Poll: When walking down a path and someone is coming the opposite way you...

[moretimethansense]

I tend to get to the side of the path, but having grown up watching professional wrestling in the 1980s I always imagine myself doing the running clothesline.

Don't think I haven't been tempted.

 

[moretimethansense]

I lock eyes with them, and if they don't dive out of the way immediately, I put on my Viking helmet and charge, screaming at the top of my voice. If they do the same, then we ram into each other and have a furious fight to the death, the winner takes the other's helmet and continues on.

This is awsome. More things should be solved this way. Whatabout having portable cowcatchers for those crowded halls?

Agreed, the only problem is where would you get such a device?

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Damn ment to edit this in.

 

[TJF588]

I did this once when someone was coming up behind me. I could hear a bicyclist coming up, so I moved over...into his path. He landed on the grass, but I fell forward onto the sidewalk, skinning my hand (which smarted) and taking a chunk outta my elbow (where a scar can still be seen). Walked home the rest of the way, stinging hand pressured on/in my shirt.

 

[Michael Logan]

You think its bad when your walking? Its worse when you are running.

Almost everytime Im out running I meet people who are walking together towards me, taking up the entire path, refusing to move so that I can run past them. Which forces me to either stop and let them pass or try to run past them on the side.

Gah!
Even running straight at them doesn't get them to move!?

That's it I am so getting one of these:

Spoiler

Outta my fucking way!

I know right! You would think running at them would make them move out of the way, but no. They expect me to move! ME!

Yea this really bothers me, as you may be able to tell.

 

[3AM]

I move to the side and if I'm walking alongside someone one of us moves before or after the other so we go single-file. I'm amazed at people who don't move, expecting us to move and make way for them. All part of the "I'm-the-only-one-on-the-planet" syndrome, something that shows up just about everywhere.

 

[Trivun]

I tend to move a little bit if there's space then make the other person move as well, so we both shift across in opposite directions. Thing is, I'm not going to always be the one to move, why should I always have to bow down to other people? But at the same time, I was brought up to be polite and courteous to other people, so I move anyway. At least the way I do it, it's something of a compromise.

If there's no space, however, then it depends on who reaches the bottleneck first...

 

[Tilldanielnoah]

I get out of the way but every so often I get curious depending on the cut of the person and I dont budge. Usually ends in both of us doing the robot and going our seperate ways

 

[Rachel317]

Ugh, I hate the Dance. Especially when they SEE me walking to avoid them and they go in the same direction.

I. HATE. THIS. Why do people do it??? Surely the etiquette of the pavement would suggest you don't do this?! GAH!

But yeah, I get this all the time. Most people tend to walk on the side of the pavement they're used to driving on (well, I read that, anyways) but I hate it when people are walking right down the centre, you move, they keep on going. It's common courtesy.

It's the same in shops. Someone stands RIGHT in the middle of the aisle, and you have to dance around them. Why should you have to make an exception in your life for a stranger, when they're not prepared to show you the same courtesy??

I don't know how it is anywhere else, but in the UK, I think it's probably down to a lot of English people being thoroughly rude. I don't understand it, I've been brought up to help others, yadda yadda. Some people seem to have been dragged up.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I just slide past/through crowds with minimal loss of movement speed! Oh in order to avoid the Awkward Dance, pick a side early on AND DO NOT CHANGE! Then it's their own fucking fault if I have to barge through them