How to deal with aggressive people on the street???

pigpen

my favourite mine 'I don't speak english' .. they just look bemused.

I quite like 'no' in response to 'do you care about *anything*?' the 'yes, myself' is fun too.

I have lots of fun.

door knockers pee me off the most.. coming into my domain to wheedle money I don't have.. Let's just say I'm not polite

catoutthebag

If you say no thanks but they come up to your face still, I've found a firm but non aggressive clip round the ear hole works a treat

Guest101

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

I'm ok with these people when I'm walking or at the door but I don't think I cope very well when I'm cornered.

Earlier this year I completely froze in that situation and didn't know what to do.

I'm in a book club and we meet in a coffee shop that has a very long farmhouse table right in the middle of the shop. A smallish civil rights action group burst in and because of our usual central position at this table, they surrounded us and demanded we respond to whatever the cause c!lèbre was at the time.

Luckily, being a horror book club, we're a very mixed bunch and our two Cthulu guys are physically intimidating so all they practically had to do was stand up. The action group was mostly enthusiastic young women so it was only a verbal fight they wanted. But they did want a response and they were belligerent about it.

I still don't know how I should have coped with that because challenging groups like these don't accept silence or an ignore response.

I find a series of profanities usually works.


Out of curiosity why was a civil rights group interested in a book club?

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

I use sign language - the best thing to learn is "Sorry, I'm deaf"