Why don't people move for others?

owlbethere · 10-05-2020 9:45pm #1

I was out walking today. While I was walking I was walking on the left hand side of the road. Up ahead there was someone walking up the road coming in my direction. I got closer and it was up to me to move over to the other side of the road.

I moved over to the other side of the road and continued on my walk, walking on the right hand side of the road. Up ahead there was a couple out walking coming in my direction. The same thing happened. It was up to me to move over to the left hand side of the road.

I continued my journey walking on the left side of the road, and I looked down into my phone to change the radio channel. I didn't find any music I liked and so I went over to YouTube to find some music. When I settled on a song, and looked up, there was another person walking into me.

Not one of them showed an ounce of consideration or even tried to step to the other side. I was only so sorry I didn't think about starting a fake coughing fit to see if they were brave enough to continue walking into me. If it happens again I will definitely be doing the fake coughing.

Quantum Erasure · 10-05-2020 9:59pm

"I was walking on the left hand side of the road."

that was your first mistake, you should have stayed your course after that though

punisher5112 · 10-05-2020 10:01pm

I'm seeing many that give space but unfortunately more now the opposite...

People are morons

Pauliedragon · 10-05-2020 10:02pm

I walk to the left and stay to the left. If someone wants to walk into me good luck to them. The park I walk on is clearly marked for people to walk to the left.

bilbot79 · 10-05-2020 10:03pm

I think they just aren't thinking about it

Giraffe Box · 10-05-2020 10:05pm

owlbethere wrote: »

I was out walking today. While I was walking I was walking on the left hand side of the road. Up ahead there was someone walking up the road coming in my direction. I got closer and it was up to me to move over to the other side of the road.

I moved over to the other side of the road and continued on my walk, walking on the right hand side of the road. Up ahead there was a couple out walking coming in my direction. The same thing happened. It was up to me to move over to the left hand side of the road.

I continued my journey walking on the left side of the road, and I looked down into my phone to change the radio channel. I didn't find any music I liked and so I went over to YouTube to find some music. When I settled on a song, and looked up, there was another person walking into me.

Not one of them showed an ounce of consideration or even tried to step to the other side. I was only so sorry I didn't think about starting a fake coughing fit to see if they were brave enough to continue walking into me. If it happens again I will definitely be doing the fake coughing.

Keep that story for when the pubs open up again. You'll have them all spellbound!

Pinch Flat · 10-05-2020 10:06pm

there's lot of People that are genuinely stupid and completely ignorant of how they virus is transmitted. This despite the media literally saturated with social distancing 24/7.

Lucy8080 · 10-05-2020 10:08pm

It's all about the dreaded polite dance. You move,they move, you've both realised, in your good mannerly way, you are still blocking each other. This dance continues until one of you gets pissed off enough to seem slightly rude. Then you have lost the good manners/polite game.

After that, your life is downhill guilt fuelled slide into the grave.

The Master. · 10-05-2020 10:17pm

owlbethere wrote: »

I was out walking today. While I was walking I was walking on the left hand side of the road. Up ahead there was someone walking up the road coming in my direction. I got closer and it was up to me to move over to the other side of the road.

I moved over to the other side of the road and continued on my walk, walking on the right hand side of the road. Up ahead there was a couple out walking coming in my direction. The same thing happened. It was up to me to move over to the left hand side of the road.

I continued my journey walking on the left side of the road, and I looked down into my phone to change the radio channel. I didn't find any music I liked and so I went over to YouTube to find some music. When I settled on a song, and looked up, there was another person walking into me.

Not one of them showed an ounce of consideration or even tried to step to the other side. I was only so sorry I didn't think about starting a fake coughing fit to see if they were brave enough to continue walking into me. If it happens again I will definitely be doing the fake coughing.

Did you have a white suit on?

B.A._Baracus · 10-05-2020 10:27pm

It's an attitude people develop op.
Am sure if I asked each of them as you passed by, and if I got a truthful answer, they'd all say "why should I move for him?"

kowloon · 10-05-2020 10:31pm

Never move, hold your course, keep going for them while looking them straight in the eyes, quickening your pace as you close in on them.

John_Rambo · 10-05-2020 10:42pm

kowloon wrote: »

Never move, hold your course, keep going for them while looking them straight in the eyes, quickening your pace as you close in on them.

I just move, alone or with the family. I have responsibilities and I'm not taking a risk for "pride" & I don't have a fragile ego. If someone want's to maintain their course, refuse to distance and be a dick let them away.

Not worth a childish school corridor shoulder brush.

cj maxx · 10-05-2020 10:45pm

kowloon wrote: »

Never move, hold your course, keep going for them while looking them straight in the eyes, quickening your pace as you close in on them.

And cough into your hand or sleeve while doing it

iamwhoiam · 10-05-2020 10:49pm

Pinch Flat wrote: »

there's lot of People that are genuinely stupid and completely ignorant of how they virus is transmitted. This despite the media literally saturated with social distancing 24/7.

