Confrontation Yes/No?

[Efour]

Murdered him and his family + pets.

 

[Scam]

Did you even read what I posted? Someone went out of their way to walk along the carriage and purposely barge me out of the way. They didn't just take my seat

How long have you lived in London? That type of stuff happens every day. Maybe not with any real physical malice which makes yours pretty unforgivable/different, but if that's all it takes for you to resort to violence I'd be concerned about how short your fuse is.

 

[jsmoke]

Yep you'll likely get nicked if you hit them, CCTV everywhere. Not much of a fighter myself anyway. Grin and bear it. They will move onto someone else already. What goes round comes round.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Just LOL if you don't carry a quarterstaff for this type of situation.

 

[Caged]

If you reacted to every single end-of-bell that you encountered on a daily basis then you'd have no time for anything else

 

[Surfer]

This is why I wear headphones even when not listening to music...so I don't have to listen to nutters outside.

In the op case I would have belted out a few lines from a song bobbing my head and utterly ignored him.... Heck even if I wasn't wearing headphones i would have ignored him totally.

 

[Housey]

Never waste time or energy on an idiot. They don't have the ability to learn the easy way and it's not worth your time, emotion or risk to 'educate them' the hard way.

 

[Neil79]

If confrontation is unavoidable or someone is attacking my family or friends then it's a different matter. Time to put your big boy pants on and get stuck in.

This is exactly me!

 

[Angilion]

[..]
1) Felt it was not worth the agro

This. A stranger I don't care about being an ********...not worth the aggro. I don't care what they think. Their rudeness does me no harm. So not worth the aggro. Either that or they were trying to provoke me so they'd have an "excuse" for attacking me. Not worth the aggro and responding to them is a victory for them and I'd probably be injured.

 

[Rifte]

No issues, just a bad temper and if people are aggressive towards me they get aggression back as well.

I have a very similar response. Generally very mild mannered and easy going but I don't suffer idiots either. If this had happened to me I would have pulled him on it as well, most of the time in my experience the idiot is all bark and no bite.

I do censor and cap myself when I am out with my children though because I am fully aware that it could escalate.

Why am I like this? In short.....life....I just started to push back a little.

 

[ttaskmaster]

Err, no. The problem with people that like to mouth off is that they do it for a reason. 9 times out of 10 it's because they want a physical altercation. Why else do they go around mouthing off to people?

OP never said they were mouthing off. Apparently this person merely said the words. That suggests they had a genuine reason for saying them.
Were it me, I'd be looking around to see what I may have missed and why he thinks I'm not watching where I'm going, while prepared to apologise for whatever it was...

Do you really want to be the guy on life support because they respond to your "hilarious quip" with a sucker punch?

'Oh, I'm sorry, did I not see you there?'... If you classify that kind of good manners and common courtesy as a "hilarious quip" liable to get you beaten up, then perhaps you're not ready to go outside in public, yet...?

Some people aren't worth the air they breathe, you know what makes you a big man? Walking away.

A simple apology is all that's needed, even if the other person is mouthing off... and if they are out for a proper confrontation, turning your back and sloping off like it never happened isn't exactly a bright idea.

 

[Hiijinx]

Probably mutter something in my head and ignore him. I've always believed that most fights/attacks are avoidable and confrontation is just asking to get you a slot on the next victim segment of crimewatch.

 

[Dan103]

immediate dropkick

 

[Josh]

Boxing stance huzzah - fist under chin or gtfo.

 

[Malevolence]

Flop it out and pee on his legs, it's the only way to assert your male dominance.

 

[ttaskmaster]

Flop it out and pee on his legs, it's the only way to assert your male dominance.

Well, not the only way... but anything better is getting into 'Prison Rules' territory and most people on the outside won't understand...

 

[Roar87]

I'll stand up for myself if I feel disrespected. I'm not scared of confrontation with random people, but then again I live in the North where most people aren't carrying knives. I'd probably walk away if I lived in London. This hasn't really been an issue for me though, I found since I started lifting weights and got a bit of muscle this kind of stuff seems to have gone away. I'm not saying lifting weights makes you able to fight or anything, but it certainly makes you less likely to have to in my experience. If you're a small guy you're just more likely to get pushed around.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Drop my pants and ask him if he wants some lovin'

On a serious note I'm not sure what I'd do, I haven't been confronted since school age in public and that's to be expected as a kid.

As above I'm of decent height and muscle mass and have major resting bitch face so maybe that goes against people bothering, I'd probably just smile if I wasn't at fault, but if I was walking around head down into my phone and making others have to avoid me then I'd probably agree with him but without acknowledging it.

 

[Akagi]

Stick it in his bottom.

 

[inflames]

I am much the same and will stick for myself when needed etc. But i always try to walk away and ignore people like this, as its just not worth the effort anymore, specially as i have children now. But saying that i did find in the past being overly polite and using the word Sir and Madam for some reason winds them up even more.....

For example once i parked in my local Asda car park that was rather busy for 7:30am, i get out the car and some chav walks up with a bag of shopping what looked like cans of stella and starts to have a go at me because i have parked to close to his car. I look at both cars, i replied with something along the lines of "oh i am so sorry sir, i did not mean to park to close to your car, but if we look at how i have parked my car is in the spot square and even space round the car towards the line. Now lets look at yours sir, its parked all the way to one side. So who can't park their car correctly sir........"
The look on his face was priceless and so confused. Before long he to slung his shopping to the ground and started to give me a world of abuse.... " I replied with something like please watch you language please sir there are women and children present". Now this coming from me, i have a bad habit of swearing to much. The guy then gets up in my face, you know how they can be, so i replied "please Sir, lets see what will happen" he soon stepped back and i walked away saying "have a good day sir."
I must admit i was worried after all this, to come back to my car and find that it had been vandalised or something.