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I hate people who walk slower than me..

  • 22-07-2009 10:07PM
    #1
    sexmag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭


    Name says it all,im fed up of it now..
    Everyday im walking on the street there is always somebody that i end up getting stuck behind whos walking slower than me and of course there is no way to get past them because theres people just as slow as them walking in the opposite direction it does my head in,not a major issue of course just a annoince,the worst is when your turning corners...

    Any thoughts or anyone else experience this???
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  • #2
    Tomebagel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭Tomebagel


    Ditch your zimmer-frame.


  • #3
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Maybe they have a foot injury, did you not think of that?

    If you walk very fast whilst damaging your feet thru wrecklessness or trip over a bump in the footpath, you never know you might end up like them!


  • #4
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Papa don't preach...........


  • #5
    InkSlinger67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭InkSlinger67


    Attach a cow catcher to your trouser belt to avoid bumping into people from now on.

    It's either that or regularly visit a trained mental health professional to tolerate slow walking people


  • #6
    Schism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    Yes, just this evening actually. Was stuck behind a woman with a handful of shopping walking rather slowly.

    Being the fine gent that I am I did the right thing though. Knocked her over and walked on her back crushing her spine along with her precious fairy liquid and parsnips.


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  • #7
    sexmag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭sexmag


    Im not complaining about people walking faster then me,its the other way around so your smart comment has no merit sir


  • #8
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Get a flashing blue light for your head and a nee-naa ringtone for you phone. Problem solved.


  • #9
    useful_contacts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭useful_contacts


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055513303


  • #10
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Yes ive a thought.

    Learn to be a little more tolerant of other people.

    Perhaps the person in front of you has leg AIDS.


  • #11
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,646 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    I hate people who walk fast behind me:D

    Seriously though it does get annoying, especially when it's an old person, or even worse and old person with a hump.


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  • #12
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I am a quick walker and I'm sick of getting loud tuts or sighs when I pass the slow pokes! :mad: Shut up or get out of my way!


  • #13
    Maddison
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Maddison


    Then you walk on the back of their shoes & they turn around and throw the evil eye:rolleyes:


  • #14
    jdivision
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    But if everybody walked faster than you then they'd all bitch about you. Are you ready for the world to hate you?


  • #15
    Schism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    Domo230 wrote: »
    There are a certain group of student tourists who come over here every year and piss me off by walking incredibly slow and cloggin up the path.

    Hint the country there from rhymes with rain.

    France right? :confused:


  • #16
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,817 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    sexmag wrote: »
    Name says it all,im fed up of it now..
    Everyday im walking on the street there is always somebody that i end up getting stuck behind whos walking slower than me and of course there is no way to get past them because theres people just as slow as them walking in the opposite direction it does my head in,not a major issue of course just a annoince,the worst is when your turning corners...

    Any thoughts or anyone else experience this???

    I call them yaks. They're like those stupid animals that stand around all day. I'd love to shove by them or bull through them in an ideal world


  • #17
    JW91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭JW91


    It sounds like I wouldn't be very popular with some of you because I am possibly the slowest walker ever.

    I kind of walk in a very aimless and laid back fashion and I'm very slow.

    As an example: I have a friend (who like me also walks very slow) and one day the two of us were in town and we were walking to a shop. The shop was maybe 200 yards ahead of us and the street was very quiet. We saw two more people about 100 yards behind us on the same street. they were walking in the same direction as us. Just before we reached the shop the two people behind us overtook us. That's how slow we were! They covered 300 yards in the time it took us to cover 200 yards!

    And it's not as if I walk slow because I have small, stumpy legs. I'm 6'4"!! I just walk in a very casual, unrushed kind of a way.

    So I'm sorry if we slow walkers annoy you but some of us just like to live life at a slower and more chilled out pace


  • #18
    sexmag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭sexmag


    JW91 wrote: »
    It sounds like I wouldn't be very popular with some of you because I am possibly the slowest walker ever.

    I kind of walk in a very aimless and laid back fashion and I'm very slow.

