Sidewalk encounter...

homercles337

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This is a rant, and a commentary.

I was walking from work to home today (its about a mile and a half. I didnt have to work today, but that damn protestant thing). I walk at a good pace and encounter a group of 4 in a rectangular formation. They are situated such that they occupy the ENTIRE sidewalk. I decide to make a point and bisect their group. Little did i know that the gravitational force of one would be significant. I nearly clipped her. I managed to clear the group and heard "shit talking." I return in kind (in this conversation i shall refer to parties in terms of quadrants, i have also added vectors for velocity comparisons in my image below):

QIII: Damn! Whats yo problam!
Me: Wha...?
QIII: Why you get so close foo?
Me: Why are you so inconsiderate as to occupy the ENTIRE sidewalk?
QII: We walk where we wants!
Me: How about exercising some fucking consideration?
QIII: Wha dud you call ma gurl?
Me: I said, exercise some consideration to your fellow pedestrians BITCH!
QI: Ohhhh, he didunt just says that...!
Me: Shut your fucking pie hole!

walking past, then i hear shit talking...stop.

QII: Ohhh, he stopped!
Me: Look, my behaviour was inappropriate. I want to apologize.
QIII: Damns right!
Me: Look, im sorry i shouldnt have said what i did or call you a bitch.
QI: Dats right!
Me: Yea, i apologize. But you shouldnt intentionally occupy the entire sidewalk.
QIII: Wha you sayin'?
Me: Look i apologized, but can i ask that you be considerate and not occupy the WHOLE sidewalk?
QIII: No, i walk wheres i wants! You aint gunna tells us wheres we walk!

My illustrator skillz be mad! Here is the image....
Image

Disclaimer: all dimensions are estimates...and i suck at illustrator.
 

Fritzo

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A simple "EXCUSE ME" while you plow through them, and then not a word as you walked to your building would have proved your point better.
 

homercles337

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Originally posted by: Fritzo
A simple "EXCUSE ME" while you plow through them, and then not a word as you walked to your building would have proved your point better.

I have been in this situation before and did the "excuse me" thing. If i had said that in this situation it wouldnt have made a bit of difference. This situation has happened twice before and "excuse me" was used but today i was pissed. :|
 

dighn

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lmao nice diagram
you really shouldn't have wasted time with them. they were obviously jackasses, and jackasses in large groups tend to act more like jackasses.
 

homercles337

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Originally posted by: pyonir
You apologized?

Yea, i stopped to do some shit kicking (QIV was the only guy--i will never hit a chick) and he looked "concerned." He was just a kid (maybe 25) and i felt bad for him.

BTW, QII is a kid in a carriage.
 

Number1

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Here the title of one of your threads in a couple of months.

Sidewalk encounter!!

I am posting from my hospital bed :-(
 

compuwiz1

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The Q's are dark, according to your illustration. Do you always take your life into your own hands like that? Are you Chuck Norris? :Q
 

DangerAardvark

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Originally posted by: meltdown75
you betta recognize, foo!

HA! The OP just had an encounter with the A-Team. Good thing you apologized, you don't want a mad B.A. Barrachus at your back.
 

Kelemvor

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Originally posted by: Fritzo
A simple "EXCUSE ME" while you plow through them, and then not a word as you walked to your building would have proved your point better.

That's what I would have done. Or I'd have just went around them. *gasp*