Do you feel guilty....

[Ry_B]

Overtaking people..whilst on foot walking down the road?

I get the impression that the slow walkers who seem to always hog the path (no lane discipline or awareness of anything around them) don't approve of such manouevers!

[Darkslider]

No, I love it. Especially dropping a cog on the run up and flooring it past leaning back due to the acceleration.

Quite satisfying threading a quick-moving path through the high street dawdlers, complete with quiet brrooooom noises and gear changes.

[stifler]

No. IMHO 24 hour shops should have slow walking peoples hours between 1 and 4 in the morning. This would save me a massive amount of aggro.

[Dupont666]

ever found you get stuck past the dangerous weavers???

closing in on them and you decide to pass and go right and then accidentally go right, drop back, try again and go left, they go left... drop back then barge or trip them up to get past...

Most dangerous version of this is the women with brolly... as not only does she do it on purpose, she has a leathal weapon that is at eye height and will think nothing about trying to whack you with it.

[Hairspray]

I feel quite self-concious when I do it

I feel that they're looking at me funny becuase I walk faster than them! Well, they shouldn't walk so goddamn slowly, then.

[Muzzer]

I always feel they're looking at me thinking "What's the rush?"

Well, there's no rush - I just don't like dawdling along at 2mph like you do.

As for families of 6 or more who see fit to walk along side by side blocking an entire pavement/shopping mall

And then there's people who see fit to stand in the middle of the pavement with their shopping trolley/2 pushchairs having a conversation whilst their 4 kids run around their legs.

They don't like it when the kid runs full pelt into my shin and is sent flying because I haven't stopped....

[theaxe]

Worst are people who a) block escalators and b) then decide to stop when they get to the top/bottom causing piles of people to be mechanically forced into the back of them. Dumbasses.

[angusc43]

When I was a teenager and was on foot I would often run just to get somewhere faster. Over 40 now so this is not so common.....

When I got into (push)bikes I spent loads of time tinkering with them to make them go and stop better. And I rode them flat out always. Still do.

When I first got into (cheap) cars I'd do engine, brake, suspension and wheel transplants to make them go and stop better. Just buy AMG's now

These days when I am on foot I generally walk as fast as I can - especially if I have been forced to go to a shop. (for example the hell that is Oxford St at the weekend...)

I really can't understand people who meander about aimlessly, wandering from side to side.

I don't feel any emotion about it, I guess they are just wired differently. It p's me off much more when they get into their cars and do the same thing of course....

[asbo]

Hairspray said:

I feel quite self-concious when I do it

I feel that they're looking at me funny becuase I walk faster than them! Well, they shouldn't walk so goddamn slowly, then.

No. They are looking at you funny because you happen to be a tt

HTH.

[Dupont666]

theaxe said:

Worst are people who a) block escalators and b) then decide to stop when they get to the top/bottom causing piles of people to be mechanically forced into the back of them. Dumbasses.

Thats when the London tried and tested rugby palm off to their back works.... so much fun but i get weird looks off the OH and her friends when I forget they are there and do it to some tourist...

[Chessers]

My walk to work takes me through the Cornhill, Leadenhall and Bishopsgate areas of London that are full of narrow paths and very slow walkers and it really fecks me off.

And I clarify slow but saying snails pace in middle of pavement.

Lots of overtaking first thing in the morning.

[Steamer]

Darkslider said:

No, I love it. Especially dropping a cog on the run up and flooring it past leaning back due to the acceleration.

Quite satisfying threading a quick-moving path through the high street dawdlersother patients on my loony ward, complete with quiet brrooooom noises and gear changes.

EFA

[Hairspray]

asbo said:

Hairspray said:

I feel quite self-concious when I do it

I feel that they're looking at me funny becuase I walk faster than them! Well, they shouldn't walk so goddamn slowly, then.

No. They are looking at you funny because you happen to be a tt

HTH.

Damn you and your thread intertextuality.

[nakedninja]

Darkslider said:

No, I love it. Especially dropping a cog on the run up and flooring it past leaning back due to the acceleration.

Quite satisfying threading a quick-moving path through the high street dawdlers, complete with quiet brrooooom noises and gear changes.

Oh yes, this is ace.

I have been known to mime using a tiptronic gearbox when really into my walking.

[ewenm]

Pedestrian slalom - great fun!

[andthensome]

I love bardging through peoples conversations that they decide to have RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of the fking corridor!

[Technonotice]

I was walking through the office once making the engine and gear change noises. I came zooming round a corner only to find 3 rather attractive women chatting by the kitchen. Oh how they laughed.

[asbo]

Technonotice said:

I was walking through the office once making the engine and gear change noises. I came zooming round a corner only to find 3 rather attractive women chatting by the kitchen. Oh how they laughed.

What kind of office was stupid enough to employ you?

[DrTre]

Walk behind them and clip their heels. Works a treat. Do it right and you make it appear their fault.

[Justayellowbadge]

Hairspray said:

I feel quite self-concious when I do it

I feel that they're looking at me funny becuase I walk faster than them! Well, they shouldn't walk so goddamn slowly, then.

Do you, you know, mince?