stupid places you have bowed at....

[lilsempai]

Alright. Let me be the first to ask... why?

Were you asking me?

I'm an assistant instructor, if someone took an interest in training because they saw me bowing then I get a point (or something - new system and I haven't quite got the hang of it) for that week.

Maybe 'looking forward' was an overstatemet.

[KarateChick2009]

I was at a sleep over, and my friend's mom said to wipe your feet, well sice im used to wiping my feet and bowing at my dojo- I wiped my feet and bowed. SHe looked at me funny and said- What r u doing i said oh nothing......

[TSD Y049]

I bowed while leaving my english class to go to the restroom last year. The whole class started craking up and when I got back me teacher gave me a lecture about trying to make the class laugh!

[June1]

LOL! That's a great anecdote! I can just think of how my English teacher would react... I'm sure he already thinks I'm a little weird. That would be the icing on the cake!

[mindsedgeblade]

I got a really strong urge to bow before crossing the street tonight. Managed to fight it down though. It was really wierd- must be spending too much time on KF

[aefibird]

I've only bowed once in error outside the dojo (it was when I was entering the Post Office for some reason...) but I have said Osu and Hai to people before. I'm sure you all know about the funny looks you get when that happens.

I've got my bowing mixed up before, though. I've been known to bow and say Osu in Wing Chun and Tai Chi before, and I've also done the clapsed hands gesture from Chinese MA in Karate class too.

[greenbelt_girl15]

I train at a school gym and after some of our classes there's open gym for all of the kiddies since all of the kids are coming in as we are leaving I bow when going out.Haven't got any comments yet just a few weired looks.

We also used to train at a public scoll gym so now everytime I'm there I have the strong urge to bow,most the time I check myself but I have bowed a few times going in.

[Kieran-Lilith]

Heh, I have a new problem. I don't know WHERE to bow now. We just switched dojos, and now there's no pretty red lines that tell me I bow there or else. We're betting we bow at the edge of the mats and such, or so we hope....and now I don't know where we'll line up to bow in....huh....Sensei's gonna have lots of new rules to teach...

[SanShou]

In class we always say "yes sifu" or "no sifu" after questions that they ask... so now whenever i get asked a yes/no question by anyone I start to say "yes sifu!" or "no sifu!". i'm sure its quite funny.. especially in school when a teacher asks a question and no one answers except the goofy kung fu kid who almost calls the teacher sifu.

[strangepair03]

Once, after class, I stopped to get a bottle of water at a convience store, a woman was walking out and held the door for me, I grabbed the door and said "domo" while bowing....I got a look like I had three heads and they were on fire!!!