I can't help wondering if on another forum somewhere there is an entry like this:
I call Mall Ninja
I can't help wondering if on another forum somewhere there is an entry like this:
Are you his friend? Some long lost buddy? Why should he have acknowledged you? If you felt a casual greeting was so called for in this situation, why did you come at him with the "I love Coke-zero" line? What's wrong with "How you doin' tonight?"Guy walks over to the machine 6ft from where I'm standing, never acknowledges me, and starts trying to put a dollar in it. I thought it was strange that he didn't do something or say something to acknowledge the fact that we were the only two people there and standing only 6ft away from each other. Hell, he didn't even look in my direction.
Sometimes when I am standing around, I glare at people who are driving Lexus. It's called being jealous. Or in different terminology, hatin' on someone.That look he gave me at the coke machine was a far cry from the arrogant one he gave me as I originally drove past the gas station...
I once asked a woman in a parking lot if she had a pen. She took on some kind of martial arts fighting stance and started screaming. I ran away from her, fast. Why? I didn't want to get kicked in the throat. I can only assume that she later told her friends that she had scared away a would be rapist. What she actually did was scare away a young man who wanted to endorse his paycheck.If a stranger, no matter the color, suddenly turned and exclaimed "Damn, I love Coke Zero™" in the middle of the night in a dark parking lot, I'd be a little freaked too.
I call Mall Ninja
Or gee whiz...you could have been the first one to be cordial by saying something like,"How ya doing?"
That would have broken the ice. You had nothing to lose due to your CC.
I can't help wondering if on another forum somewhere there is an entry like this:
I was hanging out with some friends where we usually do, and this guy drove by and stared me down. A little while later I went to get a Coke, and darn if that same guy wasn't at the soda machine down at the Piggly Wiggly. He didn't say a word to me when I walked up, no greeting or anything. Kind of gave me the creeps. Then all of a sudden he got this real aggressive look on his face and barked out, "Damn, I love Coke Zero," in this stern tone of voice that wasn't at all appropriate to what he was saying. I tell you, it was weird, like he was on drugs or something. Good thing I had my pistol with me - I thought it was going to go bad, but I was able to disengage and get away from there without shooting anybody, thank God. Do you think I should have called the police?
...out gets the fellow that was at the gas station staring when I went by...
yes maybe it was a mistake to go out there at that time, but are we (all of the good people) going to let them (the bad people) decide whether we get the coke zero we want? he didn't go out looking for trouble he even went farther to avoid it and this guy came after him so to speak. I probably would have done the same for a root beer. the "Damn, I love Coke Zero™" was as good as any way to disarm somebody, sometimes a little acting crazy can defuse the situation better than trying to look tuff.
just my .02
You say the guy was middle aged huh?... 35 or 40ish? hmmm. I have a slightly different take on the situation. Me thinks perhaps he mistook you for a temporary boyfriend. Thats why you scared him so much. He was probably looking for love in all the wrong places.
The part about this situation that is the most telling is that the guy left a gas station to go buy a pop. Don't all gas stations sell pop? Sure, the guy could have been on his way home, then got a taste for a pop... but that is a stretch.
Haven't some of you had situations where you just get a bad feeling? The possible situation was ended before it was started. I think it is a good outcome to a situation that somebody didn't feel right about.
If I know it's late, and rowdies hang out in a given location, and said rowdies are known to be hostile to any member of another ethnic group, I stay the H@#$ away from there and go home for my Coke Zero.
I can't help wondering if on another forum somewhere there is an entry like this:
I was hanging out with some friends where we usually do, and this guy drove by and stared me down. A little while later I went to get a Coke, and darn if that same guy wasn't at the soda machine down at the Piggly Wiggly. He didn't say a word to me when I walked up, no greeting or anything. Kind of gave me the creeps. Then all of a sudden he got this real aggressive look on his face and barked out, "Damn, I love Coke Zero," in this stern tone of voice that wasn't at all appropriate to what he was saying. I tell you, it was weird, like he was on drugs or something. Good thing I had my pistol with me - I thought it was going to go bad, but I was able to disengage and get away from there without shooting anybody, thank God. Do you think I should have called the police?
It sounds to me like he was sitting at the gas station then you drove by on a nice little female car. Then he thought he would follow and see if he could hook up with some hot females but then he realized you were a guy and it got awkward. He was prolly more scared of you.