Argh, I just had a fucking awkward race-based moment. I was in the hospital with my good lady and we were leaving. We turned the corner to the lifts and there was one black guy getting into the empty lift. I was walking towards it without looking at the 'up/down' arrow, made eye contact with him and just as I was about to smile*, the missus said "come on, we'll take the stairs". She'd noticed the lift was about to go up and we were going down. Thing is, because of the way I'd been heading towards the lift it looked like we were swerving it just because of him and as we'd made eye contact, he shot me a quick 'fuck you' look. For some reason I kinda gave him a 'sorry' look that must have made it even worse. Just shit all round really.
*I always tend to make eye contact and smile at people in situations like that. Fuck knows why, I get it from my Dad.