To The Slow Walkers of the World...

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  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    decides2dream wrote:
    gggrrrrrrrrrrrr...:mad:
    drive me mad!
    the slow-walkers and those who stop in entrances/exits....wtf?!
    just today, packed movie theatre exiting, and this senior woman stops dead in the exit, for no apparent reason./...continues to stand there, in everyone's way....had to scootch around her. wtf i say?! sheesh. i am a fast walker, and talker...and no, i do not pause at entrances, exits, escalators, etc...keep it movin' people. stop and smell the roses when no one is itchin' to get by you. :p
    Love this thread. We are both fast walkers and totally agree on all counts, although I have to say while on vacation I have been guilty (on occasion) of said offense. Not any more! :D
    "I'd rather be with an animal." "Those that can be trusted can change their mind." "The in between is mine." "If I don't lose control, explore and not explode, a preternatural other plane with the power to maintain." "Yeh this is living." "Life is what you make it."
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=3OHD6OI5Ubs

    Wait for the esclator bit. Its the same on ski hills, you can never time it when they're going back and fourth.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • releaselauren
    releaselauren Posts: 384
    mookie9999 wrote:
    I've got two words for you:


    STRAIGHT LINE!!!!

    Look into it!

    That is all

    100% agree.

    I've always been a fast walker. I can't stand to get stuck behind the slo-mos and while I have never physically pushed someone out of the way....with the exception of the PJ/U2 concert when the people in front of me were moving s l o w as I heard the PJ intro begin....I had to squeeze my way a bit forcefully down the aisle to my seat...but I digress.....

    stay to the side slow pokes and get out of my way!
    "you shall be released" ~ EV
  • Blanche
    Blanche Posts: 247
    I'm relieved to know it's an international phenomenon.

    I am dismayed, however, to learn that NYC has become a slow walker town. :mad:

    I wonder if they still have that fast walker lane in London.
  • tooferz
    tooferz Posts: 135
    i am one of those slow walkers (health reasons n super short legs) but even i get annoyed by the blue hairs n emos just hangin out. c'mon people...if a disabled almost old lady is walking faster than you...MOVE! DRINK SOME AMP! DO A LINE! do something but get out of my freaking way! n don't give me a dirty look when i push past you k?
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    JaneNY wrote:
    Ha! I knew your were from NY from the first post! Its annoying in upstate too.

    The worst part is I'm not talking about tourists (although they do suck) or old people (they can't help being slow). I can spot tourists easily by their deer in the headlights look or their xtra large map that they're using to locate the WTC site because the signs all over the street pointing them there just aren't obvious enough and plan accordingly to manuever around them. I'm talking about this young punk kids (mind you I'm only in my 20's) that are in their late teens-early twenties that walk in packs and are this close to getting a size 12 up their ass if they don't start moving faster. To the fast walkers on here who agree Happy Holidays! :D
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    i fucking HATE slow walkers!!

    so i graduated last week...

    my family tells me i was fastest collecting my degree, yeeeeeh go me :o
    wah
  • qwerty1
    qwerty1 Posts: 142
    Great thread!

    I agree with all above comments.

    And on Escelators, PLEASE stand on the right, and walk on the left!!!!
    They do this well in Britain, N. America not so much.
    This sidewalk is for regular walking, not for fancy walking!
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    illegal_pants wrote:
    i fucking HATE slow walkers!!

    so i graduated last week...

    my family tells me i was fastest collecting my degree, yeeeeeh go me :o

    Keep up the good work!!!
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • xscorcho
    xscorcho Posts: 409
    i'm definately a slow walker... although i know to keep to the right so people can pass me (esp in fast paced places like london... its crazy there!!)
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Keep up the good work!!!

    thankyou, i hope i didn't let the team down :D
    wah
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    YUP! There it is all 4 pages of it! The reason I rarely leave the house anymore! Great folks! Obviously not being too old, or too young or visibly disabled gives me no excuse. So me and my slow, careful walking are gonna stay home. Wouldn't want to have to waste precious energy on pushy folk in a hurry anyway.:(
    I guess I'll stop assuming that people really are goodwilled and next time someone darts past me throwing off my balance maybe I should just keel off and hit them with the stick!
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    Jeanie wrote:
    YUP! There it is all 4 pages of it! The reason I rarely leave the house anymore! Great folks! Obviously not being too old, or too young or visibly disabled gives me no excuse. So me and my slow, careful walking are gonna stay home. Wouldn't want to have to waste precious energy on pushy folk in a hurry anyway.:(
    I guess I'll stop assuming that people really are goodwilled and next time someone darts past me throwing off my balance maybe I should just keel off and hit them with the stick!