It just never should have been said that you needed to be under 2 metres and less than 15 minutes in someones company
Where on earth did that 15 minutes come from . Some people still think you need to be with someone for 15 minutes to be infected

kowloon · 10-05-2020 10:50pm

cj maxx wrote: »

And cough into your hand or sleeve while doing it

It's not a game of chicken, it's a game of bat, and Batman never loses. Unless it's pangolin, they're armoured.

Tunsil · 10-05-2020 10:53pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

"I was walking on the left hand side of the road."

that was your first mistake, you should have stayed your course after that though

I have to agree with this. Same rules as driving and bike paths. Not so sure how staying the course proves any sort of point though. Presumably you're doing this because you're concerned about social distancing.

John_Rambo · 10-05-2020 10:58pm

My mother would be considered one of those people that doesn't move for others. She's old and has a life long illness for the last 15 years. She looks fine and walks at a reasonable pace but can't turn very well and finds it hard to stop once she gets going, her sight isn't great either.

Catching C-19 would end her life. She's had one walk since she stopped cocooning and won't be going out again as some younger, more able bodies people just held their line and wouldn't give way. She almost fell trying to avoid a guy around my age that did the whole "looked at her straight in the eye" and basically bullied her out of the way. Freaked her out and knocked her confidence.

i57dwun4yb1pt8 · 10-05-2020 11:03pm

^^ i hope a bat sh1ts on the c*nt that did that to her

Purple Mountain · 10-05-2020 11:04pm

You moved first.. It's called the 'chicken' game OP.

John_Rambo · 10-05-2020 11:12pm

Jamir Disgusting Puppetry wrote: »

^^ i hope a bat sh1ts on the c*nt that did that to her

He'll have his comeuppance.

10-05-2020 11:19pm

Maybe they are thinking the same thing about you.

I get it though, it annoys me

Esel · 10-05-2020 11:27pm

A few coughs into your elbow as they approach...

jaffa20 · 10-05-2020 11:36pm

I try move out of the way as much as possible. What i hate are the runners who come up behind you silently and ending up huffing and puffing while brushing up against you as they pass by. Idiots.

Leg End Reject · 10-05-2020 11:43pm

kowloon wrote: »

Firstly, I congratulate your Mother for remaining in her teens into old age. Secondly, fcuk that guy. I have relatives who really shouldn't be out, but when they are I would hope people had a bit of cop on and gave them a bit of room.

That a bit dickish, it clearly means she developed a condition 15 years ago that will persist for the rest of her life.

Very few of us will drop off in our sleep in old age without having prior health conditions. Only a minority are that lucky.

John_Rambo · 11-05-2020 12:17am

kowloon wrote: »

Firstly, I congratulate your Mother for remaining in her teens into old age

She has Parkinson's disease and a few other issues. It's with her for the rest of her life, she looks fine due to the meds but has serious mobility issues and came across someone like you with your "Never move, hold your course, keep going for them while looking them straight in the eyes, quickening your pace as you close in on them" attitude.

But sure, you're allright jack holding your course and looking people straight in the eye. Keep up the good work.

con___manx1 · 11-05-2020 12:21am

Why does crap like that bother you op just be the bigger person and move away from the ignorent ****in idiots. I cross the road to get away sometimes from groups of them.

Atlantic Dawn · 11-05-2020 12:29am

It's Ireland, always travel left and expect all people to follow this, I never alter course when on the left.

tscul32 · 11-05-2020 12:35am

My husband was out walking with the 14year old and had to keep telling him to move when people were coming. He asked "why do I have to move, why don't they?" But then, he's a teenager...

He was told to cop on.

i57dwun4yb1pt8 · 11-05-2020 8:34am

if you start fake coughing about 4 meters away they will move fairly rapid
i have a relation with a nasty cough they have had for over 40 years ,
when we are out , people nearly ****e themselves to get away .

i would just stop dead and look at my phone as well, then they have no choice but to go around .

BrianD3 · 11-05-2020 9:27am

Happens all the time, Covid-19 or not. It's especially annoying when those walking side by side won't make room for oncoming traffic lest it disrupts their very important conversation.

Prime example - 45 seconds into this, two bimbos who won't make room/fall into line. Several other examples in the video also, blocking the path, bad etiquette, not looking where you're going, failing to give way (motorists)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74

antodeco · 11-05-2020 9:31am

People are morons that's all. Got the lift in my apartment block last week. Basement to 3rd floor. It stops on the ground floor and in walks a woman. Surprised to see someone in there. These lifts are small by the way. She goes 1 floor and gets out. Seriously. Take the stairs or wait. I've made the decision to take the stairs everytime now. Healthier for me and it keeps me out of the way of the numpties

If I'm walking along and there's a couple who don't seem to be moving, I just stop dead in the path, on my side I was walking. Always confuses them and they have to move.

Feisar · 11-05-2020 9:42am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

It's Ireland, always travel left and expect all people to follow this, I never alter course when on the left.

I thought it was drive/cycle on the left, walk on the right?

Church on Tuesday · 11-05-2020 9:44am

kowloon wrote: »

Never move, hold your course, keep going for them while looking them straight in the eyes, quickening your pace as you close in on them.

Helps if you have a bit of a scowl on ya too.

