Thank You! Damn IT!

My mandarin is still pretty weak. Today I accidentally lost control of those tongs you use to scoop food and threw a fistfull of noodles at the cafeteria employee. Ofcourse....I immediately said Xie Xie Ni. While I wanted to say excuse me....I ended up thanking him. Thanks for being there...because if you weren't there to catch all those noodles I would have gotten the wall dirty. For future reference....Doi Bu Chi (excuse me) will be the better approach.