So I was in line for a night club and got talking to this girl. Her boyfriend was with her. She was quite talkative which was fine. Then she started to skip ahead of me in the queue (line). If it wasn't for the fact that I'd already been chatting to her I probably would've just left her ahead of me.
At one point while facing into me, she said "I'm going to skip ahead and there's nothing you're going to do about it". I said nothing. I didn't like that. And the fact she was facing into me when she was saying it (as I was facing forward) made it even more taunting. But what's interesting to me, is that it was if she was getting this confidence from the fact that her boyfriend was standing next to her. And to be honest, if he wasn't there I would have tested her. I might have leaned into her closer and shouted "oh really?" and make her wonder what I was about to do. I could have easily picked her up and passed it off as joking behavior.
I think why it annoyed me was that what she was really saying was "you're afraid of my boyfriend aren't you?" On hindsight I doubt her boyfriend would have cared if I picked her up... he actually looked like he'd had quite a bit to drink. At the time I was in a different city and I always take the view that you don't know who you're messing with. I think in such situations it might be best to indeed go ahead and challenge such people, but to perhaps be ready to back down if things get really serious. In other words if her boyfriend was a gangster he wouldn't have just beaten me up straight away... he would've given a warning first.
At one point while facing into me, she said "I'm going to skip ahead and there's nothing you're going to do about it". I said nothing. I didn't like that. And the fact she was facing into me when she was saying it (as I was facing forward) made it even more taunting. But what's interesting to me, is that it was if she was getting this confidence from the fact that her boyfriend was standing next to her. And to be honest, if he wasn't there I would have tested her. I might have leaned into her closer and shouted "oh really?" and make her wonder what I was about to do. I could have easily picked her up and passed it off as joking behavior.
I think why it annoyed me was that what she was really saying was "you're afraid of my boyfriend aren't you?" On hindsight I doubt her boyfriend would have cared if I picked her up... he actually looked like he'd had quite a bit to drink. At the time I was in a different city and I always take the view that you don't know who you're messing with. I think in such situations it might be best to indeed go ahead and challenge such people, but to perhaps be ready to back down if things get really serious. In other words if her boyfriend was a gangster he wouldn't have just beaten me up straight away... he would've given a warning first.