Originally Posted by
sky-rat
told her that anyone with a hardhat, hi-viz vest or a little light-up stick must be obeyed and any time spent trying to figure out why we were being told what we were being told was not going to be a high-quality use of time or brain-space. Just do what's told.
You could put that in the nuts thread as well...
Because I am a clueless gaijin I found many occasions where a fellow was looking very sternly at me and walking directly towards me. Smiling and stopping doing what I was doing or turning round and going the other way seemed to work. They didn't start smiling, but they did stop advancing.