Originally Posted by
Katie B
Now, there I disagree. There are many occasions when I've been taunted in the street. (The standard taunt in France, by the way, is "How much for a blow-job?") My response is always to try responding by talking to the guy reasonably and it almost always works.
Why? Because loudmouths like this, as everybody above seems to agree, are talking without thinking. It's almost a conditioned reflex with them. They expect you to come back with an equally conditioned reflex - fight or flight. So as any Judo wrestler can tell you, the secret is to take them off-balance by doing the unexpected, by responding as if they've made a reasoned comment. This, I find from experience, makes them suddenly sober up and apologise, or even enter into a sensible conversation where they actually learn something.
I wonder why so many of us allow our actions to be dictated by yobs...?