For those groups of two or more peds that can’t yield nary a sliver of sidewalk to oncoming or passing foot traffic, or the Crackberry addicts that can’t look up, here’s a suggestion – don’t get all hateful when you can’t absorb the hip check tackle on impact.
Seriously, if being in a back rank of your pathetic sidewalk phalanx shatters your ego I suggest you’ve got some bigger problems. Here’s the thing – yours truly isn’t stepping off into a snowdrift or hopping into the street so you can stride along shoulder to shoulder with three of your bumbuddies. I’ll do that for wheelchairs or strollers, not for healthy self-absorbed twits like you.
— Braced for the Collision
This article appears in Feb 19-25, 2009.
Fuck yeah.
YUP!!! I hear ya there, I go out of my way to make room for folks on the sidewalk and I make sure they see me do it, and if after that they don’t show me the same respect I automatically give to them I plant the fucking shoulder.
FUCKERS!!!!!
OMG! I thought I was the only one that this annoyed. three people walking shoulder to shoulder and I have to jump to the side for them…couldn’t one of them just move for a sec? God, I’m never doing that again. I’ll run them right over.
I never give in more than is necessary, if they don’t want to move, they get the shoulder. I don’t care if it’s not lady-like. And I don’t appoligize.
Sometimes, as a gentle reminder, I’ll direct them: “Single file people, learned it in Kindergarden!” or “Don’t bother moving a bit, I can walk around you!”
Might be a bit bitchy, but people have to understand that they’re ignorant. How else are they going to learn?