Maybe it’s just me, but I really don’t think so. Want to know another thing that annoys me?
Ready or not, here it comes: When people walk on the wrong side of the sidewalk.
OK, I like to walk, I walk a lot, especially when the weather is decent (any where 90 degrees with 100% humidity, or 0 degrees with a wind chill of 25 below) I walk enough to justify having a pedometer. I have actually gone through a several of them over the past few years.
I try to walk at lunchtime. I usually eat at my desk so I can go out for a walk. If the weather is not conducive (oooh – big word, huh?) to an outdoor walk, I have a couple of Leslie Sanson walking DVDs. So I can have a 1 or 2 mile walk in the comfort of my own home. And, if Leslie and her gang talk too much and begin to annoy me, I can mute them, or throw on my ipod.
Getting to the point – when you are walking on the sidewalk, you should be on the same side of the sidewalk as if you were driving your car on the street. I do, and when someone is walking towards me, and they are on the same side as me, they are supposed to move to the other side! Why do they keep coming at me, refusing to move over to where they should be? Would they be have that way if they were driving a car?
Am I wrong? Isn’t it just natural to walk that way, the same way we drive? Although, the way some folks out there drive…..well….maybe they do walk they same way.
October 11, 2008 at 10:41 pm |
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I hate when people walk on the wrong side of the sidewalk. It messes up the flow, especially in high volume areas (i.e. downtown Chicago.) I also hate when people are walking and all of a sudden, with no notice or desire to step to the side, they stop. Just stop. In the middle of the sidewalk, not caring if they’re in someone else’s way.
Oh! And then there are those people who are walking a fine line in the middle of the two sides of the sidewalk. You accidentally bump their shoulder because they’re all up in your personal space and they have the audacity to call you a bitch. You don’t own the eff’in sidewalk!!