'Oh would you just walk your f*cking legs please'

We need pedestrian Fast Lanes. Then we can change the name of them to Overtaking Lanes and ridicule the lane hoggers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWnOsHX69U

I just want to walk at a reasonable pace without having to slam into idiots who just stop in the middle of a pavement.

Just MOVE to the side if you're going to do that.

Don't walk 3 a breast and when I approach and then expect my to go around. Single file your a***s! You're the people taking up the whole pavement.

Obnoxiously big prams. I appreciate you're a mother out trying to get some errands done but is there any need for that space machine of a thing? Just invaraiably makes it more effort to get into shops, transport, cafes etc.

Then there is just the slow walker in situations where walking fast and nimbley is the only way. Such as a high street. Just accept if you want to go for a stroll then go somewhere for a stroll. This is city center, and if everyone walked at a slow pace then no one would get anywhere. The place is the epitome of fast pace and busy living, get with the damn programme.

Not asking for everyone to be going 100 miles an hour. Mostly I'm fine with people walking slowly or ambling along. Just be aware that it's not all the time.

Hammer89 wrote: »

I must've had this thought about, hmm, 750 times in Town earlier. Slow c*nts.

I don't mean mentally slow - some might've been because it was Henry St - but slow physically. They walked like they had sh*t their pants - and some might've, because it was Henry St.

They walked like they were walking to their execution. They walked like how you walk in Musical Chairs when there's only two of you left. They walked like people who had no real idea where they were walking to.

They walked with very little regard for the walkers behind them, the people like me, who did know where they were going and wanted to get there before the 24th.

Inconsiderate clowns.

It's almost as if they just don't prioritise you and your wants over their own.

Crazy!

Its like that Billy Connolly story from the seventies where he was trying to get by an old woman, but he slips and falls. The old woman turns around and says to him, what are ye doing on the ground sonny? To which he replies, I was just trying to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.

Hammer89 wrote: »

They shouldn't prioritise my wants over theirs. What they should do, and what any decent human being would do, is consider other people, not just me.

I consider other people all the time, because I'm great and deserve both parachutes. It was very windy at the bus stop yesterday, but I wanted a smoke. What do I do? I walk to the left of the shelter to ensure that my exhalations aren't blown into the faces of the innocent people to the right of me.

That's an example of common decency that I was denied later in the day.

I feel your hurt

There's nothing wrong with walking slow. As long as you're aware other people exist.

People who seem to want to barge through everyone on the street - you know what they're going to do when they get to their destination? Fuck all.

I have an outstanding intolerance for people who show complete disregard for others in society when out in public. Drives me up the wall. Lacking basic cop-on seems to be an ever growing issue. The OP point is understandable and is relatable but is simply subjective. I would be the same, letting those who walk slow in zone where people walk to and from places that they need to get to or would prefer getting to in a decent time frame. But populated places like Mary street, this is to be expected especially around the x mas period. I use to get annoyed at this and then I started to see it as pointless and pathetic, but not as much anymore. if i need to get some place, Ill choose an alternative route to avoid certain areas, ifs its longer, even better, I can walk until I cave in. I would not get annoyed at the elders, that was one thing that was a no no.

Motorists who park up on paths to "quickly" pop in somewhere while blocking Parents and their children from passing safely together or a parent with a pram- so they can be lazy rather than finding suitable parking. Same with people on bikes cycling on paths- not slowing down/stopping or dismounting when there is next to no room in this case I do not move. two or more people together who walk on paths making no room for on coming pedestrians to pass, I simply walk right through them or stop as they pass. In tesco etc when people tend to block up the isles having a chat with both their trolleys touch at the top int he middle of the isle, I simply move their trolley while they look on with their gobs wide open. People in general who stop mid lane between isles , trolley to side blocking people while they think of where to go next.

The fact of the matter is that people a generally ignorant to their own indecency or lack of manners displayed or shown to others in public. this is just the human condition. Innocuously self centred. Thats including me.