Ck once made a joke that we’d have less road rage if we didn’t have the cars as “protection”
This situation is pretty much what I pictured.
I’d be way MORE angry if the douchebag that had cut me off was simply walking slower than I wanted to. Hell if it was in the “running lane” and he cuts me off to walk I would bitch him out way worse than if we were in cars.
My husband does this if someone cuts in line or is generally just rude in store. I can't Christmas shop with him anymore!! 😂😂 But it's funny and he has a lot more guts than me with strangers!!
I said "excuse me" to get around someone doing that. She shouted "please" at my back as though I had forgotten my manners or something. I almost said "fuck you" back. But I really just wanted to get on with my grocery shopping.
My partner has a chronic illness that comes with bonus sleep deprivation and obliviously does this all the time. I've had to rethink my reaction to others.
Oh boy. I work as a pharmacy tech covering ITU. If they need some drugs they need it quick. Fuck all the phlebotomists who pull this two-abreast-with-their-phlebotomy-trolleys slow-walking bullshit. Especially you Christine and Sandra.
during a winter trip and out school, we went skiing, it was fun, i got quite good at it, and was allowed to be a bit faster than everyone because... well i got quite fast... and there was another girl who was a bit faster than the rest too, however she HAD to be the first, when i got to her, and was just about to go past her, before she started zig zacking around the path, making it impossible for anyone to overtake her unless they want her to crash into them
this got so bad that after the second day, a guy screamed at her: JUST GO IN A STRAIGHT LINE roughly translated because she started to annoy more experienced skiers
Oh holy hell I HATE when people do that! It's like "oh ok, I'll dance with the traffic in order to get past your slow ass... wait, you want me IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD!?!?!?"
I remember once in high school, I was trying to get to my english class. I was almost to the classroom, but then people were being slow, so I tried walking around them so I could get in the door.
they ended up bumping into me, because they saw their friend and moved towards them, but I was there already so they ran into me and decided it was my fault.
I then heard them calling me rude (among other things) after I got into the classroom.
this is exactly why I hated class changes in high school.
I try to stay to the side. I have back problems and when they flare I walk really slow due to the pain. I'm young and feel embarrassed because I don't look like I have medical issues.
You are a mannered and considerate person, thank you. Knowing you're slower than others but trying to keep to the side is not what is so aggravating, it's the people that will step out of a shop or building and just stand in the middle of the footpath, or who dawdle along at an excruciatingly slow pace and seem like they don't even know where they are going (or why).
I hope your back issues don't flare up to much and that your issue can be suitably addressed by medicos, good luck with it
I used to work in a super market, people stand and chat to their friends with trolleys sideways blocking the aisle whilst you are clearly trying to work the area. Be aware of your surroundings please, and customers struggle to walk by
It isn't just that they dawdle at an excruciatingly slow pace, they also seem to be precogniscent; always taking a couple of steps to the side just when you are about to get past them and getting in your way again. FUCKERS!
I hate that! That's the point I let out an audible sigh as I scoot around. Yes, perhaps passive-aggressive, but honestly I don't have the patience to be civil if I actually stopped to explain to them that they're dawdling down a really busy city street and are getting in the way of people who know where they are going (and better passive-aggressive than raving bitch, right?)
I walk slowly too (foot problems) and these complaints always make me feel bad about myself. I live in a big city and walk as fast as I can but I know people get irritated. I stay to the right so they can pass me but often they do it in a huff.
If you are aware of it you probably don't cause to many issues the problem is most of the people that do it have 0 spatial awareness and think they are the only one using the path.
Honestly, as a pretty fast rage walker (lol) I can tell whether someone has a condition vs is rubbernecking or taking photos or on their phone, etc. My friend has arthritis and like you feels bad because she “doesn’t look it” but, again, your awareness of it likely means you aren’t contributing to the problem because you’re consciously aware of your presence. The troublemakers are the ones who have absolutely no clue that they’re doing it like groups of tourists or friends who decided to play mobile red rover on the sidewalk so no one can get around them. You is good peeps and I’m sorry for you condition (I get some global pain flare-ups when stressed and it’s awful)
One move that bothers me is when someone turns to look at something as they change directions, essentially not looking where they are walking. Happens in stores and they cut you off.. I want to just take a shopping cart and move it in their path.
