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[Ilsanman]

I have an ankle injury so it is painful to have my foot in certain positions. So I stretch my legs out a lot. I am only 173 cm so it's not a big problem.
But if it becomes a problem one day, I will respond with a 'mal hajima'. I don't care what age, man or woman. rude is rude. I paid the same money, possibly more, to be on the subway.

Today a man got kinda mad at me. He was reaching into his pocket for his handphone and his elbow was maybe 1 inch from my jaw. I pushed his elbow down of course. That caused the problem. If he would shift forward in his seat maybe 2 inches it wouldn't be a problem.

[coolsage]

I live up-country, so rarely do I have the Seoul subway experience. I have been there, done that, and it's assuredly the rudest ride on earth. But even up here, where there is 'space', the locals behave as if every millimeter counts. I was having a between-class smoke the other day, and a student swept by so close that he took the ember off my cigarette with him. I'm hoping it burned his shirt, and parts of his body too. How dare you get that close to me, unless I'm rather fond of you? Answer that one, inderjic, if you can, and a happy Chuseok to the rest of you.

[FliptheCoin]

Yeah, I was at church (something I've since stopped doing) and one time had this ajoshi start ranting at me in Korean. Didn't understand a word except it had something to do with socks. Other Korean people standing around just kind of looked at me. Turns out he was telling me I should wear socks to church.

At the same church, I would sit up in the front row, as my director was the choir leader, so he would always sit at the front, slipping in and out between songs. The Korean part of the service he would translate for me, so I always sat up front (uncomfortable to begin with). One time an ajumma (obviously I noticed that the elder people of the church sat in the front pews), told me to move back because I was sitting in the same pew as her (there was only the 2 of us, not crowded at all).

Yeah just that attitude. Needless to say, I don't go to church anymore.

[just because]

I have a good subway story,
A few months ago i was on a subway and this man came on with his son. Anyway, short story is this man started bitching about because i was speaking Korean to a man. i shouldn't talk in Korean, i'm a waygook. I heard him but ignored it. What made it ironic was that his son had learned English in South Africa for 4 years. So i was Ok, until his son said to him, don't you speak English, you shouldn't speak in Korean.
I cracked....I went off at the father and told him how can he be so hipocritical, you need to wake up because its people like you that will keep Korea from progressing to a 1st. world society. I ended pushing him out of the subway at the next station and told him that if I saw him again and would smash him in the face. Major overreaction i know but that was the first time in 20 months I had cracked. Anyway, that is my subway story

[HardyandTiny]

[chomsky]