MOVE , why won’t people move out of the way when I’m jogging. And I’m not talking about busy streets, its usually just you and me on the sidewalk pal. You stand side by side and force me to run into places screaming “come on roll your ankle”. I want to drop kick you in the chest and keep going. The worst are the middle walkers, pick a side of the sidewalk for the love of god. Or the side switchers, you have to guess 6 times which side to pass them on because they look like they are walking home from the Dome after dollar drinks. My personal favorite is the dirty looks I get when I have to sweatily squeeze by a little to close, “so sorry I inconvenienced you trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle”
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I especially love it when said blockers are 50 pounds overweight and smoking a cigarette. “Oh sorry, am I interuppting your heart attack preparation?”
How ’bout three joggers running abreast and driving walkers like me off the sidewalk? Yes, I walk because 20 years of jogging blew my knees out about five years ago. Good luck with all that pavement pounding, sweetcakes, and watch out for the flying icepick if I see you and two buddies hogging the fucking sidewalk again.
What? now runners and walkers can’t get along either? I guess we will have to petition council to install separate pathways for everyone: Speeders to the left, speed limit pace cars to the right, cyclists to the paved shoulder, then roller bladers, unicycles, skateboarders and pogo sticks (in that order). The 50′ wide sidewalks now go from sprinters on the right lane to runners then joggers then people with strollers then walkers and finally, old people with bad hips keeping to the far right. There, that should do it.
Its not a Walker Vs. Runner thing. I’ve been walking and not have people change their side-by-side strattle. Some people don’t care, and care less how fast you are coming towards them.People suck. Have a game of chicken with them and see who moves.I’ll add, I hate when I’m walking, someone is on the same side of the side walk as me, so I move to the other side. A few seconds later they move too. Sometimes when I move back, they do too. They are looking a head and see what I am doing. Do people do this on purpose?