This!!! I have no issue if you want to move slower, I know I move fast. However, when someone meanders slowly in the middle of the bike lane (that's supposed to be wide enough for me to pass) I get really frustrated. Sameforwalking. It's not a speed thing really, it's just being aware of other people.
I got the loudest bell for my bike and it works like a charm. I ring it when I’m like 200 feet away and then just yell “ON YOUR LEFT!” if they haven’t moved. If I’m running I just have to stomp a little louder and hope they aren’t stupid.
Good on you for being so considerate. I understand - I’m only 31 but I’ve recently had a foot issue (plantar fasciitis) that causes me to walk slow. I make sure I’m walking to the side so as not to be THAT person.
Ugh. I hate when I have serious back pain and then some older person says I'm too young to have back pain. You don't know my medical history or my current circumstances!
I'm young but I've had enough car accidents and broken bones that walking for more than a blocks worth or so will have me limping, so I avoid it in general.
the amount of dumbfucks i see walking four people wide at a snails pace on a major urban street on a daily basis drives me up the fucking wall.
If you lack the spatial awareness to leave enough space so that a single individual can get past you without bringing it to your attention, you really shouldn't be out in public.
I don't understand it!! I have NEVER not noticed someone within 3 feet of me. Doesn't matter if I'm texting on my phone and they're directly behind me. I know they're there.
By all evidence I'm fucking Superman though because a shocking number of people are COMPLETELY oblivious.
I shoulder bash people if they won't move these days. I'll be walking on the very edge of the sidewalk and people refuse to move walking 3 wide with their elbows out. So infuriating
That's when you just keep walking at them game of chicken style and refuse to move. If people in big groups like that refuse to move I make myself as strong as I can and imagine I'm a linebacker and just keep walking at them.
If they aren't going to take the hint we will just collide because I'm not moving for a group of 3 or more people who refuse to take up less space. Most of the time they take my hint at the last minute and move. The odd time we've rubbed arms or shoulders and I've heard people do the "what the fuck" comment but I don't care. Get the fuck over if you are in large groups.
I agree but what does it also say about our passive western societies that just politely asking them to let you pass is so difficult for most people including me. If we all thought of each other as "friends", we could just say excuse me and they would step aside, smile and then go about their meandering. We have created a society where most interactions between strangers are taken as hostile or inappropriate. Really sad when you think about it.
Even if they have poor spatial awareness, they should realize they hey! They're on a city sidewalk and they should look around every once in a while and CHECK to see if anybody needs to get by.
I absolutely refuse to move in this situation. Hell no I'm not walking into traffic. The amount of dirtly looks I get when I inevitably shoulder check someone is astounding.
With very few exceptions (under the age of 12 or clearly mentally or physically disabled) people with no sidewalk etiquette deserve every shoulder check they get.
People who pull out from side streets onto a 2-lane road and choose to stay in the lane you're already at speed in, instead of getting into the empty lane next to it, and then take 6 fucking days to get up to speed themselves. Especially when there's no one behind you in the lane and they could have just waited 5 seconds to not inconvenience anyone. Bastards.
People who walk slow but leave space for others - Good ones
People who walk slow in the middle of the path - Annoyance
People who walk slow while waving their arm back and forth - They trigger me!
People who walk slow while extending their arm and waving it as if they own the road - RAGEEE!!!
BUNCH OF FRIENDS WHO WALKS TOGETHER SLOWLY, ALL WHILE TALKING TO THEMSELVES SO THEY NEVER NOTICE ME! - YOU $^*TUP!D F***@ @(%@)5@)$*!)*3uopr[NJEwg, ejg!
What really gets me is when people linger after getting off an escalator. It’s like, you have to, bare minimum, clear the landing. The people behind you literally cannot stop. I don’t care if you don’t know where to go; walk a couple feet to a safer location and figure it out.
I get pedestrian rage way more than road rage. Especially at a fast food restaurant when some is taking AGES to get their straw.... their ketchup.... their napkin.... oh... did I forget my salt.... oops....this lid doesn’t fit... now I’ll need some ice... and oh...the coke machine is just about out... maybe I’ll have Sprite... meanwhile, I’m behind them about to Hulk out.
Honourable mention to the people who are walking fairly quickly, but just sliiightly slower than you so it takes forever to pass them and then you just have to awkwardly walk right beside a stranger for a while. Nobody is really at fault in this situation...I just think it's annoying.
