Hipster advice required

[Markymark]

Completely non-cycle related.

Can somebody please tell me if there's a cool way of turning around in the street without looking/feeling like an idiot. You know the scenario, you've gone the wrong way or you've forgotten something, etc

I've tried just turning 180 but feel like a mentalist. I've tried the elaborate miming of waving hands to demonstrate I've forgotten something but this is not much better.

I'm a fully grown adult, mortgage, kids, own business, rarely care what people think about me, but still can't get this one right!

 

[mickle]

Pretend to answer, or read a message on, your phone.

 

[AndyRM]

What a splendid thread this could become...

 

[welsh dragon]

There is no cool way as you put it. Whatever you do you will look like a muppet and the more you wave your arms around and or pat your pockets, the more of an idiot you will look.

Just turn around for gods sake, act like a man and go back, minus all, the gesticulating.

 

[Over The Hill]

As with Mickle - taking a call or text, but I think you have to dash back with a degree of urgency for that to work.

Or of course just walk right round the block.

 

[Fnaar]

The choices are basically
a) Max Wall: kick one leg out front, then whip it back, using the gained momentum to enable you to swivel round on the other foot, thus executing a stylish, nay, potentially amusing about-turn for the delectation and entertainment of both passers-by and yourself. It helps if you are wearing tights, monkey boots, and have a protruding posterior aspect and very receded hairline.
b) Michael Jackson: moonwalk backwards (or is it forwards? I can never tell) down the street, then (just as you touch the brim of your trilby), grab your undercarriage with your 'spare' (possibly gloved) hand,, sing 'ow' and do a smart about turn.

 

[Markymark]

The choices are basically
a) Max Wall: kick one leg out front, then whip it back, using the gained momentum to enable you to swivel round on the other foot, thus executing a stylish, nay, potentially amusing about-turn for the delectation and entertainment of both passers-by and yourself. It helps if you are wearing tights, monkey boots, and have a protruding posterior aspect and very receded hairline.
b) Michael Jackson: moonwalk backwards (or is it forwards? I can never tell) down the street, then (just as you touch the brim of your trilby), grab your undercarriage with your 'spare' (possibly gloved) hand,, sing 'ow' and do a smart about turn.

c) Something a bit like this from the Daddy of cool, Mr T?

 

[sazzaa]

Simply turn 180 and don't care. Folk around you probably don't care either.

 

[Kestevan]

Oh FFS.
If this is what people are worrying about, no wonder society is on an inevitable downward spiral to oblivion.

Just turn round.
No-one cares.

 

[ASC1951]

[QUOTE 2936470, member: 9609"]wait till a pretty woman walks past then turn and follow her.[/quote]Some years ago I did exactly that .... and with my eyes firmly fixed on her I walked smack into a road sign. It gave me such a fearful crack on the side of the swede that I thought at first some unseen boyfriend had tried to deck me.

 

[HorTs]

I'd go for Fnaar's a option, but instead of the 180, do a 540. Showmanship.

 

[Cyclist33]

Oh FFS.
If this is what people are worrying about, no wonder society is on an inevitable downward spiral to oblivion.

Just turn round.
No-one cares.

It should be "around" not "round" - I think careless use of language is a much greater threat to "society"!

 

[Cyclist33]

Completely non-cycle related.

Can somebody please tell me if there's a cool way of turning around in the street without looking/feeling like an idiot. You know the scenario, you've gone the wrong way or you've forgotten something, etc

I've tried just turning 180 but feel like a mentalist. I've tried the elaborate miming of waving hands to demonstrate I've forgotten something but this is not much better.

I'm a fully grown adult, mortgage, kids, own business, rarely care what people think about me, but still can't get this one right!

Either stop, whip out a phone or camera, and take a series of shots that involve turning around and going back; or stop nonchalantly, pull out a cigarette, light it, take a pause then turn back and head off the way you came.

 

[Paul99]

Walk backwards?

b) Michael Jackson: moonwalk backwards (or is it forwards? I can never tell) down the street, then (just as you touch the brim of your trilby), grab your undercarriage with your 'spare' (possibly gloved) hand,, sing 'ow' and do a smart about turn.

This^^^ Moonwalk!!!!!!!!

 

[Cyclist33]

[QUOTE 2936578, member: 259"]Pretend that you've been stung on your bum by a wasp and hop around from foot to foot going "ow!" in a loud voice, gradually turning as you do so.[/quote]

Better still. Persuade a wasp to sting you on your bum then hop around in genuine hagony before clutching your swollen cheek and hobbling off home.