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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

Gah.. If you're going to walk so slowly down the High Street...

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catinboots · 03/12/2011 17:54

can you not walk at the edge??? Either the shop-side or the gutter-side?

I sympathise totally with you and your pushchair ot lameness or oldness or your inability to pass a shop window without pausing to peer in...

But surely you can see other people are in a rush, thus keeping the middle of the pavement clear would make sense????...

It will not hinder your shopping experience walking a few inches to either your left or right.....

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catinboots · 03/12/2011 17:55

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startwig1982 · 03/12/2011 17:57

It drives me mad, especially when people stop dead in front of you!! Plus, I've found that when I am out with the buggy, people coming the other way don't move over slightly, so we end up in the road!! That surely can't be right.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 03/12/2011 17:58

YANBU. Unless you count going shopping in the High Street on a Saturday in December.

Where I live we have nice wide pavements, so "they" work in teams to get in my way, walking or dawdling three abreast.

CaveMum · 03/12/2011 17:59

In my experience people with buggies are the worst. My dad is blind and the amount of times he has almost been tripped up by people with buggies stopping to have a natter with their mates in the middle of the pavement is unreal. You'd think the big white stick would give people a clue

Shakirasma · 03/12/2011 18:00

Haha OP you sound just like my Dad.

He moans like crazy about old people in particular, dawdling, pavement hogging and faffing.

What makes me laugh is that he is nearly 71 himself!

OurPlanetNeptune · 03/12/2011 18:00

I hear you OP. A group of builders were walking slowly as we made our way to school a few days ago. I was so annoyed by their lack of awareness for other pavement users that I said: 'You are walking too slow. Move aside so we can get past.'

chrimblycompo · 03/12/2011 18:00

Yabu to not say why you were rushing

If you were in your lunch break & rushing back to work fair enough

If it was because you hadn't put enough money in meter for car park then Shame on you

mosschops30 · 03/12/2011 18:00

Dont you have a buggy you can ram into their ankles? always followed by an 'oops sorry'.
Works every time

TheLastNameLeft · 03/12/2011 18:01

Im with startwig1982 on this ... gets me so cross when you are walking behind someone in a very busy street and they suddenly stop dead, causing you to almost run in to them.

Anyone remember the facebook group "I secretly want to punch slow walking people in the back of the head"?

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catinboots · 03/12/2011 18:03

Just to clarify for the frothers - I AM NOT A DISABALIST

I sympathise with you and your orthapedic shoe and your trolley on wheels...

But do you really have to walk at the pace of a snail in the fecking centre of the pavement?? And when I try and dodge you to the right, you swerve right; and likewise to the left..

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cantpooinpeace · 03/12/2011 18:05

My mum always calls them pitherers :)

EuphemiaInExcelsis · 03/12/2011 18:07

M&S Braehead foodhall any given Saturday aaaaarrrrrggghhhhh!!!!

Choose the feckin' whole chicken you want and bugger off out my way!!!!

immortalbeloved · 03/12/2011 18:08

YANBU

But I hate holding people up and getting their way (I am disabled) I usually use a wheelchair but if I'm having a good day I can sometimes go a short distance on crutches (I bloody hate my wheelchair ) Last time I did this I was obviously too slow for someone so they shoved me out of the way, I fell and fractured my already damaged pelvis. So now I just stay at home

Obviously not suggesting you would do anything like that OP, but if someone really can't help it, being tutted at and pushed can be really soul destroying. But I d understand the annoyance

hazeyjane · 03/12/2011 18:11

Ok, I don't want to be accused of being a frother,

but...

if you are not old/disabled/walking along with a gaggle of small children, isn't it easier for you to whoosh around the person in the way, rather than the dawdler to have to move out of the way?

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catinboots · 03/12/2011 18:11

aaah Immortal - you sound lovely and considerate..

But surely you must feel like running over the feet of the ditherers?? (and the tutters and pushers)

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Rollersara · 03/12/2011 18:18

Now, see, I have a wheelchair too and I love it because I can go much faster than on crutches. However, when I am whizzing about in wheelie and someone stops abruptly for no reason I either have to swerve into the road or hit them.

What I particularly like is when I do collide with them, they apologise to me

Shakirasma · 03/12/2011 18:23

Actually, I dont really think this annoyance is exclusively aimed at disabled/elderly/etc..

its aimed at all people who have no bloody awareness about what is going on around them.

yellowraincoat · 03/12/2011 18:23

Oh, I get mad at slow walking people, but not if they're on crutches. It's not like if you're on crutches you can swerve out of the way that quickly, it's hard enough when you're in high heels.

A while ago some people in London wanted to introduce a 2 lane pavement system, one for ditherers and one for non ditherers. I thought it was a good idea. I also wonder what on earth ditherers are DOING walking so slowly. Doesn't it annoy them to be walking at such a snail's pace?

KeepInMindItsAlmostChristmas · 03/12/2011 18:24

I hate with a passion people that dawdle along in the middle of the pavement, and even more so the people who stop dead in front of you, I have lost count of the people i have run in to/ almost run in to with my mums wheelchair when they just stop

Hassledge · 03/12/2011 18:26

Able bodied slow walkers wind me right up. And the people who randomly stop walking (they have to read an important text or pull a tissue from the depths of their handbag) regardless of the build-up of cross impatient people behind them - I get stabby.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 03/12/2011 18:27

My inlaws are ditherers. I don't like walking anywhere with them unless I have a cattle prod.

Meglet · 03/12/2011 18:33

I can't walk with other people as they always walk too slowly for me . I spend the entire dawdle feeling awkward and like my body is out of sync.

My family constantly take the piss as I'm forever zooming off ahead. My legs do not have a 1st gear, 6th gear all the way.

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catinboots · 03/12/2011 18:46

Yes yes. If you were in a car, you would not just stop dead when something caught you eye. You would pull in to the side of the road.

Why the flying fuck should it be different just because you're on foot? You slam on your anchors, I slam into the back of your Pac-A-Mac.

Not nice peeps. Not nice.

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EndoplasmicReticulum · 03/12/2011 19:08

Meglet I'm the same. My parents were like this, with no concessions for small children - I spent my childhood running to catch up.

bigTillyMint · 03/12/2011 19:09

catinboots, so glad it's not just me

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