Aibu to be angry with stupid, arrogant joggers

[Jayfee]

So, today, just out for a walk and like most people taking care to keep 2 metres apart from other people. Then a young fit woman jogs by from behind and leaves about 2-3 ft gap from me. She could have jogged around me and kept her distance but, no, why should she deviate her path. Selfish!!! And gp on TV just said that such behaviour does put pedestrians at greater risk.

The 2 metres is in case people cough our sneeze near you. You're very unlikely to catch coronavirus from someone running past you from behind.

I think it is very safe to say that there are idiots fitting in all categories of exercise. And I think that it is everyone’s responsibility to make sure that they do their bit, even if it means walking single file for a minute to let another person through. And this includes small people on scooters being to the side and making sure dogs are well behaved.

Yep, this

Do many people even know what ‘single file’ means ? Most of the pedestrians around here don’t seem to

Meh. Today I went for a walk at a local track. A woman with her two sons - I'd say both children under the age of 10 - cycled past me, they certainly didn't stay 2m away from me. Then about a kilometre on I saw they had turned around and were coming back. The smaller child cycled straight into the legs of a runner who was ahead of them, literally rammed his wheels into the runner's calves. The mother simpered and didn't do much. Arseholes bike and walk just as much as they run.

CoupeCourte
I see similar attitudes to this all the time (non lockdown situations) with small kids on scooters. I was walking my DS to school once and a small child came along on a scooter, couldnt steer probably and got so close I was barged into the hedge. Parent didnt even acknowledge me or apologise. Another time a dad from school stopped for a chat on the corner of a busy road and let his 3 year old scoot down the road on their own (he was facing the opposite way and could not see them) in that instance I was most worried about the child , that cars backing out of a drive etc wouldnt see them.

The whingeing from people who wouldn’t ordinarily walk the fucking length of themselves is doing my head in.

Cracking turn of phrase that.

Had the same thing here today. We were walking down a hill on a footpath ( left handside). A Jogger was running up the hill in our direction, on our side of the road (so totally into on-coming traffic but thats by the by).

Oh look-ee here. It's another person spouting absolutely dangerous bullshit on MN that heavily suggests that this is the first time they've ever been out on foot in their life.

If you are on foot and have to go in the road for whatever reason, you face the oncoming traffic so that you can see it and have a hope in hell of getting out of the way before you're mown down by a driver, who is not going to be expecting to see someone walking/running in the road!

Do you not realise that walking on the road is dangerous?

The whingeing from people who wouldn’t ordinarily walk the fucking length of themselves is doing my head in