Bumping into people.

This REALLY grinds my gears. Yesterday, for example, I walked down harcourt street, at about 6pm, to be nearly mowed in two, on several occasions.

There was an unreal que of what looked to be forgien students the entire way down the street, and everybody seemed to be walking in the opposite direction to me. The men in suits, the females in their work clothes funnily enough could avoid bumping directly into me, as we both made the effort, but the further I kept walking the more (spanish??) students I seemed to encounter, walking in groups as opposed to filing down whilst passing the que that was taking up half the footpath already. These made NO ATTEMPT to avoid bumping into me, or even waiting for me to step out of their way. And its not as if I could avoid bumping into them without bumping into their dumb friend next to them instead. I stepped out onto the street a couple of times, before I thought "fock this" and done what they were doing. Kept walking. I walked on anyway, fire in my eyes, and this (what do you know, spanish?) student girl kept walking, in the group, with her head down, on her mobile. I didnt move out of her way, she didnt move outta mine, so i walked straight into her. She dropped her phone and had to risk phone and fingers, picking it up off the extremely busy street.

I got to Grafton Street and by then I thought I was actually going to grab one of them and pull their liver out through their nose, walking in their groups, and randomly stopping - in the middle of street - and me almost tripping over them and falling.

I don't seem to have this happen to me with most normal people (some old people excluded but if you cant be a menace to society when youre old, when can you?) its just with these influx of fu*king students.

Storminateacup wrote: »

I thought "fock this" and done what they were doing. Kept walking. I walked on anyway, fire in my eyes, and this (what do you know, spanish?) student girl kept walking, in the group, with her head down, on her mobile. I didnt move out of her way, she didnt move outta mine, so i walked straight into her. She dropped her phone and had to risk phone and fingers, picking it up off the extremely busy street..

............so you hit a girl rather than walk on the street?
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baltimore sun wrote: »

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

I know they dont, thats why I live here now.. :pac:

black francis wrote: »

Worked with loads of Polish people over the years.

Not wanting to generalise - but I would have said Polish people were really polite.

You've never had to use public transport in Poland I think.. all those grannies running (suddenly they can run) over you to get the sit, grumpy cashiers, etc- but yes "in general" we are very polite..

I'm a big fecker, and if I bump into someone they usually stay bumped, so I get to say sorry a lot. My classic "bump" is when I finish paying at a till and turn around to leave-most people(well a lot) are under my line of sight, so I've literally walked through a fair few as I turn to leave. I've also spilled coffee down several people who were hidden in my blind spot as I turned to leave. This tends to be embarrasing, but it's not deliberate. I'm just not very manouverable. Kids especially are just waay to easy to "run over" by accident.

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