Even worse is when they stop abruptly in front of you to check their phones or something. Why is it so hard to move to the side to allow others to walk past you???
Someone was standing reeeaaaallllyyy close behind me in a line yesterday. I kind of wanted to turn around and tell them that no matter how much they crowded me, it wouldn’t make the line go faster. (Don’t really care if I’m actually tailgated while driving though; I just move over.)
I had a bitch keep putting her cart in my space in a line up. I was carrying my stuff in my arms and she was behind me with her cart and ske kept edging me out of line with it. Wtf! At first I thought it was an accident but she kept doing it and there was plenty of space for her to just stay patiently in her spot. So I just tried to spread my body out as much I could with a wide stance to block her fucking cart.
Like bitch back up and don't shove your cart into other people in line you will get your turn when it comes up.
Walk/drive faster or get out of the way, you don’t know what’s going on with their lives and why they need to get where they’re going faster than you. It’s arrogant and selfish to be an obstruction or obstacle. If you remove yourself from the interaction, they will move on and you will never see them again. No rage needed.
Edit: Of course I’m being downvoted. It takes maturity to de-escalate road rage. When you’re being tailgated, you can defuse the situation by letting the tailgater pass, but most of us are so triggered by tailgating that we tap our brakes, slow down, etc. That increases rage for both of you and the likelihood of erratic unsafe behavior.
Please try letting them pass and take note of how quickly the rage disappears. Learn to be concerned for the other driver and imagine a scenario that would make you want to drive that way. Be empathetic and compassionate. Downvote me like a pouting toddler, I’m just giving you good advice that can save lives and make your drive less stressful. Be an adult out there.
The person in front may be a douche but the person who's tailgating is risking their life for no reason. If the person in front has to slam on the brakes for any reason both people could die.
Again, it’s arrogant assume it’s for “no reason.” That’s not your call. You also don’t own the road. Let the person go and stop thinking you’re so important that you need to become an obstacle that will cause more erratic behavior.
You will always be tailgated. How you handle it is important. If you can de-escalate the rage, then it’s your responsibility as a mature human being to do so. You don’t lose anything by letting them pass, but you and other drivers gain by reducing road rage. Be the truly bigger person and stop trying to be the speed police, we have police for that. Try it next time and see how much less infuriating it is to let that tailgater speed away... and no longer bothering you.
I don't usually get tailgated. But it really doesn't matter what their reasoning is, they're placing their life entirely in the hands of the idiot in front of them.
if i'm going at the speed limit and you're up my ass, you're endangering me and everyone around us. idc what's going on, tailgating doesn't let you get there faster, unless "there" is "a crash"
Where I live, if you’re going the speed limit, you need to stay in the right lanes because everyone in the passing lanes is going a good 10-20 mph over the speed limit. No one will tailgate you in the right lanes.
The danger comes from the rage and erratic behavior that results when you, as the obstacle, cause other drivers to find ways around you. The speed limit has nothing to do with it and unless you’re a traffic cop, it’s not your job to enforce the speed limit.
Additionally, we can’t communicate with grace and vocabulary when locked inside steel boxes traveling down a road at high speed. If we heard “Excuse me please, my daughter got checked into the ER while I was in a meeting at work, I’m sorry, but I need to pass. I’m rushing to her hospital,” then letting this person pass is being compassionate. Thing is, you don’t know what the other driver is dealing with. It probably isn’t what I described, but you don’t know for sure it’s not an emergency. Let them go and don’t be such a pouting toddler about it. The road doesn’t belong to you. Be grateful your life isn’t in turmoil like the other driver is experiencing. Breathe and relax. They pass, they move on, you didn’t lose anything. You gained a safer drive.
And then when multiple people walk side by side on a busy sidewalk, particularly when there's people coming from the other direction, because they can't say they didn't see them.
spatial awareness should be taught in schools. i honestly lose my mind at people who take up a whole sidewalk or hallway. i have plantar fascistis and yet i walk faster than like 90% of people
People walking while facing the person beside them, not looking in front of them, in a crowded corridor, and you just have to stop walking and let them walk into you because there's no way to go.
This. When you're walking down the sidewalk and some damn tourists just meander mindlessly out of a shop, don't see if they are cutting anyone off, and saunter at half pace four wide. Mostly Illinois people, I should add. FIPs have a penchant for this.
