"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<bs5ouc$9le6e$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> 
> bakayarou should suffice, but depending on your accent it might have the
> opposite of the intended effect (intimidation I guess?)
> 
> I always just smile and say sumimasen, myself. Although to be honest, when
> people bump into me they tend to kind of bounce off. No idea what size you
> are, but if I were smaller and more frequently in large crowds, I might get
> upset at all the jostling.

I actually asked her for what a Yak would say.  Basically something so
rude and insulting that the guy would either want to hit me or know he
was about to get hit.  Either way would be appropriate.

Noone is going to bump into me and make a dent short of a sumo - I`m a
big guy and a good bit past hefty to boot.  My problem was people
trying to run over my stroller and 4 month old - the guy who got
pushed almost got his ass kicked when he almost knocked the stroller
over then proceeded to give the wheel a kick as he was going past.  If
my wife had been nearby to hand the stroller to so I wouldn`t have had
to leave it unattended I probably wouldn`t have started anything
anyway but expressing my opinion of his jackassian manners in a
language he understood would have been nice.

Anyone who thinks the Japanese are polite and orderly has never been
between a herd of them and the free food at a supermarket on Sunday
afternoons - the second that free sample is put down you had better
not be between them and the food...