddenly in the street.

blackbird98 · 24-08-2011 01:46PM

cross-eyed guy bumped into me one day and said to me "why don't you look where you're fu**ing going?"

I said "Why don't you go where you're fu**ing looking?" and walked on

LeeHoffmann · 24-08-2011 01:50PM

I think this belongs in the 'first world problems' thread

maudgonner · 24-08-2011 02:02PM

If I'm walking along a path and I see someone coming towards me I will always try to make room and edge around them. If they can see me coming and make absolutely no effort to get out of my way though, I get annoyed, and (assuming they're not old/infirm/a child/disabled/built like a brick sh*thouse etc) I'll give them a good hard shoulder as they go past me, just to teach them some manners. (99% of the time it's a gang of girls who are gossiping so hard and trying to look cool that they can't be bothered acknowledging that anyone else exists.

I'm sooooo hard!!!!

(But with normal decent human beings, I will always say sorry, whether they bump into me, or I bump into them)

Alter-Ego · 24-08-2011 02:06PM

I always think that when I mumble "Sorry" it sounds like "It's Alright". I'm just waiting for a psycho to start screaming "It's not fcuking alright" before throwing cans of tuna at me.

dirtypanties · 24-08-2011 02:07PM

plastic glass wrote: »

I am actually really bad at walking in the same line as people coming towards me. And then when the other person alters their course to avoid me I always seem to alter my course at the same time but to the same way they do. So to all those people, I am not trying to mug you honest I am just not the most agile walker

Same.

Scanlas The 2nd · 24-08-2011 02:16PM

stupidusername wrote: »

no i never apologise unless it's my fault, which it rarely is, or maybe if it's an old person. amazing how many people walk around not looking where they're going, or stop suddenly in the street.

But is there really anything wrong with stopping suddenly in the street, surely it's the pedestrian's responsiblility who is behind you to keep a
safe distance.

smash · 24-08-2011 02:19PM

I've noticed a lot of women with spacial awareness issues recently... like they can't walk in a straight line down a footpath and always manage to almost walk into me. I'd blame the lynx effect but I haven't worn that crap since I was 15.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 24-08-2011 04:01PM

Regardless of the circumstances I always apologise.

Its not like someone is going to sue your ass off or look for damages for a fender bender.

Common decency, no hard feelings and all that.

baltimore sun · 24-08-2011 04:18PM

black francis wrote: »

I’ve said ‘oh, sorry’ and the other person has just looked at me and not said anything

They prob weren't Irish, most Europeans wouldn't bother saying sorry when ya bump into them, proper order too, all that fake BS of saying sorry for something that doesn't really matter

softmee · 24-08-2011 04:30PM

More annoyig is when you are walkig somewhere and there is another person walking towards you and there is this moment when no of you know if should pass on left or right and you are both swinging both ways for few seconds...
Its sometimes akward, but I always smile when it happenes, but some people give you that angry look, like its your fault (but they did the same) ... :pac:

softmee · 24-08-2011 04:32PM

baltimore sun wrote: »

They prob weren't Irish, most Europeans wouldn't bother saying sorry when ya bump into them, proper order too, all that fake BS of saying sorry for something that doesn't really matter

I am Polish and I always say sorry.. :rolleyes:

arybvtcw0eolkf · 24-08-2011 04:36PM

softmee wrote: »

I am Polish and I always say sorry.. :rolleyes:

But there is only 38 million Poles so you don't count

Karona · 24-08-2011 04:38PM

I always say sorry, its such a bad habit, I never bump into them. But the look they give you is unreal, you just bumped into me bitch, now down on your knees and beg for forgivement look.

Korvanica · 24-08-2011 04:40PM

plastic glass wrote: »

I am actually really bad at walking in the same line as people coming towards me. And then when the other person alters their course to avoid me I always seem to alter my course at the same time but to the same way they do. So to all those people, I am not trying to mug you honest I am just not the most agile walker

That always happens me too, but whenever it does I always say "Thanks for the Dance..."

The Cool · 24-08-2011 04:44PM

It is really just our society that that happens in - I lived in Spain for a while and noticed that even if you get a right whack from somebody passing you on the street, it's completely ignored. Took me a while after moving back to Ireland to get used to people apologising for it, I'd be a few steps on thinking nothing of it when I'd hear the other person call back an apology they must have thought me awful rude.

baltimore sun · 24-08-2011 04:44PM

softmee wrote: »

I am Polish and I always say sorry.. :rolleyes:

I live in Poland (tyskie i peirogi ruskie jest najlepszy

) and nobody says sorry here when they bump into you in shops or when they're pushin onto the bus as you're gettin off

Doesn't bother me tho, i got used to it fairly quickly

stevenmu · 24-08-2011 05:19PM

There's a great thread over on boards.pl about Irish idiots who just stand in the way and keep mumbling "sorry" when you try to get past them.

Bumping into people.

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