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Q: Why do people walk into me and nearly run me over?
Can't they see or something? I know a lot of my students wear glasses because they can't see very well. I am not small at all and I don't wear black cloths. Does anyone else get this happening to them?
12 years 30 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
Yea its crazy... as if they want to show this is their place and we in the way.....
there is no personal space in china second people dont pay attention. they bump into each other all the time so funny
I give the same medicine as Njord.
We have a new bus terminal (that have railings like leading sheep?) but the line is sometimes longer and this is where they really try to try their luck, i just move them firmly with my arm out of the line. Sometimes varsity students in a group and then the others are middle age people. I make it clear to them they have to fall in line as i wont give them a gap in front to me. Not 1 Chinese didn't understand my actions. They can see i mean business and is not just a weak little lady waiting for the bus.
I just dont think that chinese people are as concerned with everyday safety as we are. They know exactly the things which are most likley to kill them (oncoming buses) and anything beyond that they ignore.
It isnt that bad actually. I do kinda feel like some of the time we spend to much worried that we will throw out a him or slip a disk over something trivial.
On a more emotional level however, it pisses me off like no other. I used to walk into people back home, but at home I could stare people down. Here I dont come off as being nearly as willing to hole my own, so I loose all the games of chicken I enter.
I only had this happen once, with a group of guys walked up across the sidewalk and one didnt move. When I realized he wasn't going to move I shouldered hard him out of the way. No one seemed to notice. I thought it might start something, but I wasn't going to get shoved either.
It's basically a cave full of bats, they have special sonar. They can go around is massive clusters and not nearly crash into each other as much as they should. And it you stand still they maneuver around you without even looking up. But it's when you're walking that you end up getting bats flying into your hair.
It happens everyday to everyone...
Feel so luck don't need to take subway or bus to go to work...
But even on foot, sometimes it happens...
Don't feel bad, it happens...
