One time, I was eating with my family at a very full Chinese restaurant. We were seated in a niche that barely had enough space for two tables, so the other patrons literally sat back to back with me. The 6P-tables stood parallel to each other, broad sides facing, with two from their group and me wedged between them together, me in the middle. If someone leaned back over their chair, they’d be in the next patron’s personal space. Please keep that in mind.
Despite the overcrowded seating, we enjoyed our dinner, had a pleasant conversation and laughed a lot. The mood on the neighbour table was a lot more dull. Their conversation kept trailing off, with many awkward pauses. The guy behind me to the right was a mean curmudgeon and killjoy, whom I overheard making a number of rude remarks to his table. He complained repeatedly about the seating situation (which I get), but he made it everyone else’s problem.
This man also made no secret of his displeasure to sit next to us. We were there first. I initially sat with a relative who politely moved to make space for the other patrons, but there wasn’t enough space for me to move around the table as well. He glared at my family and me in particular like it was my fault, then grudgingly plopped in his chair. I thought he was just miffed it was so cramped and that was it. Hoo boy was I wrong!
Dude kept turning around every couple minutes to give us death glares. Pretty much every time the conversation was flowing or someone laughed at our table. At first we thought maybe we’d been too loud (we weren’t), but even when we spoke as quietly as we could understand each other over the buzz of the restaurant, he kept doing it. He even increased the frequency of his death glares and inched closer each time, too.
Eventually, it dawned on me that he was angry at us for having the audacity to speak our native language in his presence. We weren’t loud or obnoxious in any way. Dude just hated immigrants, especially when they had a better time than him and he couldn’t ruin it. He generally seemed like the sort who LIVES for ruining everyone’s mood.
Remember how close our chairs were? Dude invaded my personal space (which I HATE) every. single. time. he made his futile attempts to shoot lasers from his eyes at my family, sticking his head out even further as this farce went on. He even brushed me with his poorly shaved chin! This got annoying REALLY fast. Initially, I kept quiet because my family asked me not to make waves. But internally, I was seething, and I could see them grow increasingly annoyed, too. Especially when they also realised what his problem was.
When he tilted back with his chair to literally stick his head right over my shoulder (not an inch away from my face!), dragged his stubble over the delicate fabric of my top and my sensitive skin AGAIN, sprayed spittle in the direction of our food with an obnoxious loud huff, and leaned in so far he almost stuck his nose into my cleavage, I had ENOUGH. He reminded me of a crazed fan that pushed his way through a crowd to get way too close to a star, so I snarled right in his ear: "autographs will be given later!"
Dude flinched, paled and hastily jerked back his stupid head. My family erupted in roaring laughter that they weren’t even trying to tone down anymore. For the rest of our dinner, we ate unmolested. The other patrons left pretty soon after that, which made the evening even more pleasant.
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How was his nose almost in your cleavage if y'all were sitting back to back? Was he a giraffe??
Dude just sprouted his neck up and around. Or something weird.
Back to back refers to the whole tables. I sat between two patrons from the other table, so close that the backs of our chairs were practically touching at the sides. Like '—' ,—, '—' but with minimal space between them. If they reclined too forcefully or moved an elbow back too far, I could feel it against the back of my chair. As long as the chairs didn’t tangle each could slide a little closer to the other party’s table.
So leftmost '—' is that jerk, middle is me, i.e. he was behind me to my right, leaning backwards and getting closer and closer to my right shoulder as he glared at us repeatedly, until he grazed it. Like someone leaning in over your shoulder to look at e.g. a screen from behind you but gets way too much into your personal space. At last, he tilted his chair back, presumably after moving it slightly away from me (because he would previously bump into the back of mine) and suddenly his head appeared directly over my right shoulder.
Then he extended himself even further and lowered his head so that he actually breathed into my cleavage, face only inches above it. The backs of the chairs were fairly low, you could comfortably lean over them. He was a very tall guy, about 1,90m (6.23ft). I was in my mid-teens at the time, so 15-20cm (>0.5ft) shorter. He towered over me and could easily lean over from an adjacent chair. But yes, he did really crane his neck to the max. Absolute weirdo.
okay could be wrong…but do you think this guy was primarily huffing because he was racist/xenophobic (bc im not doubting that has smth to do with it)…or because he was being a creep? you mentioning you were in your mid teens and he was getting SO close to you and especially your chest makes me feel like this had something to do with him ALSO being predatory, but i could be too willing to assign blame.
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Just when you thought AI couldn’t get worse. What is this shit.
