Okay, so if youre not a complete hermit you’d know that halifax is covered in ice and not every sidewalk is shoveled to perfection. On snowy, icy and/or sloppy rainy days, walking on the sidewalks through this city can feel like youre doing a neverending triple jump marathon. So next time youre walking side by side with a buddy, I dont give a fuck how witty and stimulating your conversation may be…go into single file for two fucking seconds if you see someone walking in the oncoming direction. Im tired of walking through ankle-deep puddles, and bounding over snowbanks because youre too wrapped up in your lame conversation to share the damn sidewalk. Next time, Im body checkin a bitch.
—shove-less
This article appears in Jan 22-28, 2009.
That is a personal pet peeve of mine. I always move to make room, single file or whatever. Then you come accros some jackass who doesn’t feel like stepping ahead or behind the person they are walking with to let me by.
So! I started playing; “Side walk chicken.” When I see some people coming in a group, I don’t move, they will not walk into you, and very quickly realize that your not going to move off the path. Some times it comes to their stopping and looking at you, just look at the side walk, in a manor that shows your surprise in that he is in fact, on your side of the path haha.