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To all the slow moving people in the pedway between scotia square and barrington place mall, Move, pick up the pace or fucking move….its like frogger…if your slow….I am gonna blow past you, can’t stand it!! Its not place for conversation. Next time you don’t move I might have to move you.
—QueentofHearts
This article appears in Dec 10-16, 2009.
60 Comments
i feel for you, slow moving people make me crazy too.
but you might want to rethink what time in the morning you’re hitting the caffeine.
Slow people need to realize that everyone else doesn’t live in their world. This goes for dumb asses who sit in the overtake lane on the highway too. It comes down to being selfish and ignorant.
so let me get this straight… I’m selfish and ignorant for not noticing or assisting you with your poor time management skills?!? Huh? Does this even make sense? Since when does poor planning on your part become an emergency to be managed by the general public? Slow the fuck down, the general public won’t be nearly as offensive to you as you seem to like to think.
Frogger …..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
GO ATARI!!!
Its not poor time management; sometimes people might be running late ; everyone has their own pace. If you want to putter along ; fine, but be considerate enough to make way for those people whose drum beats a little faster. Everyone needs to slow down now and then, and for some people slow is top speed. Maybe its a bum leg or maybe they are just slow .
A little consideration would help most of us get where we needed to go with a bit less stress
The pedway is for lazy people.
My God, this society is full of spoiled, self-entitled individuals who seem to think their pace is the only pace, even if it’s on the road to fucking nowhere. I have problems walking, can’t walk fast as I used to – is that my goddamn fault?? If I had a Segway, I’d fucking run you down 2,398 times, you silly arsepick.
I love the hampster trail…. though OP neglected to mention that it always seems to be 5 slow people all walking side by side so you can’t get around. if everyone walked single file, the world would be a little more tolerable place.
People in Halifax just walk slow. I am always trying to get around slow people and I’m never in a rush to do anything.
that was my point …people stretched out walking slow…move over….i have great time managment…i like to walk fast…and i get that people have diffent walking speeds…just be considerate ..thats all!!
Finally. Kay admits she’s selfish and ignorant. Has it ocurred to you Kay that the OP is just walking normal pace (which maybe faster than others) and the people around him/her walking slow can be a nuisance to navigate around.
And what does time management skills and poor planning have to do with just walking?
Everyone bitching about the slow walkers but it works both ways. If you’re walking slower then everyone, move to the side, if you’re walking fast, say excuse me and politely go around the slow walkers. People who walk slowly right in the middle and people who walk fast. And come up behind you huffing and then plow their way through are all inconsiderate assholes.
Virgomom you beat me to it !
What’s wrong with politely excusing yourself ?
Too much Upper Canada snob in you ?
At 6’1 240+ pounds I’m not easily pushed out of the way, but I am very reasonable & will be glad to move to one side, bum leg & all !
actually I’m usually at one side or the other… I don’t need to move right down the middle of a lane ! Must be from all the years of driving my vehicle to one side or the other of the middle of the road 🙂
Let’s get City Council to make a by-law to force people to walk at a certain speed or get ticketed?
Good bitch.
Keep up people…take your cues from the animal kingdom you dumb naked apes, keep up with the herd or get picked off.
This is why there is over 1,000,000 in the FB group
“I secretly want to punch slow moving people in the back of the head”
Stay to the right unless passing, stupid.
Same goes for drivers. Just because it says 50km/hr doesn’t mean your car is going to blow up if you hit that speed. PRESS ON THE PEDAL! Stop holding the rest of us up.
yeah, the bus will actually blow up if it goes UNDER 50 miles/hour so punch it or you won’t make the jump.
actually, I wouldn’t liken this to driving…
if you go to pass someone, you’re likely not going to die in a tragic walking accident
and only very rarely do people die of excessive speed while walking.
(heart attack while jogging maybe?)
Hmm, think I’ll go for a walk on my break.Through the pedway. I’ll be the one walking really slow down the middle. Why? Because I like pissing off self entitled people who think the world should bow to their speed of doing things.
Geez, people, get a grip. Everyone walks at different paces, and sometimes you’re in the way, you probably don’t even realize it at the time. I actually walk pretty fast, but oddly enough, I don’t expect others to do the same, and I just simply bide my time til I can pass them. It doesn’t put my nose out of joint to slow down for a minute.
I get stuck behind slow people all the time but it doesn’t really bother me. What bothers me is people who shove past walking so fast they nearly topple other pedestrians over.
I saw one guy cut in-between this elderly couple so close and fast that they dropped some of the shopping bags they were carrying and the elderly mans’ scarf got caught on the fast walking guy and nearly choked him before it came loose. Fast walking guy looked back and just kept on going, asshole. Me and two other passers by help them pick up their parcels, some of which had gotten really dirty. Fucking asshole.
As a fast walker, slow people who take up the whole right-of-way tick me off too. I’m naturally a Point A to Point B, somewhat impatient kind of guy and have longish legs plus big feet so I can’t help but to walk fast. Nothing wrong with moving off to the side for us faster walkers, is there? Alternatively, I don’t mind going around slower walkers if there is room to do so, as well. It has garnered me some dirty looks though, since some people think it’s rude I guess (mainly older people). Ahh the Maritimes!
It’s about mutual understanding and respect I believe. Together, in this beautiful world we live in, both slow walkers and fast walkers can live in harmony together as one.
Fizz, that wasn’t me! I promise!
Get a freakin’ horn, you speed demons. If someone’s moving at a pace that doesn’t meet with your own high standards, let them know that you’re about to pass them.
There’s this little phrase… “Excuse me”… you may have heard of it? Try using it then walking past. If that doesn’t work (because some slow moving people are just as self absorbed as you speed freaks are), then be a little more aggresive.
