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paul · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Taiwan

It's the people who walk directly toward you, expecting you to move, when they clearly have enough time and space to let you pass first, that piss me off to no end and can ruin an otherwise good morning.

I took no prisoners in Korea. So, one morning whilst walking down the relatively pedestrian-free sidewalk, this "ajumma in waiting" was walking right at me and I didn't give an inch.

Yep, she smashed right into me and almost lost her breakfast.

The thing that baffles me is the look they give you, as if we have done them some great wrong by holding our ground. I mean, this broad didn't even try to fake it by dropping her shoulder and looking around me. She just walked right into me expecting me to get the hell out of her way.

I certainly was not in Korea to teach anyone a lesson. But I am pretty sure that was the last time she did not yield to a western boy. Very Happy

Harin · Joined: 03 May 2004 Location: Garden of Eden

Listen carefully, you all ajuma haters.......please don't forget that ajumas were once hot, juicy, succulent, scantily clad agashis. They are just a bunch of old ladies w/ no sense of fashion. Pity them, but don't hate/despise them. Your Korean honeybunny will be an ajuma eventually. Trust me, it will happen. Very Happy

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Harin · Joined: 03 May 2004 Location: Garden of Eden

Seoultrader · Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Location: Ali's Insurgent Inn, Fallujah

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

Blue · Joined: 29 Jul 2004

how could you do that to the poor woman. all she wanted to do was get to a seat before all those inconsiderate men take it and make her stand on her hobbled leggs bent at a 90 degree angle for the next 20 mins.

heh. the funny thing is.. no matter how it all went down all any one will remember in any situation is that horible forginer who ramed, kicked stomped, failed to yeild.

heh.. i got into an argument with my friend before. she kicked me and hurt her foot. some how that was my fault too.

Laughing

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

I never yield getting off the subway, just ram through them. The key is to not look at them, or it becomes a personal assault. If you make eye contact, assume the scrumdown position, then shoulder barge, it becomes a grievious international incident.
If you act like they're just non- human obstacles you're moving out of your way, they accept it as normality.

ladyandthetramp · Joined: 21 Nov 2003

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I was in a busy subway station Saturday. Some old tard going the opposite direction decides he's going to break into a sprint. How far he could get in a busy subway station sprinting is questionable. And in typical Korean fashion he doesn't plan for things like people coming around corners or pillars. I was coming around a pillar. I see this old coot just get up to top speed. I have no time to dodge the old codger. He has no time to dodge me. I have time to do only one thing. I rotate, turn my shoulder square into his chest. I won't be knocked down by this idiot. Better he gets a nice bruised rib than I get a concussion.

I could tell he was in some sweet pain after running full speed into the point of my shoulder. I felt zero sympathy for him. Running in a crowded subway station? He'll think twice.

Later that day on a moving walk way, I was behind a group of male and female GI types. They were walking as a group and walking a bit slowly. I could have walked faster. But they were at least walking. A couple old ladies decided they wanted to run on the moving walk way. I feel some old lady poking my back and shoving to get through. I don't budge. Fsck you old lady, wait your turn. They dodge right and push their way through the fat white chick and then shove their way through a space between a couple more, grunting and moaning all the way. And then, again in typical Korean fashion, once they hit the walk way, they slow to half our speed. We easily caught up with them and walked past them. And you were wondering, what were they trying to do exactly?

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

Double header one morning last week. I ride a bicycle to work instead of the m-bike because work's so close. And going up a narrow street tried to get around a truck backing slowly up. It was raining and I was in a hurry, but the guy wasn't looking behind as he backed up. Between the backing truck and a lightpost banging on the truck side. Then he saw me. It felt like being trapped in a garbage compactor slowly vising its way around me in its blind, constricting embrace, annaconda-ish.
Five minutes later, on the first floor, the elevator door opens and there's an ajumma standing there, planted at the front of the elevator and in the middle of the elevator doorway. She's going up too. I'm there, she can see me, the door's open, but she isn't going to move. I'd just 'escaped death' with the truck backing up, it was the stormy morning of the recent typhoon, and I entered the 'vator while simultanously shoving her to one side, her hip. She staggered to one side and on the ride up I bellowed like the typhoon outside while demonstrating by 'charades' the sensibility of not obstinately blocking the doorway, and called her 'pabo', which I could tell she didn't appreciate. But she also looked amused and took it in stride. Korean people are not involved with personal space midemeanors either before they happen, or after. It was only after I called her a 'pabo' that I went on her list of recognizable objects.

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

Let me try. Profile: Uni educated middle class, married and living in NA for almost six years. Twice the amount of time I spent in her country,

Yesterday. Chandler square mall, walking into the food court area. Picture this: We are talking and walking, she is on my right and not paying attention because there is a family of five walking together and approaching at a greater rate of speed from our left. Now any normal north american person would sense this approach, and either veer off or pause and change course to avoid a collision. She would have seen this if she had been using her periphial vision. I had to pause and hold her back, quickly made apologetic eye contact with the only one of their group that was aware of what was going on (the mom). This happens everywhere we go. She makes fun of other people she knows that have tunnel vision, but to me-being aware of what is going on around you when you're in public spaces is easy. I don't want to hurt her feelings (hey I gotta get laid), so I've never even approached the subject. hmmm. I'm convinced she's not aware of her behavior.

I can only imagine what the hell goes on when she and her friends hang out and shop all bleepin day at these malls.