    Are you both too old and too young?!? Anyways if you go back to when I started this thread I asked, no requested, that slow walkers learn to walk in a straight line. I don't expect you to stay home, just don't roam the sidewalk like a drunk driver navigates the road, all over the place and being in everyones way. If you are disabled or old I don't expect you to walk fast. But young kids that walk in packs need to get some of your stick action more than me!
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    xscorcho wrote:
    i'm definately a slow walker... although i know to keep to the right so people can pass me (esp in fast paced places like london... its crazy there!!)

    Bless You! That is all we ask
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • The Champ
    The Champ Posts: 4,063
    Vedd Hedd wrote:
    Good call. And if you are slow walker, walking with OTHER slow walkers, you cant walk 5 people side by side so nobody can pass......

    get to the right side.

    I deal with this shit in the city every day. I agree, the side by side nonsense is a bunch of bull. Sometimes I walk along the street to pass them and make sure they notice. When ahead, I turn around and give them a big 'fuck you' grin as I walk on by..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Are you both too old and too young?!? Anyways if you go back to when I started this thread I asked, no requested, that slow walkers learn to walk in a straight line. I don't expect you to stay home, just don't roam the sidewalk like a drunk driver navigates the road, all over the place and being in everyones way. If you are disabled or old I don't expect you to walk fast. But young kids that walk in packs need to get some of your stick action more than me!


    YUP!! GOT IT!! And the reason I'm cross with your comments is because when I'm tired I do weave like I'm drunk and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it and I get really sick and tired of having to adjust my life just because people like you are in such a bloody hurry! I'm sure you're not a completely insensitive prat and I'm all for walking fast if you are able but it'd be nice if you stopped assuming that people walk slow, or stagger or wander into your path just to piss you off!! I take the bloody stick in a pathetic attempt to stop people like you getting frustrated with my feeble attempts at walking and their pathetic assumptions that I'm drunk!!! All I'm saying is, by all means run if you must just don't make assumptions about people. The very bloody fact that some of us are walking at all is at the very least a miracle and at the very most probably the end result of endless rehabilitation!! SORRY if I sound cross but I am! This whole thread has really struck a nerve!!
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    Hey, if y'all have to constantly pass people on the sidewalk, that's your problem. Not everyone is able to walk fast.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    What annoys me is people who stop in front of Ticket barriers/turnstiles at train stations whilst dithering and fumbling for their tickets. Also people who stand still on escalators when they're moving DOWN?
    It's bad enough people creating bottlenecks at the bottom of escalators when they all rush to stand still on them. But when they're going down? I mean, how much effort is required to walk down a flight of stairs? Lazy fuckers!
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    Jeanie wrote:
    YUP!! GOT IT!! And the reason I'm cross with your comments is because when I'm tired I do weave like I'm drunk and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it and I get really sick and tired of having to adjust my life just because people like you are in such a bloody hurry! I'm sure you're not a completely insensitive prat and I'm all for walking fast if you are able but it'd be nice if you stopped assuming that people walk slow, or stagger or wander into your path just to piss you off!! I take the bloody stick in a pathetic attempt to stop people like you getting frustrated with my feeble attempts at walking and their pathetic assumptions that I'm drunk!!! All I'm saying is, by all means run if you must just don't make assumptions about people. The very bloody fact that some of us are walking at all is at the very least a miracle and at the very most probably the end result of endless rehabilitation!! SORRY if I sound cross but I am! This whole thread has really struck a nerve!!

    I can't speak for anyone else who has posted, but I feel that you are misunderstanding me. I don't feel that I am an insensitive prat at all. I'm quite sensitive to people who have difficulties walking. I am not referring to these people. I am talking about people all throughout NYC (and I would assume most major cities that are overcrowded) that walk slow, in groups, and do not care if you or anyone else has someplace to be, and theywalk and obstuct as needed. As I stated earlier, it's not the senior citizens nor the tourists, but rather these young punks that do what I described above. I'm sorry if you have taken these comments personally. They were not directed at you, unless you are able to walk without pain and still decide to take up the whole sidewalk, which it doesn't sound like you are. Even people who walk the street that are drunk are easy to get by. It's just this specific group that know you want to get by and still do whatever they can to stay in the way. You have a right to walk anyway you choose, as I have the right to pass you.
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • rearviewmiror
    rearviewmiror Posts: 894
    mookie9999 wrote:
    I've got two words for you:


    STRAIGHT LINE!!!!

    Look into it!

    That is all

    100% true. Boston is crowded with these people too. Also related are those that assume that their getting a seat is more important than those getting off the train, or their cousins those jerks who enter an elevator before looking to see if anyone is coming out.

    However the crown princes of walking are those a-holes who use GOLF umbrellas on city sidewalks. They deserve a special place in hell.
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