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 isn’t a bad idea actually. I think I’ve been too nice. There’s always people who think they own the sidewalk. I stick to the right, you stick to the right, simple.
They don’t shift position because you moved or initiated the move to the side to accommodate them.
Grow a fucking pair and play pedestrian chicken It honestly works.
This bitch has already been aired. Two demerits for you. Move along.
Some day I’m going to walk between a couple, pushing them both to opposite sides, if they don’t give me room!
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.
Here’s what I do: walk confidently, make eye contact, and refuse to wimp out. Twist at the shoulders to make accomidations if necessary, but if ya gotta throw a little shoulder, do it. I find saying “single file people, single file!” as you pass gets the point across…sometimes.
I particularily love it when folks stand in the way, chatting. “It’s a sidewalk, not a sidestand!!”
And if you see someone walking towards you with armloads of groceries, please move so they can get by! It’s bad enough having to carry your groceries home, but when people are taking over the sidewalks and wont move it just makes it much more awkward and difficult, especially if you’re the type who likes to slow down and then completely stop to have a cell phone conversation.