I find myself in this situation a lot. Stuck behind some slow-ass person on a narrow walkway/sidewalk. There should be designated lanes for these people. Just because you are not in a hurry to do anything with your life doesn’t mean I have all day to stare at the back of your head (which by the way I often want to punch) while I am doing the equivalent of tailgating you! Move the FUCK out of the way… please!
—Frustrated pedestrian
This article appears in Jun 18-24, 2009.
So everyone on the sidewalk should part like the Red Sea for you because you’ve got places to go? Maybe the orbit of the Earth should adjust to suit your needs too? If someone in front of you is walking slower than you, just go around them.
Way to overreact Jai. I’m with the OP, if you want to take your jolly old time strolling along, at least let the person in a rush get in front of you. It doesn’t take much effort to move to the side.
The OB is stupidty at large!
It doesn’t take much effort to go around either. Since the one behind is causing the hurry hurry situation and since it is also they that have a grasp on the situation and has the eyes on the situation (the one in front is oblivious to the one behind, and their special needs) it is clear the one behind must do the maneuvering, ….gee….just like driving on the road. Unlike driving however, we don’t walk on the sidewalk with rear view mirrors.
This happends to me alot when i am in a rush!
Although I do dilly daddle… alot
Why are people so shy to use their voices and just say “excuse me”. I do it all the time and it always works. A lot of the time people strolling down the sidewalk are distracted/daydreaming, and just aren’t aware they are in the way.
What about a solid wall of three hefties walking at a pace a snail would envy? If I’m in that much of a hurry, I go curbside, then bounce back on the sidewalk. No muss, no fuss.
I don’t think it’s an overreaction. It’s absurd and self centered to expect that someone walking in front of you should be expected to anticipate the walking speed of the pedestrian behind them and move out of their way. This happens to me all the time and I just walk around them and continue on my way, it’s not difficult.
Just go on the grass, we’re not confined completely to predetermined paths now are we?
Boo fucking hoo. Yes, it can be annoying but like Miles said, say something instead of thinking of punching them in the back of the head.
I’m tickled over the idea of the OP seething and raging over the back of my head while I’m happily oblivious. There’s karma in action for ya. hehe
Do what I do..push them out of your way…it is the same on the bus..if you take your time getting off the bus I will push you off the stairs…… I have rights…..
Everyone goes their own pace.. Just like you have the right to walk fast (or normal pace to YOU) they have the right to walk as slow as they please.
Ever hear of saying “excuse me” as you walk by? Generally people will move to the side to let you pass, and you could always nudge them on your way by if they choose to ignore you.
It’s not worth getting upset over.. get the sand out of your vagina, take a deep breath and practice the two words “excuse me”
Jesus, there are OPTIONS. It’s annoying, but you can walk around, go off the curb, hand on shoulder + excuse me, or a loud grunt. Not too hard.
LOL…I hope no one took me seriously…I was practicing my tough guy routine for the HRM streets as I pass you by……. or push you LOL
No worries mcgayle…no one took you seriously. We all know what happens to folks who push strangers off buses, or just push strangers in general ;~)
If we believe all the pundits; the world is going to hell in a handbasket and all fuck-face is worried about are slow-walkers?
You need to get a serious grip of reality and the next time you step off the sidewalk to walk around slow-walkers, do us all a big Fathers Day favour and launch your puss ridden carcass under the first bus that comes along.
Toodleeeedoo
A simple “excuse me” would probably suffice.
There’s nothing worse than someone tailing you because they’re in a hurry and get right up on your ass and depending on my mood I’ll go even slower OR move to the side and when they pass me in a huff I say something like “I hate it when people are all up in my ass” or some such passive aggressive remark. This usually happens in the grocery store….or Costco. Fuck I hate going to Costco Thursday-Sunday.
Live in China for a few days and your problems with the oblivious and inconsiderate in Canada will seem minuscule. There are approximately 360 people/km2 to Canada’s 3.1, and they still think they’re the only person on the street. To some points I think they purposely challenge your position on the street purely out of conditional retardation. Chill out and enjoy the slow walkers in Canada because you can at least say excuse me, in China, you have to sit on your horn.
I woould rather say “excuse me” and make my way around a slow walker than have to deal with a parcel of several friends walking together and taking up the entire sidewalk. For some reason, this type of group almost always gives me the evil eye when I’m trying to get by. C’mon people! Share the sidewalk!
awww…..Mr. IMPORTANT I’d feel bad for you but I just can’t reach that far
suck it
mcgayle, again.. you should consider leading by example, pushy pushy
I rarely get passed, but when it happens (as with runners) I hear them coming and move aside. It just seems that 95% of people are completely deaf and totally lacking of peripheral vision which would help sense there’s someone behind them.
Half the time you say excuse me to someone from behind, they spin around like you’re a fucking criminal waiting to attack, and they end up being MORE in your way because they’re then motionless.
If everyone could manage to walk in a straight line, on one side of the sidewalk or the other (which doesn’t seem that difficult, but apparently is) us human-speed walkers would have a much easier time and those timid, on edge tortoises could carry on at whatever pace they wanted.
Mr.man so true!!!!!
You do catch folks off guard…I pulled over for direction the other night and the folks with a pit bull were scared of me…..OMG too funny….we are creating a scared populace…anyway I walk fast, I have a long gait because I have long legs and for me to get stuck behind short folks and/ or persons with short legs who have short gait…dang…….I almost trip over them
There are just too many Sunday walkers when it aint even Sunday…….. if you are walking slow keep to one side and do stop walking up the middle of the side walk…..some of us actually have places to go….
LOL…i like the punch part. i used to tap on the person’s shoulder, and when they turned i sneak by them on the other side saying “thank you”…pissed a lot of people off but i laughed. no one ever did anything about it.