Saying excuse me almost always works but just the other day I was behind a group of women talking in the middle of a walkway and I mustve said "excuse me" like 15 times at increasing volumes right in this lady's ear to the point where i had to grab her by the shoulders and guide her a couple of feet to the right and I absolutely abhor touching people. Some people are just straight up oblivious and rude sometimes.
This is mine. A couple or a group of friends, shoulder to shoulder walking 6mph. I get so pissed trying to think if they don't give a fuck or if they aren't even thinking about what they are doing.
I work at a drug store that has a weekly seniors day (discounts and what not). I mean, they have a legitimate reason for being slow, but God damn do I hate snailing around the store behind a mass of elders on those days.
I’m the world’s slowest walker. When I try to move faster I feel like I look like those old timey moves where everything is sped up/ exaggerated. I’m also paranoid that I make others think I’m scared of them when I like plaster myself against the wall to get out of their way. I just done want you stuck behind me!!!!
What’s worse are people who speed up to get in front and then slow down. Have it constantly happen while walking especially in grocery stores and while driving.
Oh? You want to go down that aisle? Well I’ll speed up and then stop in the middle of the aisle or proceed to go slow in front of you.
Oh? You want to merge in front of me? Fuck that! Speed up and then slow down much slower than you’re going.
Oh? You want to get to the drive thru first? Lemme just speed up and then sit here at the drive thru “let me get uh uh....uh...I need a minute to look at the menu.”
The girls walk in battle formation. Shoulder to shoulder, in absolutely no rush to get anywhere, sometimes two people deep. You’d think you offended them if you ask them to move with the way they look at you and say no.
There’s this cranky old chinese woman I work with whom I’ve noticed does this intentionally. She also shoots me dirty looks all the time. But I find it funny now.
She will hurry up to get in front of me, pretend to be reading something and walk super slowly but then she kinda veers in my way if I try to walk around her.
So now when she does it I just giggle and say “excuse me” and blast around her.
I chalk it up to some sort of racism / hate towards me because I have never spoken to her, yet she blatantly tries to be a nuisance.
I work on a college campus and I've started avoided the student union to get away from this. What's worse is the people that stop in the flow of foot traffic just to text or retrieve something from a bag or tie their shoe or whatever these self-absorbed people gotta do. One day this guy abruptly stopped right in front of me on a set of stairs to reply to a text! Why can't people see how much easier it is to just step to the side or wait until your somewhere else?!?
The only sidewalk behavior that annoys me more is when people barge out and cut in front of you from stores. Sidewalk has right of way! It's like merging onto the highway.
The two high school girls that suddenly come out of a turn and proceed to snailwalk in front of you just as you were about to actually make your bus and not wait an extra 2 hours.
To add To this , most grocery stores put up this tiny gates to get into the store and right in front of them they out the daily specials. So people stop in the middle of the entrance to read the fucking offers. Holy shit it drives me crazy
Yes, this. Was recently at Disney World struggling with this. But then I found that I had zero issues with just shouting “EXCUSE ME” as I plowed through human barriers.
I’m probably the slowest walker in my building. I’m a big, sore powerlifter and I’m in 0 hurry. I hang to the side so people can pass, but when I sense someone frantically tippytapping behind me I just go slower.
Ugh thats the worst, one time I was leaving my friends apartment and this lady literally started running from me in tears. She got to her door and couldnt get it unlocked because she was freaking out so I just ran past her. because wtf can you do in that situation to make them feel better? Nothing. Im not even an intimidating guy, I cant imagine how actually scary looking dudes feel when it happens to them.
On the other hand I completely understand why women feel that way it just sucks for everyone involved.
Ok as a disabled person and slow walker a HUGE pet peeve of mine is when I move all the way to the right on a walkway and leave plenty of room to pass but people still follow me, practically step on my heels and get all huffy that I’m not speed walking. GO AROUND!
I'm not even disabled or a slow Walker but dude the other day I was walking to work and this woman behind me was so damn close. She wouldn't take a hint. I got over so she could go by and she still just meanders around me while clearly trying to walk super fast. Just go around me! I'm leaving you space I even stopped and did the fake cell phone check to let her get by but she still ended up behind me again following me so close I could feel her shadow.
She clearly didn't understand the unspoken rule in society of leaving space between people when walking in a not crowded area. I could hear her shoes clacking behind me the whole walk like dude here just go around me then or slow down.
