Sidewalk/Path Etiquette Rant

[shazbox]

Does anybody else notice/hate this? You are walking down a sidewalk or pathway on the RIGHT hand side, like any normal North American would. Then all of a sudden there is somebody coming down the path the opposite way on their LEFT side. And you either have to move or run into them.

It drives my fucking insane and I get it all the time walking to school from my apartment along the pathway.

So the other day I see this girl about half a mile up, coming down the wrong side of the path. So I decided I was just going to stay course and if she didn't like it she could get fucked.

So I put on my best angry/determined/slightly psychotic face and turn up my music and start walking a bit faster. She gets closer and closer and still isn't moving to the side at all. So we get like 2 steps away and finally she swerves off and has to step in a snowbank and shit to avoid me. Oddly enough she didn't swerve to the open side of the path, she swerved off of it into the snow.

So now this is just my standard approach to dealing with these people. I've done it like 6 times this week. It seems to be pretty effective.

I can't wait for somebody to be stubborn so I can knock their ass off the edge and into the water.

[bigspenda73]

Hope you're a big guy for when that first collision occurs

[spoonitnow]

lol @ not stepping just onto the open path

[ProZachNation]

I hate this but when I hate more is people who stand in a big fucking group outside of a door

[Halv]

Do you mean the right side of the sidewalk or the sidewalk on the right side of the road?

Either way, don't ever come to Norway. There's no "wrong" side of a sidewalk here.

[bigspenda73]

I hate this but when I hate more is people who stand in a big fucking group outside of a door

QFT

or at the grocery, 3 women talking with their carts, blocking the aisle.

Happened to me Monday, I just stood there and stared at them for what seemed like 30 seconds until they got my drift and opened a path for me to walk through.

[boost]

Do you mean the right side of the sidewalk or the sidewalk on the right side of the road?

Either way, don't ever come to Norway. There's no "wrong" side of a sidewalk here.

he means the right side of the sidewalk, not the right sidewalk in relation to the street.

[Pelion]

dude you have issues. Inject something. Almost anything will make u feel better.

[boost]

and yah this is annoying as fuck, but I think its in your best interest to not let it bother you. I know I get irritated about things like this too if I let myself, but it really starts to seep into other parts of your life and all of a sudden you are this bitter angry person.

Dont reduce yourself to such a petty level IMO.

[Halv]

Lol for a minute there I thought you guys actually crossed the street to get on the right sidewalk. Still silly imo. On an escalator, sure, but how hard is it to walk past someone on the sidewalk?

[mojoNOgo]

duck and weave ,
zig and zag .

after watching the movie 'Fallen' ive developed a phobia of letting strangers bump into me .

damn you azazel !

[boost]

Lol for a minute there I thought you guys actually crossed the street to get on the right sidewalk. Still silly imo. On an escalator, sure, but how hard is it to walk past someone on the sidewalk?

hes talking about walking in opposite directions as the perpetrator. But I agree, just walk past them. By focusing on this subject you inflame it. Its mostly in your head. Its just like when driving, a lot of people have a "gotta make get there" syndrome. When you focus on this too much, every yellow light that you miss makes you feel like you failed. But its a fact of driving that you will get stuck at red lights, if you got through that yellow, youd just run into another red at some point. You gotta just relax and enjoy the ride, let go of all the tension, relax and enjoy your walk.

[shazbox]

I was only semi-serious about it bothering me lol

I just like to fuck with them by not moving out of the way

[boost]

I was only semi-serious about it bothering me lol

I just like to fuck with them by not moving out of the way

yah, as long as youre having fun and not actually being bitter. I do this sometimes, letting myself vent but also laughing at the same time since Im exaggerating my reaction to mock the tensed up tightly wound people who actually act like that.

[shazbox]

Another thing to do is to stand at the urinal right beside somebody else when there are other empty ones. Seemingly harmless but people hate it so much.

[flomo]

Another thing to do is to stand at the urinal right beside somebody else when there are other empty ones. Seemingly harmless but people hate it so much.

even with open urinals to the sides, i glare at them and wait to use the one that they are using
as they zip up i like to say "Finally"

[givememyleg]

Another thing to do is to stand at the urinal right beside somebody else when there are other empty ones. Seemingly harmless but people hate it so much.

isn't there a man law against this?

[donkbee]

even with open urinals to the sides, i glare at them and wait to use the one that they are using
as they zip up i like to say "Finally"

LOL

[chardrian]

I just sidle up next to them and stare down at their dong and snicker.

[Halv]

hes talking about walking in opposite directions as the perpetrator.

Yeah, I figured that out by myself :P.

A much more complicated situation imo is when I'm walking just a little bit faster than someone on an otherwise empty street and need to overtake them. First I have to correctly adjust my walking speed so I don't have to walk beside them for ten seconds, but at the same time I don't want to walk so fast that I get tired and sweaty. And it's always awkward if, after the overtaking when I've slowed back down to my pre-overtake speed, they've increased their speed and are now gaining on me.

As for urinals, it usually gets very quiet when I start singing a song.

[shazbox]

hes talking about walking in opposite directions as the perpetrator.

Yeah, I figured that out by myself :P.

A much more complicated situation imo is when I'm walking just a little bit faster than someone on an otherwise empty street and need to overtake them. First I have to correctly adjust my walking speed so I don't have to walk beside them for ten seconds, but at the same time I don't want to walk so fast that I get tired and sweaty. And it's always awkward if, after the overtaking when I've slowed back down to my pre-overtake speed, they've increased their speed and are now gaining on me.

As for urinals, it usually gets very quiet when I start singing a song.

Easy solution, take a rock and smash the back of their head. Then you can walk nice and slow by them.


I like to pull my pants down to my ankle before I piss beside the urinal all over the wall then say OH SHIT! and move over a foot to the urinal to continue.

[biondino]

Dude, if you're talking classical sidewalk etiquette, the gentleman should be walking on whichever side is closer to the road. This protects the lady from potential spray, gusts, exhaust fumes and runaway omnibuses etc. that may come from the road.

[bigred]

So I'm in this bar bathroom last night and this dude pulls up to the urinal next to me and is like "fuck man, I remember this bathroom being a lot bigger the last time I was here, we're practically crossing streams." I'm thinking wtf is wrong with you then, you could have waited two seconds so we're not having this manfest piss. So I say to him "Are you sure you weren't in the ladies room lats time? They usually have couches and shit, more room." I say it in a nice tone but coated with a fuck you, you're a bitch underlying tone. So he says "nah man but why do chicks always get couches, why do they deserve them?" I respond with "what, you want to sit with me in a men's bathroom and talk about feelings?" to which he shut the hell up and left. I win.

[Jack Sawyer]

dude you have issues. Inject something. Almost anything will make u feel better.

QFMFT