Bumping into People
Posted by Peter on 12 January 2006
To bump into something means to collide with something, or to knock against something. But in colloquial speech, it also means to meet someone unexpectedly.
For instance. Today I went to the supermarket. Unfortunately, as I was parking my car, I bumped into a lamp-post. When I went into the supermarket, I bumped into Harry Johnson. I hadn’t seen him for years, so we had a long chat beside the cat food. Now a joke.
A short-sighted man walked into a supermarket. Guess who he bumped into?
EVERYBODY!
