You know when you walk into a public toilet and someone is coming out and you cross paths in that little space between doors. Normally there is a little smirk as you shuffle past each other.
Or the footpath smirk when you are head straight for someone and then you both divert to the same side and smirk again.
Well yesterday Oscar and I where walking home from the post office and a man came out of the brothel just as Oscar’s pram was going past the door, so there was almost a collision. The man gave the little smirk as I brought the pram to a halt. But I didn’t really want to smirk back, as in this situation it wasn’t like he had just done a sneaky poo and we where crossing paths in the bathroom. I know what he had just been doing and i didn’t want him to confuse the smirk of ‘seedyness’ with the smirk of ‘whoops we almost collided’.
Should I have smirked?
i’d say no smirk