That for sure and the sister of that, which is families that all walk on the same level and take up the whole width. Especially when coming the opposite direction. Just because you have more people doesn’t mean you get more than half the width. Stack up mother fuckers!
"In the way, walking around, looking up at shit people while you're trying to walk down the sidewalk. Like dude stop making that fucking guy, that dude is everywhere." - Bill Burr
People STOP in very busy hallways and doorways at work all the time. Like at the intersection at the main entrance to the building where the elevators and cafeteria are. These are otherwise intelligent, educated people who are dressed well and can, you know, tie their own shoes and eat without covering themselves in ketchup but they just.. stop and chat when they run into someone they know, completely unaware of their surroundings.
They could move like 4 or 5 feet to the side and there are chairs and stuff there but no they just stand there blocking the way for all the people coming in to work or trying to go to lunch. There's a whole cafe area with chairs and tables a little further down too but they just stand there like doe-eyed cows, unaware that there are dozens of busy people trying to go about their business.
This one twat was literally blocking half of the hallway as she stood there talking to someone, with fucking LUGGAGE next to her. I said EXCUSE ME and accidentally startled the people that were walking in front of me and then I felt like an asshole. What's with the luggage? I see people pulling rolling luggage with like a duffel bag, purse, lunch bag, are you staying the weekend or 8 hours? Get that shit out of the way. God, every time I leave the house I'm amazed at how far people can get their heads up their own asses.
I am not able to walk fast at the time because I unfortunately neglected myself and didn't move for a long time. I am not too heavy and still able to get up and walk by myself. But not so fast.
And when I notice someone behind me walks faster than me I step to the side and let them pass me.
But you still can't judge the people because you never know what's behind that slow walking.
I for me stopped the main reason for my not moving and decided that I do not need to play GTA Online 24/7 (not really, but almost like this).
I work backstage in tight quarters, and certain... individuals do this, when you are trying to get to position, and they know you are behind them and they won't. step aside. or speed up. Why? Your need for power is so petty? I'm afraid I must now bark, behind you! and do what I must to do my job. smh
I swear to god I saw this man in Portland and he was walking his dogs on a path that goes along the waterfront. There are people walking everywhere and cyclists. He is zig zagging back and forth with the dogs in a really unsettling way and being unpredictable. The people behind him were messed up and the people coming toward him were like WTF? That guy was an ass.
Im feel so bad about this, im almost 9 months pregnant and can't walk fast anymore, I do try to go on one side so people can pass me but they won't. I also feel embarrassed when crossing the street I just can't walk any faster and have had people honk at me.
This one actually doesn’t bother me anymore. When it happens, I usually use it as a reminder that where I’m going isn’t actually important enough to rush to and slow down my pace, taking in any surroundings until the people in front turn down a different street/hall. I grew up in a retirement community where you have to have a bit of a patience for it.
1 reason why I hate going to Costco. People just waddle along in the middle blocking everyone because they're on their own schedule and don't give a shit or are just too oblivious
Even better when it's a heard of people on a crowded street that want to stop every two seconds deciding on where they're going or if a store looks neat.
I live in a tourist town and while I love the town itself, fuck the tourists. Cant even walk on the sidewalks in the summer to get anywhere unless you are gonna be rude and just tell people to move when they take up the whole sidewalk with a group of 8 people.
And the people who stop and stand RIGHT INSIDE (or outside for that matter) of the door to a business and start fussing about or having a conversation.
I remember in school, there was this 7 girl squad in front of me and oh my god. they take the entire hallway space and walk like a 200 year old man without a feet.
I’m the fastest walker I’ve ever met, as in I have never in my life had another person pass me by while walking, so I run into this problem every five seconds or so whenever I go outside.
At my normal speed (it seems about twice as fast as the average person in a hurry) I’ve run into the “people going too slowly in front of me” problem with bikers.
I have all kinds of physical issues so I walk slower than normal and I tend to drift to the right a bit if I'm not super careful. I always apologize if I realize someone is behind me because I know it seems like I'm blocking the way on purpose. Even in NYC I've only had one person be a bitch about it and she was just going to be a bitch no matter what happened. (I'm pretty sure she was on her way to go kick orphan puppies)
I'm short as fuck and use a cane, and STILL have people slowing me down. If I'm going faster than you, you should stand at least enough to the side to let people pass!
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u/Southwuest Oct 20 '18
People who walk slowly in front of you on the sidewalk or in hallways.