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[philipjames]

That 'I smacked an ajumma on the subway yesterday' thread has run its course. Let it die. But surely there must be plenty of 'I smacked an ajoshi' stories out there. There have been plenty of times when I wanted to deliver a backhand to some rude bugger (usually traffic-related). Let's hear some stories. The closest (non-traffic related) case where I came close to hitting an ajoshi was (not surprisingly) on the subway. I sat down across from him only to be instantly fixed with the 'dirty foreign devil' stare. I ignore the clown and raise my newspaper to read when I hear him cough up a ball of phlegm and hork it onto the floor. I look down and there it is, right at my foot. I look up at the guy, deciding whether to slap him across the head or just ignore him. I decide to ignore him, but resolve to hit him if a second loogie comes my way. Never does.

The amazing thing is, there were other Koreans sitting near us, watching this. Not one says a word to the guy.

[fighton]

lol 19 pages is nothing compared to some of the other threads here. You gotta let it run its course...

[jkelly80]

Ajeossis are infinitely worse than ajummas. Ajummas have character. Ajeossis have rage, impotent, obsolete rage.

[sobriquet]

I swung my laptop bag up an ajoshis crack in the gym when he was bending over refusing to move from in front of my locker.

I gave him a minute but gave up after he carried on picking hiis nails.

A quick swing of the hip and my laptop bag connected right between his cheeks, I guess from the sharp intake of breath I may have clipped his sack that was hanging down.

A few unpleasant words were exchanged and he moved on down the lockers a bit.

[Xuanzang]

I wouldnt want my nice bag going anywhere near ajoshi crack or balls sack

[Jeff's Cigarettes]

Did you actually ask him to move before the crack shot? If you asked him and he refused to move u should have body checked him NHL style into the lockers, along w/ some close-in Thai style elbow swipes to his face so he doesn't forget. Then u could've said "oops" I slipped, I apologize.

[sobriquet]

[Bingo]

My favorite confrontation with a drunk ajoshi occured a couple of years ago. You know the type, the drunken salaryman heading home sees a white guy and decides he must talk to / confront him. I showed no interest in his efforts to approach me, so he starts cursing away about foreigners. I continue ignoring him, then he grabs my necktie. I think to myself, 'Here we go again." He's holding onto my tie for a good ninety seconds, and it's becoming really annoying and embarrassing. I don't want to hit the guy, so I appeal to passing KOreans to help me to disconnect this clown. Nobody helps, so I finally trip the guy to the ground, forcefully remove my tie and move on.

I run a few yards and get into a taxi, but the clown gets in beside me and continues swearing away. I get out, hoping that he will carry on in the taxi. But he gets out and starts grabbing at me again. I trip him to the ground again. Only this time I remove his shoes and toss them onto the roof of two nearby shops. One on top of this shop; the other on top of another shop.

Now, convinced that he can't pursue me without any shoes on, I jog down the street and climb into an approaching taxi. I look out the back window and there's ajoshi chasing after us in his bare socks screaming profanities at the top of his lungs. I just howled.

I can just imagine the conversation with his wife when he got home. "Honey, where are your shoes that my mother bought for you?"

[crusher_of_heads]

October of 2007 I was leaving Omokgyo Station to go to Beeroclock and there's a row of 4 kimberlys coming towards me. I am to the far left, and there's no room for me to go any further. Of course, the guy opposite me is about 5/9 with a huge boiler. None of them acknowledge me so at the last possible moment I move to my right with both elbows up, hitting them both. I didn't look back as I don't want to ever acknowledge kimberly dumbasses, but I enjoyed it.

[GwangjuParents]

[Ultimo Hombre]

90 seconds? You let him hold your tie that long?

[caniff]

I did something today that I'm not exactly proud of, but I couldn't help myself at the time.

On the subway, while I was standing there, a guy walking through the car banged into the bag I was holding at my side and kept going. I think I have posted before that this is my pet peeve.

I followed him through two or three cars and caught up to him. I tapped him on the shoulder, and when he turned around I wound up and kicked the bag he was carrying. I said "Same - same!!" while pointing at my bag and told him "Cho sim hae!!".

He started bowing and apologizing, and I let him scurry away. I guess there's one less inconsiderate asshole who'll be slamming into me or my stuff while they go on their fucking mission.

[Michael_75]

An ajosshi in my gym once complained about me for wearing my gym shoes outside, when in reality I had done nothing of the sort. As he hadn't personally seen me change them as I came in he assumed I hadn't. He started to complain to me in English "This is Korean gym etc." So I explained that I did change my shoes and offered to show him. The manager came over and explained to him that he saw me change them. He wouldn't let it drop and started off in Korean. I got annoyed and prodded him in the face and told him not to be so rude. This was possibly a bad move since he was bigger than me (he's a fairly big ajosshi and I'm a fairly small Westerner). I walked away, annoyed but glad I did something.

I asked my co-teacher the next day to translate what he had said to me, as I could half remember. "Ah" says my co-teacher, "he was offering humble apology". Next time I saw him it was me saying sorry... He's still a nob in my book though.

[moosehead]

a taxi driver adjossi once was in the wrong lane to turn - and he had my destination, it was NOT a miscommunication - I thought he didn't know where he was going - and I knew if he turned wrong I'd be in big trouble (no where to u-turn) - I was sitting in the front seat next to him

so I gently punched his arm trying to get his attention as I pointed towards the right and gave the K word for "right" - this guy swung around and actually hit me and pushed me away from him (not hard but his expression was as in " how dare I touch him" - get real !!!

I started shouting at him and walloped him good with BOTH fists and shouted to let me out - which he did - and I was STILL shouting at him and punching on him - and he looked scared out of his wits - I was so furious!!!! how dare he!!!!

and yes, I'm female guys. no, I didn't hit his face.

[travelingfool]