How would you like your husband/partner/boyfriend to act in this situation?

[dullestofall]

• Say you both are in a busy, crowded place walking towards somewhere and out of the blue there is an influx of people walking the opposite direction into you
• Then as you both negotiate your way round people, you both hear a woman behind you, maybe 2-3 meters away, shouting and spewing swear words
• Then a man who is with her starts doing the same - however you don’t know what it is all about / who it is aimed at - but it seems like your husband/partner/boyfriend is sure it is aimed at him

What do you think he should do?

Walk away

apologise for bumping into her?

what did he do?

Walk away.

Draw a samurai sword and decapitate both of them.

Walk away

He says there was no bumping into anyone

Just carry on walking. Even if it was directed at your husband, the couple don’t seem like the type to be reasoned with or to be receptive to apologies!

I'd expect him to recognise the potential for the situation to escalate and to walk away before it did.

No bumping into? Just keep walking. Probably comment to me about it quietly, but no action.

Ignore them and carry on walking.

Walk away, don't escalate the situation.

LTB

As they both sound like nutters I’d hope he’d walk away.

Don’t argue with stoopid.

Well come on then @dullestofall what did he do?

Definitely walk away. Over the years I've learnt never to engage with people like this. Don't even make eye contact.

Given the crowd is in front coming towards, and people behind are, well, behind you, what have they to do with his position? I would assume it can't be anything to do with me, unless I actually knew that they were only behind due to overtaking and barging through them. In which case he needs to learn to move with the speed of the crowd, but if he wants to barge ahead, then he needs to take the criticism for it.

Laugh it off and say ‘what was that about’ while walking away

Immediately headbutt them

Ideally rip his shirt off and flex his bulging muscles. Wave it around his head while shouting "Who is disturbing the peace?". Jump on top of a white horse (origin unknown), pull me onto the horse and we gallop off while Texas Holdem plays.

We then get ice cream. Also he vacuums the house when we get home. We immediately forget about the shouting.

Leap in slow-motion into the air spewing bullets like The Matrix? Get out his lightsabre? Call the UN?

Or just not engage and keep going, assuming he didn’t actually attack the peoole?

Well i know I'd like to think I'd just walk away, that's the most sensible thing. But in reality I'd probably turn around and ask what the problem is...so I guess I wouldn't blame my boyfriend if that's what he did. I think it's self defence instinct

We not going to find out what he did??

I misread!
Well he would walk away because I would be walking away.