The “goose” could have been a simple accident of not paying attention to where a person was going.
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That happened to me one time. Nothing I could have said would have convinced her otherwise. It was a case of not much room to move rather than paying attention.
My parents had a regular joke routine as moms desk @ dads office left little room to maneuver. Pardon me or excuse me works usually but there are “those people” that never understand