People who don't move out the way on the pavement

It's anmoying when it is group taking over pavement, but by myself, I stopped moving aside unless it's someone with mobility issues.
I just got fed up by being the nice idiot for nothing.
But I would make 4 people next to each other on pavement blocking it whole a criminal offence🙈 Same with prams

Unbearable isn't it? I'm 4'11 with the shortest legs and still end up overtaking 6'+ men because they are trundling along at a snail's pace.

Where I live it's mothers with teenage daughters. 'Look at us, we're so ace, we get the whole pavement and you get the gutter, cheerio!'

I know what you mean OP. I found that if I stand still in a crowd or with a group coming towards me, then I don't get so jostled as when I am moving. I think it might be because people automatically move out of the way of a stationary object, but not moving objects. Its not 100% infallible, but it does work.

This made me laugh, although I’ve noticed the same thing and I find it infuriating! People and groups of people refusing to budge an inch, when it would be so much easier for them than for me - navigating a buggy and a walking preschooler. I’ve also noticed that a lot of the time it is younger people (late teens/ early 20s).

For balance, the other day a lovely young lad helped us all off the bus. He was probably 17/18. I keep thinking about him because he’s really not the norm around here!

I can’t stand this entitled attitude. I was raised to step aside, and to make sure I stay to one side when using the pavement. I always ensure my young children do this for everyone - regardless of their age, gender or how able on their feet they may be.

It enrages me when people do not move over, especially when they can see I/my children and I have made an effort. They proceed to steamroller you, knocking hard into you with their bags - ignorant, rude bastards.

I have consciously stopped moving aside for men. Not elderly men on mobility scooters etc, but men generally. Once you start noticing their utter entitlement and blithe assumption of primacy, you can't unsee it. I have been known to mutter "do I look like a fucking doorway?" at the most egregious offenders.

When this happens, I just stop, stand still and wait, which usually means that the people coming towards me have to skirt round me. Doesn't always work, of course. I was recently 'shouldered' by a young man who obviously thought I should instantly evaporate because he couldn't bear to be a couple of feet away from his mates. I think people are generally much more rude these days. So consumed in their own importance that basic manners have gone down the drain. Although they expect politeness and 'respect' for themselves, of course.

I have noticed this the more I go out. I regularly have people walk straight into my large 8 month pregnant bump or expect me to move for them in 0.001 second.
I cannot abide the 2/3 abreast people walking towards you who refuse to move. I often step into the road or move aside and I’m sick of feeling I have to when nobody ever does the same for me.
I see a lot of disabled people walked into often, an elderly lady was knocked off her feet by a large man in my local town and he didn’t even stop to apologise or help her.
The only people I have witnessed to be considerate when out and about is oddly teenagers, perhaps it’s dependent on where you live but I do notice teenage boys step aside for women with prams, elderly and disabled which is lovely to see, although rare.
If you don’t intend to move for anyone regardless of disabilities to just plain selfishness, then walk close to the wall/road side so there is plenty of space for others to walk past or overtake if necessary.
People have become very selfish and entitled, it doesn’t inconvenience anyone to move aside by a few steps for 2 seconds. The world has gone to shit.

I don't care. Pretty much everyone is moving far too slow for me on a pavement anyway so I have to go around them all. Seriously, the general public moves at a snail like pace, if I was waiting for them to step aside I would never get anywhere.

I do this too. Especially when it's a couple who couldn't possibly stop holding hands for a second and walk single file so I can walk past without going in the road. Luckily I am built like a tank.

I nearly had to walk into a wall because a couple couldn't let go of each other and wouldn't go single file.

I once had a man have a go at me when I had no other option but to walk between a couple ‘split them up’ , they were both walking with arms fully outstretched. ‘Happy now? ‘ he said. People are very strange sometimes.

Yes! It's like a stand off. I'm not gonna be made to stand in the road for them. So I stand my ground and walk confidently and they'll move at the last second.

Windsor! Absolute worst for this. Walking two or three abreast with no intention to go into single file. I walk straight at them now - which I realise ha made me just as rude as they are.

I also do the standing still thing. I don't understand why it works, but it does most of the time.
I read somewhere that generally people will give way to people bigger then them. I'm a tiny five feet so it gets exhausting when everyone seems to expect me to weave around them.

I'd love to know this too! I've got friends with guide dogs whove saud they've been walked into whilst out with their dog

So when you do the patriarchy chicken thing (love love this name) do you do your half of the moving or do you just not move at all?

Yes, I do it too
How about combining it with @TrashyPanda 's idea of a squeezy bulb horn?
Parp! Parp! 🤣🤣🤣

What is this all about eh @SouthCountryGirl why does the effect happen? Research should be funded into this!

@YouJustDoYou Patriarchy Chicken 😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏

I sometimes have to use a walking stick because of a fluctuating health condition affecting my mobility from time to time, and people don't always get out the way even though I physically can't get out of their way in time.

This has brought back a memory of when I lived in London and worked near London Bridge. It was raining and a man came the other way and walked into at me with such force that I ended up in the path of an oncoming double decker bus. Another passer by grabbed me and pulled me back onto the pavement. Everyone's brollies were in everyone's faces. I was so shocked by it all.

I feel a little shaken at that memory - it was 12 years ago now.

I do think it has got worse since Covid. Driving is also worse. People won't give way to anyone and won't move to one side to let others past.
I've found that people are very very selfish at the moment and wrapped up in their own needs and wants with no thoughts for others. eg. I want to walk down the pavement with my friends 3 abreast so that's what I am going to do, irrespective of whether someone's trying to push a buggy or is using a wheelchair.
But then I'm really upset at the moment because I'm going to need an operation soon and I've had to forewarn a couple of people (related to work) and all I got was how I would be massively inconveniencing them and telling me when I can schedule my operation for. One of them even said "You don't need that operation. It can wait". I've said and have repeated this several times "No, I'll be having the operation as soon as I am given an appointment".
FUCKS SAKE.
Sorry that was a slightly off-topic rant, but it is similar - shows how selfish people are.

I walk everywhere, I've only noticed it mostly from young males, so I play Patriarchy Chicken and see if I can make them move when I don't.

My favourite is when I'm walking back from the supermarket maybe carrying two heavy bulky bags and someone is striding towards me in the middle of a the narrow pavement on an unswerving course - look, buddy, I can breathe in but my bags can't and I can't magically disappear them so while I can step to the side and try and take up less space you'll have to do the same or get whacked! And then...they get sideswiped by my huge, very visible, heavy bags because they wouldn't take a small step to one side. I'm not expecting people to fling themselves into the road, just use one half of the pavement!

I have a knee issue and can't move as nimbly as I could - it's an epidemic of the free range stupid walking along on their phones. I just stop dead. They will move round me once they realise I'm in the way. Motorcycle couriers in mass on the street outside shops are a nightmare, big blokes with helmets and always on their phones (twice they've reversed their bikes onto me and I've slapped the back of it.)
It's a jungle out there!!