Today's lesson is: don't do kung fu in public areas. Last week I accidentally kicked a gentleman's bag on the subway platform while doing an explanatory gesture of a waibaitui. He picked it up and moved, giving me look that made me feel crazy on top of sheepish. Then today, I made an observation to Heng Ji about a level two jump. She proceeded to explain the introductory arm movement then accidentally hit the woman walking behind her in the face! Not hard or anything, just a sort of halfway gesture with her arm. But no one wants to find someone's hand in their face as they innocently walk down Grand St. and the woman was understandable shocked and upset.Poor Ji! She felt so bad! We were all horrified and apologized profusely, but the woman (who admittedly received the unpleasant shock of being caught in the face by Ji's hand) got exponentially angrier at us as we apologized over and over, then finally decided to accuse us of being drunk and left saying she was going to call the cops. Yikes!
I've accidentally hit people when over-gesticulating on the subway or turning around too fast in a store or something; accidents happen, whether kung fu related or not. Even so, I am fairly cured of ever, EVER even halfway doing a kung fu move outside of temple or my house! I'm curious, has anything like this ever happened to anyone else?
