What's on our mind?
February 2, 2010
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Learning to walk
Walking is an easy task. As we all know unless physical disabilities infer your ability for bipedal motion then you can walk from point A to point B with little difficulty. This is common among us all which brings me to my first point. Although we can all walk, we most certainly do not walk the same speed.
On my daily commute through the beautiful Jackson Square I am always being caught behind slow moving molasses like people walking at a snails pace. People walking in that mall seem to have NO sense of direction and NO purpose for being there except for the sole reason of getting in my way. Making random turns and stopping unexpectedly. I just don’t understand how so many people can walk so slow let alone want to walk so slow in such a place.
That being said why can’t people walk like they drive. Stay to the right. I’m constantly walking head on with people who look like a deer in headlights. Baffled as if I am about to run them down. Sometimes if the person is bold they might even throw you a shoulder which is just beyond me. It’s a simple concept, stay to the right and it will all work out.
Along with staying to the right, if you are walking 1 mph then stay to the FAR right. Get out of my way I don’t want to have to weave in and out of people like I’m part of real life Frogger. I am a fast walker and I am definitely not sight seeing especially in a place like Jackson Square(Well that may not be true some of the people down there, boy I tell ya).
One final note. People wheeling around in those electric wheel chairs really should have horns or whistles or something that they can beep to warn you of their approach. Sometimes they come flying around corners nearly missing passerby’s. What’s the max speed on those things anyways?