But I wouldn’t suggest moving the slow walkers yourself, Queenie, because some of those slow movers just might surprise you with how fast they can kick your butt if you touch them.
My disabled Hub-Unit (who uses a cane and walks very slow because of a tumor on his spine) has fallen to the floor at least three times in the last year at malls because of fucking a-holes in a hurry, not giving a fuck who they push down. Did one stop to help him up? No, they just rushed away to get where they were going .000333 seconds sooner.
My dad’s a slow mover too because of severe arthritis in his ankle. It CAN be frustrating to go anywhere with him, but it’s not his fault he can’t move very fast.
Also: I’m a fast walker, but I have short little legs. I’m short, plus long waisted so my legs are shorter than average for my height, so when I walk, i walk at the same pace as some of the faster walkers, but my stride isn’t as large and I always fall behind, thus, making me APPEAR to be a slow walker. And I’m sure I’m not the only one with this problem.
Some slow walkers are just inconsiderate assholes, but some really can’t help it.
RaphEmer, this horn you speak of has already been invented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ_j0XeJ_tU…
Know what drove me nuts? Being in a humid, warm-climate country! Sure the weather’s nice, but MAN does the heat ever slooowwwww people doooowwwwwnnn.
Short little legs and long waisted? Is this you?
http://resistretail.files.wordpress.com/20…
yes,but queeny,did you ever consider that these people are heading back to work,you know,that sometimes boring fucking place you have to be.or just maybe,you got your texting fingers working to hard and got your special someone pissed off at you,for being such a fucking shit head?
hey tdf,maybe you and i should walk shouldr to shoulder thru there sometime,and give the assholes a real fucking headache,get it.
That’s it, qpmzwonxeibcruv! If people used that, then people would know to get the hell out of the way! 🙂
and for the record, i don’t push people down….although some should be …..
I just go alone in the pedways so I don’t hold anyone up or have anybody doing the same to me. My only beef is when a herd of cows all walk shoulder to shoulder and nobody can get passed them.
What’s worse is when they know someone wants/needs to get by them and they just continue walking ever so slowly without moving aside.
I bet this type of thing doesn’t happen in Calgary or even Antigonish!
LOL, qpmzwonxeibcruv!
Life Sucks-
I’ve got a better idea. Instead of shoulder to shoulder, we’ll each criss cross back and forth through the pedway slow enough to make it hard to pass, but speed up if anyone does attempt to get by. It’ll mess with their heads.
I do argee alot of people are slow – thats not the problem . its more like the slow 5 abreast taking up the whole pedway and won’t move over abit . It’s not the slow people or the fast people – neither one – it’s that people have to learn that others need to get by and stop having your group coversations in the middle of pedways and then look at people going by like we interupted your tea party . Go two abreast and be considerate – theres all kinds of speeds people walk – get used to it and move aside. Phhhhht time management – not – people move as they move .
Ps @ fat – no in calgary its a mass herd and they all move fast – i call it playing dumptruck with no brakes . If you move slow – you’ll get swallowed by the crowd around calgary – especially on the ctrain platforms . But actually outside that mass – people are pretty good about letting around eachother – it moves quite well except in pedestrian rush hour – each man for themselves.
Calgary has one of the largest ped-ways anywhere. Almost the entirety of the downtown core is connected. And for once I agree with Fat. Mark the occasion.
I refuse to commit to being a slow walker or a fast walker. I’m not really either. My walking speed is dictated by the weather, and whether or not I’m late. But being conscious of the people around you is just common sense, and courtesy.
It’s called the +15 and its great in the winter !
I also said Antigonish….
I got stuck behind a slow walker the other day. When I tried to pass her, she kept walking slow, preventing me from doing so. Finally, she turned around. It was my girlfriend wearing a huge new winter coat lol.
But tell me this…weren’t you a little cranky until you saw it was your girlfriend? :0)
tdf,pick the day and time,make sure it is one of the busiest days and hours.
Isn’t up to each of us to decide how fast we walk. Is this your biggest problem and worthy of a bitch?
Anything is open for bitching around here Mr. Maps, even neighborhood pace peds.
two words… “excuse me”… turns heads every time
seems I am not the only one that feels this way….
people are slow… usually in more ways than one.
6 words = move douchehat you in my way
hog, you epitomize everything I hate about people, and the people of this town in particular. Congrats
congrats excepted I see my job is done !!! PEEEEEEEEEEEEERFECT
Try to move me, see what happens.
Probably nothing – but i’ll allow you your internet tough guy status.
You also play Internet tough guy, TWH.
I might but i also WILL do what I say. And i don’t pick people out i let them pick themselves out – and do what the situation calls for. Guess that makes me a real person? Probably.
Wasn’t arguing with you but pointing out an observation. Then again I like to say (online) that I like farting in public … and I do live up to it.
Nothing better than letting a silent killer creep out in a wealthy/snobby store or a trumpet ripper out in a drug store =D
HAHA NGF nice one – thou i prefer SBD’s on a crowded bus LOL
Especially when walking by people. They can all sit there and try figuring out who dunn it!
hee hee I always blast a loud one and stare at the closest old person and ask if their ok !!!
Fever, the pedways are usually the long way around. I work at the CIBC building and it’s a lot quicker to get to Scotia Square outside then it is through the pedways. So technically, by walking through the pedways, I am getting more exercise. Anyway, I have no problems with slow walkers, I just wait for an opportunity to pass, no big deal. My worse pet peeve are the people who walk in groups of 3 or 4 and the outside person refuses to get out of the way of people coming the opposite direction. A shoulder to shoulder hit is usually the best way to get the point across to these asshats.
p.s. i found a whole group of slow people …they live at the mall…..drooling zombie like ….