To get involved?

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I was on public transport this morning going to airport (I went to a major city in UK) to come home, a guy was sat and another walked past accidentally hitting the guy sat down with his bag, the guy sat down made a remark about what had happened and the guy standing apologised, sat down guy said "you will be" I processed to step in which sat down guy wasn't happy with, I just told my Mum and she said what if he had a knife on him? I just didn't think and thought I should step in by saying he didn't mean to do it.
I'm rambling sorry.

Probably best to have just let it go, I reckon.

Why did you need to butt in? Knife or no knife was there any reason standing man couldn't explain for himself? How do you know he didn't mean it? (although not very likely)

Under those circumstances, I wouldn't have. You have to be very, very careful. You interfering could have possibly escalated the situation when it would have cooled down on it's own. It can be a very tough call to make.

When you say you stepped in, what exactly did you do?

What a non event

What did you do? Twat him one?

Pretty dumb to put yourself in the firing line. What were you hoping to achieve?

I mean by mediate, the guy looked very timid and scared.
I just said to him that he didn't mean to do it, he proceed to give me dirty looks for rest of the trip

I would only have stepped in as a last resort, it doesnt sound like you needed to involve yourself

There’s was absolute no need for you to step in. You risked further escalating the situation, putting yourself and careless bag guy at risk. Your Mum was right in my opinion.

@Hollowvictory as if I would post this if it wasn't true 🙄

That's not mediating. It's commenting. Total non event why are you even giving this heads pace? Someone bumped someone else on a bus with their bag. They were rude. You commented. Er, think that's 8t

Of course it's true, nobody would make this up would they. Its a non event. Which means it's totally irrelevant and unimportant

I’d probably have done the same! I constantly get my self into trouble. It’s sad that most people walk past and do nothing nowadays!

@Hollowvictory my point is my Mum thinks i was stupid to put myself in a situation that could have turned bad

@Honeyroar exactly, the guy sat down and he got told to move because he didn't want him there, he quietly moved and I said just ignore him, i then got asked why i was getting involved and that's when I said it was an accident, he then proceeded to say he doesn't like anything touching him apart from rose petals 🤔

I swear you couldn't make this shit up

Thank you for sticking up for the underdog.
Actually hope I'd do the same.
I'm sure he was grateful.
Just trust your instincts.