Well at least I'm getting better at spotting A.I posts.
Literally 😭😭 what the hell is this shit
I actually caught it in the first paragraph this time! Gotta love Reddit for that free AI detection training we are all getting lolol
Hearing that someone sitting with his back to OP was able to scrape his chin on her delicate top, almost got his nose in her cleavage, and also managed to spit at her food reminds me of this poem:
One bright day in the middle of the night Two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot each other.
The deaf policeman heard the noise, Came and shot the two dead boys. If you don’t believe this lie is true, Ask the blind man, he saw it too.
My grandfather used to quote that
My Mom taught this to me. I'd completely forgotten. Thank you for bringing back a great memory.
No, you just lack reading comprehension. Maybe try reading properly and actually using your brain BEFORE you try to mock people, so you don’t make a fool out of yourself.
I already explained it 3x but I can’t grasp it for people who can’t or won’t read properly. He leaned over the backrest of his own chair, twisting his upper body sideways and craning his neck. At last, he even tilted his chair back.
Since he was considerably taller, and the backrests were fairly low, he could easily graze my shoulder with his chin (which made me worry he’d catch threads with his stubble, because it was thin, delicate fabric) and because that top left part of the shoulder open, he also dragged his chin over my bare skin. Creepo McHorseface had a pretty long chin, btw.
You know how leaning over someone’s shoulder from behind to look at something in front of them works? Picture that, but uncomfortably close, almost cheek to cheek the last time. Ever seen a vampire movie? Or a neck kiss from behind? That’s how you get so close that you can breathe down someone’s boobs, face inches above them.
And no, he didn’t spit at the food, he made that loud "pffaah" Karen huff/scoff and sprayed spittle. Have you ever eaten at a Chinese restaurant with 5 people? Those tables get pretty full, so some of the food wasn’t that far away from him. I couldn’t tell you if his spittle actually reached it, but it realistically could. Small droplets can fly considerably further than that. Are you one of those gross people that free-sneeze all over the place because you don’t grasp that?
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“Unmolested” Are you by chance a Spanish speaker? 🤣
exactly my first thought😭😭me molestan los cognates
Poorly, very poorly written claptrap.
Oh no, is the little dumdum overwhelmed with basic reading comprehension? Do you need illustrations to get it?
No one is overwhelmed. You're just making shit up.
You’re a deeply unpleasant person.
So I don’t get the physics of it. He leaned back, probably tipping his chair on its rear legs, and got his nose close enough to be almost in OP’s cleavage? I don’t get it…
'—' ,—, '—'
Like this, but with minimal space between the chairs.
The two upward facing chairs are the two patrons from the other table, I’m in the middle. Leftmost is the jerk, so behind me to my right, since I’m facing away from him. He would lean backwards and to his right.
Mind you, he was also very tall and towering over me, while the backs of the chairs were fairly low, so he could comfortably lean over them. He would lay his arm on the backrest of his chair and initially just crane his head over to my right side. So he’d twist his upper body sideways and make like a not fully connected diagonal line between '—' and ,—,
Uncomfortably close already, but not directly over my shoulder yet. Eventually, he leaned in close enough that he grazed it, so I could feel his chin stubble on my shoulder.
At last, he actually tilted back his chair, extended his upper body and craned his neck as far as he could, so his head was right over my shoulder almost cheek to cheek, and then even a bit further than that. Like if you show someone something on your phone and they lean in from behind way too close to you.
That’s when he also lowered his head, so I felt his breath on my cleavage and his face was only inches above it. Like if a taller person leans in from behind to kiss your neck, though he thankfully didn’t do that at least.
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No, it’s because you have no reading comprehension.
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Cute Ai story 🙄
Just because you’re too dumb to write two sentences doesn’t mean everyone else is.
How do you know it as because of the language you spoke/because you're immigrants??
I’m laughing so hard at the moment! Thank you
Somehow unlike everyone else here apparently, I understand the seating arrangements, as I have been in a similar situation before and it really takes effort and intention for a man sitting next to you (basically butt next to butt) facing the table away from you to touch you and do these things...
I'm sorry this happened to you and that nobody believes you or even asks for an explanation for things they don't understand and rather condemns and accuses you.
I'm glad you stood up for yourself!
Love how people think this is AI or a bot. Account is 5yo with 11k contributes. This is a real person.
Rewriting bc the sub rules support bot engagement:
I agree. For once, it's a good old-fashioned fake story by a real person. Way more fun to clown on lol