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

[moretimethansense]

I usually make an awesome side-slide.
could be with a bow if I'm feeling fancy

Ha!
That's how I move through crowded rooms, funny as hell to look at cause I'm about 6'2 and weigh nearly thirty stone yet I move throgh a crowded room like a high speed gymnast!
I'm suprised anyone else does it.

WOOH internet high five xD

It's awesome when me and my friend do this at the same time.
he goes to the left, I go right and watch people's faces while they walk through our arc of awesome.

You should try it out.

'Raises Hand to recieve IHF'
I wish I could but neither of my mates can do it,
One is such a clodhopper that despite being fairly skinny he walks with footsteps that are roughly three times as heavy as mine,
The other one should be good at this as he played football(english) but can't handle crowds to save himself.
Awsome Idea though.

 

[Bloodstain]

I always move out of the way. Why someone wouldn't, I cannot understand.

 

[moretimethansense]

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Im am usually a fairly polite person and as such I will almost always move out of the way. But as for people bumping into me it never happens. Im a big fucka and so I imagine look fairly intimidating.

The thing is I'm fairly big myself (6'2ish) and quite broad(both fat AND huge shoulders) But I'm just not intimidating(round chubby face, always wearing a fleece) oddly enough if they knew me they'd know that I'm a scary bastard when riled up.

I always move out of the way. Why someone wouldn't, I cannot understand.

Part of the reason I made this thread was to find out.

 

[Silver Patriot]

If there is one thing I learned in South Going School it is to never budge. That's my rule.

 

[Random berk]

I'm polite usually. But in extreme circumstances, walking straight through the middle is required.

Warning, this can cause fights if the people you walk through are of lesser intelligence, dressed in burberry, have their tracksuits tucked into their socks and are wearing white trainers.

Spoiler: like these guys

Ah yes, knackers. Of course, these guys would hurl abuse at you even if you were walking on the other side of the street.

 

[Lilani]

I only move if I'm on the wrong side of the sidewalk (being in the US, that is the left side). If I'm on the right side, then I will not give. I'll run smack into you before I give. The unspoken rule of sidewalks is you walk on the same side of the road you would drive on. If everybody does that, then there is no problem.

So let's say you want to walk with your friends side by side. I don't care! I'm on the right side, and I shouldn't have to drop off of the edge into the dirt just to legitimize your hogging of the sidewalk.

The only exception to that rule is if they are carrying a large load or are pushing something like a stroller or a cart. Then and only then will I step aside.

 

[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.

Edit* Person above me, you are so right! You should walk at the same side as you would drive on.

 

[Vohn_exel]

Gah, clicked on the wrong thing. I usually do what you did, I move to the right or left and give them room to move. However, I'm give them space but I don't give them all the space. They aren't any more special than I am. So, I give them space, and if they want to keep coming and try to take up the whole road, then they're just gonna have to bump into me.

 

[Cogwheel]

Person coming my way, you say? Claymore, dodge-roll to the left, take cover, hide, wait. Cackle.

Or, you know, get out of their way. Every time.

 

[moretimethansense]

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!

 

[kickyourass]

I step to one side so that the other person can pass, it's simply polite.

 

[MarlaminLTarmiko]

I get scared and cross to the entirely other side of the road if people are walking toward me.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I usually move to one side a bit. This allows the other person some room to get by, but they also have to move a bit to side as well or else we bump into each other. The path isn't yours or mine, so we both have to get out of the way a little. Or you could wipe out a knife, scare them into getting out of the way (not really).

Of course in my high school, the hallway was packed so problems with space would typically arise. Now most people stayed on their right (like the roads) so running into someone coming at you would only happen if you happened to both be using the "middle" lane; usually to get past the slow-ass motherfuckers who are clogging your side of hallway. That's what would always get me. I can understand talking with your friends on the way to class, no problem I would do it sometimes. I can also understand when you have several people as a group walking down the hallway, that happens. But do you need to clog your side of hallway by making a "wall" of people and then slowly meander down the hall? I moved through the hallways pretty quickly; due to my fast gait, long legs, and skill at maneuvering through crowds; but these people we still slower than everyone else. It was god damn annoying.

 

[TehCookie]

I usually take a half step to the side. If the other person moves, there's no problem. If they don't then we bump shoulders (and I'm tense, so it's not very gentle). If there's a line I brace myself and charge through, even if I went to the side I would be forced off so I hold my ground. When people get mad all I have to say is "why didn't you move?" and for some reason they never respond to that.

 

[Asdalan08]

No matter how polite you are there are some people (Chavs) who just want to ruin your day to impress their friends, they use their youth to their advantage because they know that retaliation from the adult would be illegal so they prance up to you stomach first and bump into you speaking some foreign language (Aye! Kyany Kwam!) then the rest of them stare at you as they pass... sometimes they have the nerve to spit towards you, and this isn't normal spit, this is under-age smoker chav spit. The message I'm trying to put across is cull the chav's... It's the only way!

 

[moretimethansense]

No matter how polite you are there are some people (Chavs) who just want to ruin your day to impress their friends, they use their youth to their advantage because they know that retaliation from the adult would be illegal so they prance up to you stomach first and bump into you speaking some foreign language (Aye! Kyany Kwam!) then the rest of them stare at you as they pass... sometimes they have the nerve to spit towards you, and this isn't normal spit, this is under-age smoker chav spit. The message I'm trying to put across is cull the chav's... It's the only way!

If you ever run for office pm me and I'll vote for you.

 

[SimuLord]

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.

 

[Private Custard]

I'm polite usually. But in extreme circumstances, walking straight through the middle is required.

Warning, this can cause fights if the people you walk through are of lesser intelligence, dressed in burberry, have their tracksuits tucked into their socks and are wearing white trainers.

Spoiler: like these guys

Ah yes, knackers. Of course, these guys would hurl abuse at you even if you were walking on the other side of the street.

Indeed. Because people like this have all the characteristics of people that were starved of oxygen at birth, yet refused to die. Sort of like walking lobotomy victims without the scars and now fuelled by nothing but rage and bile.

These people need to be executed, in public!

 

[The_ModeRazor]

I leave people enough space to pass by me (while I keep going), and they always do. That includes groups, regardless of numbers. For someone who's 5'7, I apparently command a lot of respect.

Or more likely, it's just happenstance. That keeps on happening.

 

[Axzarious]

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?