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[just because]

So yesterday i was at Seomyeon subway station with the honeybunny just chilling.

So I'm wating to get off the subway and there was an ajumma lined up busting to get in the door. She wouldn't wait for me to get out and you could see she had to barge in.

She gave me this filthy look as i was holding the honeybuuny's hand so Idid something I wanted to do for a long time, just waited for her to rush in put down my shoulder and bang, the result was the ajumma body-check. She went sprawling back onto the platform and when she looked up at me I just yelled at her �� �� or what are you looking at.

I like this country and am usually a rational guy but my feeling was couldn't have happened to a nicer person.

[Mashimaro]

was your girlfriend embarassed? If not by you knocking the ajumma over, then by you shouting panmal (�ݸ�) at her?

[Swiss James]

yeah the bodycheck was cool, but it seems nicer to have pretended it was an accident or something I reckon.

[rapier]

Hilarious!!

[just because]

After reading my OP it sounds a little bit more vicious than it was. I was just pointing out that after all those times of being barged around I got a little back on someone who was going to push me out of the way anyway.

[hellofaniceguy]

Why is OK for koreans (or anyone) to be rude and get away with it? I believe in turning a blind eye, accept the rules of non etiquette, uneducated, etc.... in anothers country...when in Rome do as the.....and all that mumbo jumbo, but still...
what gives anyone the right to be pushy, demanding, hollier than you attitude? And the ajummas as well as korean men, need a dose of their own medicine.
So many seem to have so little common sense.

[bobbyhanlon]

i was getting off the subway the other day and a bunch of ajosshis were trying to get on without letting me off the train. if i had been polite, i would have ended up at the next station! so, i pushed my way through about five of them, and a huge collective 'aggghhhh' went up. very entertaining. i told my korean buddy about it later, and he said, 'congratulations, you're becoming korean!'

[paperbag princess]

i was with a friend of mine on the weekend and she has a fun way of dealing, she pushes everyone out of the way while saying "out before in". it made me giggle, i need to start doing that

[rapier]

I propose we all meet to compete for how many ajummas we can bowl over on the subway, in a sort of time trial. I'll take line two, we could nominate some official observers to ensure accurate counting of scores. Winner gets a bottle of soju. 10 points per ajumma, 15 for an ajjoshi.

[jajdude]

Seems to me that was a fine example of "When in Rome...."

[capa21]

I agree with the 'out before in' etiquette on the subway but what about walking on the sidewalk?
When people are playing with the phones and have their heads down and expect to not get run over they're wrong. I don't move an inch and I've knocked people off balance several times. I don't why but it really bothers me when people keep their heads down when they're walking.
Just a rant..

[ladyandthetramp]

How many of us on this board have started intentionally bumping the people who try to rush in without letting us out of the subway?

I do, though never very hard. I have had to push someone out of the train who decided to walk directly into me without letting me out first, but that's about the most extreme I've done.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

This reminds me of the time Rike (anyone remember her?) wrote in detail about her egging of a vegetable truck parked outside her apartment. And while I condone neither, I must say "bravo!"

jb, if you ever come to Seoul, drinks are on me.

Sparkles*_*

[trevorcollins]

[hippie]