Feisar · 11-05-2020 9:56am

Lack of manners and a lack of consequences in the modern world leads to this sullen "why should I move" types.

Same clowns would shíte themselves in a tight spot.

i57dwun4yb1pt8 · 11-05-2020 10:14am

place i work in, people take the lift to the work gym in the morning , from basement to two floors up on ground .

BobMc · 11-05-2020 10:30am

but in all seriousness if you cant manage the full 2m and have to pass on coming walking traffic at say 1metre due to the road or space, how long does it take to pass each other and open up the 2m distance again 5 seconds how big is the risk

negligible imo

Mrs OBumble · 11-05-2020 10:37am

Feisar wrote: »

I thought it was drive/cycle on the left, walk on the right?

Only if there's no footpath.

If there is footpath you're better off to walk on the left. That way anyone coming towards you can see what cars are coming so can choose when to step into the roadway.

punisher5112 · 11-05-2020 10:42am

antodeco wrote: »

People are morons that's all. Got the lift in my apartment block last week. Basement to 3rd floor. It stops on the ground floor and in walks a woman. Surprised to see someone in there. These lifts are small by the way. She goes 1 floor and gets out. Seriously. Take the stairs or wait. I've made the decision to take the stairs everytime now. Healthier for me and it keeps me out of the way of the numpties

If I'm walking along and there's a couple who don't seem to be moving, I just stop dead in the path, on my side I was walking. Always confuses them and they have to move.

Get onto the lift, stand right up to the door and don't move, simple nobody can get on.....

kowloon · 11-05-2020 11:13am

John_Rambo wrote: »

She has Parkinson's disease and a few other issues. It's with her for the rest of her life, she looks fine due to the meds but has serious mobility issues and came across someone like you with your "Never move, hold your course, keep going for them while looking them straight in the eyes, quickening your pace as you close in on them" attitude.

But sure, you're allright jack holding your course and looking people straight in the eye. Keep up the good work.

Apologies, no offence intended. I haven't walked into anyone as I haven't been out since this all started.

Leg End Reject wrote: »

That a bit dickish, it clearly means she developed a condition 15 years ago that will persist for the rest of her life.

Very few of us will drop off in our sleep in old age without having prior health conditions. Only a minority are that lucky.

I understand that, didn't mean for it to sound dickish. I have a long term illness myself.

Deebles McBeebles · 11-05-2020 11:18am

Never thought I'd see the day when walking on the road is actually safer.

I've come across a few of these people. 2 women in particular irked me. Walking side by side, taking up the entire path, not even thinking about moving to one side. Some people are very good about keeping distance but then there are always stupid c*nts.

Feisar · 11-05-2020 11:27am

antodeco wrote: »

People are morons that's all. Got the lift in my apartment block last week. Basement to 3rd floor. It stops on the ground floor and in walks a woman. Surprised to see someone in there. These lifts are small by the way. She goes 1 floor and gets out. Seriously. Take the stairs or wait. I've made the decision to take the stairs everytime now. Healthier for me and it keeps me out of the way of the numpties

If I'm walking along and there's a couple who don't seem to be moving, I just stop dead in the path, on my side I was walking. Always confuses them and they have to move.

People react funnily when someone does the unexpected. It's like the coding isn't there to fulfill the command prompt. In filling stations the staff seem to be programmed to say "Cappuccino/Latte" when one goes to the till with a coffee. I just say "no" and I get this blank expression in return. They don't seem to know where to go from there.

cj maxx · 11-05-2020 11:41am

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Only if there's no footpath.

If there is footpath you're better off to walk on the left. That way anyone coming towards you can see what cars are coming so can choose when to step into the roadway.

No . You're supposed to walk on the right, facing the on coming traffic so that even an a windy day when you can't hear, you can see the traffic on your side.
Not walk on the left to get mowed out from behind. Thats what we were taught for country roads. Cross the road if necessary to stay on the outside of corners.
Makes sense and I thought everyone knows that.
Oops didn't see the bit regarding footpaths

munstergirl · 11-05-2020 11:57am

Noticed in the last week a lot more women walking in groups or pairs and some of them won't move out of the way for anyone or even get in single file.

I was walking behind (at a distance) 2 women last week and noticed a woman pushing a pram coming towards us. I moved to opposite side of road, the two women walked passed the woman pushing the pram not moving sideways or single file, The woman pushing the pram was near a wall so couldn't move away.

I go walking everyday and always try avoid everyone. It really isn't hard.

antodeco · 11-05-2020 12:32pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

Get onto the lift, stand right up to the door and don't move, simple nobody can get on.....

I also find if you have your pants down around your ankles and are going hell for leather on yourself, they tend not to want to get in anyway

punisher5112 · 11-05-2020 12:52pm

antodeco wrote: »

I also find if you have your pants down around your ankles and are going hell for leather on yourself, they tend not to want to get in anyway

Well.....

antodeco · 11-05-2020 1:22pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

Well.....

If you're trying to join me, try and keep the 2m distance, from tip to tip at least

the dark phantom · 11-05-2020 1:25pm

This is why we have shoulders.

Edgware · 11-05-2020 6:02pm

A dead man never fell out a window

Why don't people move for others?

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