To the young woman at the Canada Games Centre a couple of nights ago: I feel like strolling down the middle of the track in your sock feet, fully absorbed in your texting is not the most appropriate use of the space. Yes, I should have said something and I didn’t. So I might be the idiot here, but still… —Just Trying to Walk in the Lines
This article appears in Jan 7-13, 2016.
A sign of the times.
Yeah people who constantly text are lame people … but I am not familiar with the Canada Games Centre, I don’t think I’ve ever been there. Do you have to pay for a membership? Was her text-walking preventing other people from using the space?
No, OB is simply being old. So fucking what if she’s texting and exercising? Who cares if you don’t like what she was doing. She did nothing wrong and broke no rules. Stop making older people like like knobs OB.
She was probably submitting a bitch to the coast about snow clearing.
Ageist!
There’s a protocol on tracks. Slower runners/walkers should keep to the outside lanes. Even then, if someone is in your lane and moving slower than you, the protocol is to call out, “coming through” to let the slower person know someone wants to pass. So next time, OB, keep your lane and simply yell “coming through”. Hopefully, the texter will get the message and move to the outside of that lane or to the next lane so you can get by.