You may want to watch this video first, for context…
Back in the mid-90s, I was living in North Joizee, and one Sunday we decided to to take the family over to Manhattan for some window-shopping, food and just breathe in the atmosphere of the City. I’d been there many times before, and Connie had actually lived in Chinatown for a while, several years earlier.
Anyway, we were walking through Greenwich Village after lunch at some diner or other, when I spotted from some distance away a young guy walking towards us, showing the same kind of attitude as The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft in the video, bumping carelessly into people and in general acting like a total asshole.
So I quietly told Connie to get behind me and shepherd the kids towards the shop window and away from the street. She could tell from my attitude that something was about to happen, but as a one-time New Yorker she had street smarts and didn’t argue the point.
I watched this guy getting closer, and adjusted my position slightly towards the middle of the sidewalk, more or less in line with his approach. Then about two steps before he got close, I looked to my right as though window-shopping, and braced myself. Actually, I didn’t just brace myself: I leaned forward and hardened my stance. I might even have pushed forward a little.
So we collided. But instead of Mr. Attitude carrying on like nothing had happened, he bounced off me and flew off the sidewalk, smashing into a parked car and falling heavily to the ground.
I didn’t even look round, just carried on walking, but I heard Connie giggle, “Whoa… well, he had that coming.”
I fucking hate antisocial self-centered punks. My only regret after all these years is that I wasn’t in that video to dole out the same treatment to Richard Ashcroft.
Always loved the song, though.
I think this is the video you meant to link:
https://youtu.be/1lyu1KKwC74?si=jwHvEQVIfFkC77I9
Thankee. I think my brain is falling apart.
Next thing, I’ll be shooting AR-15s.
Oh, No …. Not that!
My experience in NYC is it was often the women doing the walk straight ahead and make everyone watch out for me, usually while involved with their phones, It’s amusing to have a 110 lb woman walk into a 250+ lb guy and wonder what happened. Because I wouldn’t dodge them because watch where you’re walking especially on a busy sidewalk.
Mark D
The closest I’ve ever come to that was some gen z twat at Walmart so absorbed in her phone, she couldn’t be bothered to notice she was due to collide with my shopping cart. I followed her lead and didn’t bother to warn her. I confess to have been marginally entertained, in a “look at the village idiot” kind of way.
Nice story. Glad the dirtball got what he deserved.
Back in Boston, a few years ago, I was in town taking care of brother, he was in for some bad news cancer stuff. So I went out to pick up some pizza, found the place, waiting for a ride back, I was standing 30 feet from the road on one of those real wide sidewalk/plaza spaces.
Back to the wall so to speak. I have a couple pizza boxes in my hands and some jizleak walks toward me completely oblivious looking down at his phone. So I say , “heads up”!
Fucker changes course to be a foot in front of me, and elbows me hard to knock the pizza on the ground. He failed. He saved his fucking life. I was in a bit of an emotional state at that time vis a vis my brother and think if he had succeeded I would have beat him into a smear.
People discount old guys who grew up in logging towns. Fucking jizleak punks do not know how to fight. They don’t have the blood.
“I hate rude behavior in a man, won’t tolerate it”.
Is the dood in the vid a dikwipe?
Yes.
But so is everyone else in the vid that doesn’t get out of his way.
I’m guessing that if you live in a rood environment, in short order you become rood too.
In the 40+ years I have been in business I have dealt with clients from every sate and without a doubt New Yorkers are the rudest, surpassed only by asshole Joysians (New Jersey).