Nature does not hurry - yet everything is accomplished - Lao Tzu A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour All who wander are not lost -- JRR Tolkien
I get this all the time. People in crowds who feel the need to spread out into one big line as they walk down the hall rather than walk in a pack with some behind each other so people don't have to get bogged down walking behind them listening to their stagnant conversation. And, we have a very wide hall. Yes, there are a lot of inconsiderate people out there who really don't care if you can pass or not...similar to people who clog the fast lane when driving and don't happen to care what their doing to people behind them. In fact, I would venture a guess that most people who tend to block people behind them in walking also do this in driving. So, I won't feel guilty popping a cap in their head should I ever feel I need to bring on some of my own inconvenience. lol
"Enjoy the journey" from my cubicle to the bathroom? Uh...OK. My office has narrow hallways and I always get stuck behind the 3 fat women waddling along side by side taking up the whole hallway. Either that, or we're walking in opposite directions and they don't move when you're walking towards them. The hallway should be like a road. You don't drive your car into oncoming traffic, why would you do it in the hallway? MOVE!!!! And another thing. My office is a 2 story building and people insist on using the elevator. The elevator is 3 feet away from the stairs. Seriously, I can understand if we're talking about 3 or 4 stories, but 2 stories? Take the stairs, you lazy f***s. I really need a vacation...
Actually, I drive the opposite of the way I walk. I usually follow the speed limit (don't worry, I stay in the "slow lane") and I like to just sit back and enjoy the music...perhaps because travelling inside 3,000 pounds of metal and plastic being propelled by thousands of tiny explosions is a TAD different than walking down a hallway...
No different, only different in your mind! Next time you're walking down the hall just remember.... "That you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour. It's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned, The sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day Through an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars, It's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side. It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick, But out by us it's just three thousand lightyears wide. We're thirty thousand lightyears from galactic central point, We go round every two hundred million years. And our galaxy is only one of millions and billions In this amazing and expanding universe. The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whiz. As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light, you know; Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space Cause there's bugger-all down here on earth!" and remember you are made of more atoms than stars in the galaxy that are also spinning at tremendous speeds etc....
And I thought you people were jerks in the freeway threads. Mind your own self. No one else gives a **** if you like to walk fast. Why should a slow walker inconvenience himself for a fast walker? If you're wondering, I walk at a moderate speed.
I walk quite slow. Even if I'm late somewhere, I purposely walk slow to give the effect that I am not in a hurry or late. I generally like to observe things at the slow pace I walk. On the other hand, when I drive I go pretty fast.
The same. But before anyone starts yelling "Move out of the way!"...I have this habit of looking over my shoulder every minute or so, just to make sure no one is coming up from behind. And if I do spot someone coming up, walking fast, then I purposely move out of the way for them. It's just common courtesy; just because I like to walk slowly and enjoy everything going on around me doesn't mean that someone else who's in a hurry should be stuck behind me. And whenever I'm in groups, I always make sure to try to do the single file thing if there are people approaching from in front or behind...
It depends on whether someone is walking after me and then I might need to out-walk them. Fortunately, no one has tested my out-walking skills.
THANK YOU. As a fast-walker that's really all one could ask for. Hell, sometimes there is someone walking faster than I and I make sure I am not in the way. People just have to be aware of their surroundings.
I think that works both ways. It'd just be nice if everyone had just a little bit of common courtesy. Don't walk up rudely behind someone if they're not walking at a break-neck speed like you. Try to move out of the way if you notice someone walking quickly behind you. I fail to understand why that's so hard. Instead, we all just love to b**** and moan about how people can't get out of our way or how people are pushing us to move faster. It's all me, me, me, which is exactly what this country is turning into. It sucks.
I wanted to say that I walk fast because I feel like I'm working my muscles a little more when I do so. I treat it like exercise, unless my shoes hurt my feet.