    As an example: I have a friend (who like me also walks very slow) and one day the two of us were in town and we were walking to a shop. The shop was maybe 200 yards ahead of us and the street was very quiet. We saw two more people about 100 yards behind us on the same street. they were walking in the same direction as us. Just before we reached the shop the two people behind us overtook us. That's how slow we were! They covered 300 yards in the time it took us to cover 200 yards!

    And it's not as if I walk slow because I have small, stumpy legs. I'm 6'4"!! I just walk in a very casual, unrushed kind of a way.

    So I'm sorry if we slow walkers annoy you but some of us just like to live life at a slower and more chilled out pace


    Its a fast times we are living in,either pick up the pace or get the hell outa the way grandpa:)


  • #19
    JW91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭JW91


    sexmag wrote: »
    Its a fast times we are living in,either pick up the pace or get the hell outa the way grandpa:)


    I'm only 18!!

    I just walk slowly. Anyway with this recession I'd say there will be a lot more people with enough time on their hands to walk around slowly!


  • #20
    K4t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    If the footpaths are crowded just walk on the side of the road. Problem solved. Stop whining about things which can easily be solved ffs.


  • #21
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I love the way Obese people try to WOBBLE walk accross the road, only thing funnier is see them try to run when I aim the car at 'em.

    .


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  • #22
    pleasant Co.
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 7,594 Mod ✭✭✭✭pleasant Co.


    I truly dislike the kinds of people that walk so slow that when they stop right in front of you there is no indication it's going to happen - because they're dawdling along - or when you try to overtake them they decide that that's exactly when they're going to change direction too. My bad partially, but it gets real annoying when you've got a nice rhythm going to your pace.

    Ack, then again, if that's one of my biggest complaints then i'm happy out really.


  • #23
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    I think its funny watching people rush around the place..... why you increase you heart rate and get your self stressed and look like a Muppet?


  • #24
    Caco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Caco


    I hate this, especially people who walk in groups and take up the whole path!

    Another thing that bugs me is when someone is walking faster than you behind you so you walk to the side of the path so they've plenty of room to pass... but then they tailgate you all the way down the road!!!


  • #25
    Venom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    Chaya Clean Ramp wrote: »
    I love the way Obese people try to WOBBLE walk accross the road, only thing funnier is see them try to run when I aim the car at 'em.

    .

    Seen a few tubbies on motor-scooters pootling around Dublin streets lately. Ham beasts walking is so 2008 :)

    As for the OP yeah slow walking really bug me as well. Footpaths should be like motorways imho, slowpokes on one end and faster walkers on the other.


  • #26
    JW91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭JW91


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    I think its funny watching people rush around the place..... why you increase you heart rate and get your self stressed and look like a Muppet?

    Exactly! Just slow down and chill out people!

    remenber that ad that said turtles live for like 10000 years because they move so slowly?
    I'm not sure if that's true but if it is then I expect to live to about 200 with my walking pace


  • #27
    Adamcp898
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    Yes! Especially at busy times like Christmas, just because you want to stroll doesn't mean everybody else has to do


  • #28
    JW91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭JW91


    I can stroll around if I want.
    It doesn't bother me what pace you want to walk at. There's no law saying you have to walk at a certain pace


  • #29
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Maddison wrote: »
    Then you walk on the back of their shoes & they turn around and throw the evil eye:rolleyes:
    I call that the "death stare". I was in a car park recently and reversing into a parking space as I always do, as I stopped to reverse there was a car in the line in front about reverse out of their space. They had to wait until I parked first as they reversed out both occupants craned their necks around to give me the "death stare". What the fcuk was their problem?


  • #30
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Venom wrote: »
    . Footpaths should be like motorways imho, slowpokes on one end and faster walkers on the other.


    And ugly buuurds down the centre of the road.

    .


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  • #31
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,322 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Domo230 wrote: »
    There are a certain group of student tourists who come over here every year and piss me off by walking incredibly slow and cloggin up the path.

    Hint the country there from rhymes with rain.

    Ive always found Bahrain people to walk at a steady speed to be fair to them


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