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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: What's a polite way to handle someone that cuts you in line in China?
Any suggestions?
12 years 20 weeks ago in Health & Safety - Beijing
If they're elderly I'll let it slide, but if they're young enough to know better I'll just cut straight back in.
mattaya:
Nice!!...what if they are like middle aged? Has it happened to you yet?
Yeah cut straight back in.
Polite way is just to not let it bother you and cut right back as if it's perfectly normal.
dharma86:
However, the grannies are the most notorious. You just got to forgive and forget that,,,
mattaya:
One way that I prefer is to not say anything at all..I like to ask politely with another sense the smell...I might burp in their ear or pass gas so it smells bad and after that they usually give me my spot back>
The classic tap 'em on one shoulder and then cut in from the opposite side.
TedDBayer:
ha ha thats sumtin i woo do , but if it angered me, grab them by collar and move them away.
Daben beat me with my answer, that is exactly what I do, tap them on the shoulder and when they turn to look, slip around them so I am ahead again.
There isn't any. Push them out of the way and shame them in public. It's the only way if you don't want to look weak.
Humiliate them. Being polite will only get you a strange look.
I tap them on the shoulder and say NO...then point them behind me. Works everytime. I usually let it slide with old ladies' but not with anyone else.
It's like driving in China, unless you hold your ground and push your way in you will NEVER get to where you are going.
Why do i need to be polite to a pig? I push him out the way. I even used hit token he inserted at the exit of the metro as he tried to push infont of me. It caused a lot of havoc but no one will push me around.
Can't I just get some pepper spray?
DaBen:
Won't help in Chengdu, you're kitchen will feel like it's filled with pepper spray the first time you try to cook fresh Sichuan chilies.... On second though, it might make them hungry enough to get out of line and find some place to eat.
I hit him and if he does not move hit him again harder usually 2nd hit is understood