To feel quite upset - just got told by a stranger to get out of his fucking way

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Was walking badk from the shops this morning and swerved to avoid a puddle on one side and another walker approaching me on th other side.

Whilst doing this, I was pretty much neck and neck with a guy who told me off for walking in front of him. I apologised and said I hadn’t meant to but wanted to avoid the puddle and the other guy. He then said, ‘avoid me!’ and then ‘get out of my fucking way’.

i know this is a tiny thing in the grand scheme of things but it upset me. I’ve never ever had this. It was like road rage, but between walkers.

I understand I shouldn’t have been in his way and walked in front of him and changed direction, but I explained why I did it and I didn’t deserve for him to speak to me so rudely. I said to him that he’d been very rude and he just strode off without saying anything.

Obviously he thinks he’s completely in the right, and maybe he’s also having a bad day, but it gives him no right at all to speak to me like that.

I don't like being sworn at by anyone of any gender

There sure is a lot of angry people about- this thread is so angry it’s bizarre

Your brain interprets it as violence

Ah, that explains why I'd probably be rolling about in the puddle fighting with the cheeky prick!

There's a few posters on here I wouldn't want to bump into irl!

then get out of the way, it's not that hard

He was rude and aggressive. But you should take more care when avoiding puddles. Somebody could have been injured because of your thoughtless for others.

Men feel entitled to spaces, over and above women.

I’ve got really good at telling these men to fuck off immediately.

Anyone who is willing to talk to a stranger like that is really not worth worrying about. And there's no way that someone would be that angry about someone stepping in front of them without something else on their mind, so try not to let it get to you and but it down to him having a bad day.

And we can also spit in your dinner or drink so be rude to us at your peril 😜

What a shit load of bollocks.

You might have no choice if you walk within 10m of OP.

There’s a lot of wankers out there unfortunately. I was driving home from work the other day and held back a fraction of a second because I didn’t want to be side by side with a double decker bus at the entrance on to a roundabout just off the bypass. It was literally a second or 2. Because I did this it warranted the man in the flashy Range Rover behind me giving me the finger. It’s total arrogance. They think they are better than you but they are just arseholes.

you don't seem to know very much about it. Swear words are stored in a different area of the brain to normal language, for example, so it is possible to lose the ability to use one, but not the other. I have cared for several people who have sustained brain damage who have lost the ability to speak all other words except swear words.

There is an argument that these were probably the very first spoken language humans had, although they may have been in the form of clicks. And all other language developed from this.

I had this happen to me years ago in Oxford Street! Man coming towards me brushed past me and told me to f* off. Totally unwarranted. I was quite upset. He was wearing a Russell & Bromley badge!

mrsdineen2 · Today 10:21
your bitchy comments are getting a bit boring now. Jog on.

Swearing isn't always aggressive, violent and harmful.

It has positive effects on a lot of people. Ever wondered why so many comedians are rude and swear?

Obviously not in op's situation.

You basically cut someone up. It’s annoying. Get over it now.

StormingNorman · Today 14:25
What bit did you not read? She admitted cutting someone up, she apologised to the man. It was his disgusting manners that the op is talking about.

Okay he probably shouldn’t have sworn at you. But I would definitely have sworn under my breath if someone did that to me.

completely oblivious people do my head in, I know I am sometimes too (so I’m sure people get mad at me too), but whenever I’m in homebargins (and 99% of the time it’s home bargins 😂) people just stop in the middle of an aisle, or they swing their basket or trolley round, or they basically walk into me, and it always seems like they have no idea you’re there. And I always mutter under my breath 😂 and I can’t help but think, do you have no awareness of what is around you, or do you have so much self importance. It happens in car parks too, people just wander out. It baffles me honestly. Vast majority of the time I’m constantly checking where people are, so I don’t walk into them or whatever 😂

You've an unhealthy level of investment in this thread. Go and and get some fresh air. But look where you're walking.

mrsdineen2 ·
lol 😂

You were probably dithering. People get angry at ditherers.

😂

I accidentally bumped into a woman who was behind me yesterday. She was linking arms with another older women and (being behind me) would have been more aware of the fact I was there than I would be of her. I apologised profusely but first she said, "I nearly broke my back then" or something equally dramatic haha.

Don't give it too much thought. We can't all be on it 24/7. He may have just been shocked and blurted something out like that woman did. No excuse for swearing but I can maybe see why he did as it may feel careless.

Someone as work barged into me the other day and didn't acknowledge it at all. As if I was meant to scurry away from their superior presence. That was different though because there was no apology or anything. Whereas you did apologise.

ItsLikeEggyBoffAllOverAgain · Today 15:41
"I accidentally bumped into a woman who was behind me yesterday. She was linking arms with another older women and (being behind me) would have been more aware of the fact I was there than I would be of her. I apologised profusely but first she said, "I nearly broke my back then" or something equally dramatic haha."

How did you bump into someone who was behind you? Did you just stop dead in front of her?