Outside walks and people

[CharlotteRose90]

No hate please but I’m hoping I’m not the only one.

So me and my mum have been going for walks with the dog and it’s making me so angry what people are doing. Walking so close to us and not keeping distance. We’re both in the vulnerable category and I’ve said so many times to people to move away.

I completely get you don’t have to wear a mask but don’t walk next to or behind people you don’t know. The park we choose today had a massive path and people still did it. I ended up shouting at this woman for standing next to my mum and coughing.

Rant over. I’m hoping I’m not crazy

Theres always someone being annoyed by someone else.

Live and let live. Shouting at people is far worse than anything else described by the OP.

How do you mean, advised to keep further from runners? Do you mean the "slipstream" thing from last year, I think that was discredited.

The most annoying thing is when you have a whole group of people that take up the whole path and don’t get the hint to move across when you want to over take.

Although when out for a walk with my daughter today I seen the most over the top reaction to myself and my daughter walking down the path... plenty of room and yet some women still nearly face planted the wall trying to get as far away from us as possible. She even faced it. It was hilarious and a complete over reaction.

@NotMeNoNo

How do you mean, advised to keep further from runners? Do you mean the "slipstream" thing from last year, I think that was discredited.

I did mean that, yes. It's so hard to keep up! Everything changes all the time...

@Eckhart you are not wrong. There’s a lot of advice and it keeps changing, but attempts to simplify it means it doesn’t really cover a lot of situations very well.

If people are too close to you, you are 50% of the problem

It’s amazing people saying this breach of the rules is not as bad as this one.

Surely people get it’s all about risk management and keeping schools only was a risk but also a priority so to manage the risk everyone else have to be even more careful.

Not well if they do that this isn’t as bad as that.

Wake up people.

Dont shout at people. If you are vunerable you walk before everyone else at 7am or after 10pm or something like that . Just dont go when it is all busy out there. But it must suck that some people are so careless. I get that.

Instead of shouting at the people who annoy you, smile at the people who give you space. . You will return from your walk in much better spirits.

They've been really good around here, standing aside to let others pass and not getting too close.

I was out running yesterday and two sets of people were walking in large groups towards me (3 people and a dog and 4 people). I tried to get as close to the edge of the pavement as possible on the road side and expected them to at least try to walk in single file to give me space as I came towards them but nothing. The pavement was very wide so they could have done it if they could be bothered. On the second occasion I started breathing really heavily to make them realise they they should try and social distance.

Uhh, I agree. Getting cross at people just makes most of us feel even worse. I just smile. In fact all the trespassers on our private road (which is not gated) I have started trying to speak to any of them who are there as I work on my land - "cold day" or whatever.... and of course on an individual basis they are perfectly nice. I don't spit on them and do not say "let death come upon you as you took the risk to venture on private roads and must live with the consequences of your sorry wrongs..... You reap what you sow".

@Charlie63849

The most annoying thing is when you have a whole group of people that take up the whole path and don’t get the hint to move across when you want to over take.

Although when out for a walk with my daughter today I seen the most over the top reaction to myself and my daughter walking down the path... plenty of room and yet some women still nearly face planted the wall trying to get as far away from us as possible. She even faced it. It was hilarious and a complete over reaction.

Had this yesterday but in my local supermarket. I don’t know quite how this lady managed to do any shopping, she must have been turning around in circles all the way around the shop. Think she wanted the shop to herself, in the time it took her to turn away from anyone the person had already been passed (not closely)

Why don't YOU move away instead expecting others to?

Go somewhere you know will be quieter.

People are allowed to walk where they want.

I think the general assumption is that if you go out in a public place busy with lots of other people, you aren't frantically obsessed about social distancing.

If I were that worried, I would either stay in, or only walk somewhere I knew was quite quiet. I wouldn't seek out the most popular path for exercising for miles around on a bust weekend and then act all affronted if someone came near me.

As an aside, I did wonder whether some abusive men would use this sitiation as an excuse to harass women. It's quite polite round my way (someone shouting and screaming in public at strangers would be viewed as a total lunatic and probably a FB post warning others about their behaviour would go up on a local group) but I've had a couple of men literally threw themselves into the hedge and return my cheery hello with a blank stare, an overreaction of a level they probably do not usually have the luxury of. Always when there's no one else around.

Those saying 'why don't you move out of the way?' are missing the point - which is that everyone needs to move aside to leave space. One person moving aside generally isn't enough to leave a 2m gap. It's not difficult, a small courtesy so that we can all get a bit of fresh air and exercise. Even if you believe that the risk is minuscule outdoors, why ruin other people's enjoyment by yomping heedlessly along to make some sort of point that you don't agree with all this nonsense? I realise people might be deep in conversation/distracted by their toddler or dog etc and not realise they are taking up all the space, but this applies only to a small minority.

Certainly where I live, waiting for a quieter time isn't always an option, as it's icy for a large part of the day, with paths and pavements slippy until mid afternoon, when everyone piles out to get a walk/run/cycle before it gets dark at about 4.30. We can all do that if we show a bit of consideration and human decency. In general though, I think those who actually give a stuff are already being thoughtful of others. There's no hope for the rest.

@ClinkyMonkey

200% agree

@ClinkyMonkey completely agree, it's not up to just one person but common decency for everyone to be mindful of each other. The other day I walked and literally was astounded at the number of people who expected me to move out the way not even moving slightly to the other side.

@Yeahnahmum

"Dont shout at people. If you are vunerable you walk before everyone else at 7am or after 10pm or something like that ."

Yep, parks are safe places for vulnerable people, especially elderly women between 10pm and 7am. That's different way to fill the hospitals and morgues, I suppose. Get everyone out walking in dark, frosty weather.

The new strain is 50% more infectious. Children carry and transmit this one. We need everyone on board with mask wearing and keeping away from each other. It isn't difficult. At first it took some getting used to. We are used to queuing and walking close to each other. But we've now had nearly a year to get our heads around it.

I see it in supermarkets and on buses. People standing right next to older/vulnerable people, when there's been no need to. Believe in the virus or not, but you haven't got the right to put other people at risk. I was going down the travelator in Asda last week. There was a large group stood talking at the side. Two of them was coughing into the air over the people on the travelator. It took a complaint (not by me) to the security guard to move them. Just consider your behaviour, it isn't difficult.

The people in groups walking across our whole road usually move aside when I drive by but sometimes I have to slow very far down and drive almost up to them. People who have head phones in are a real danger too as they cannot hear you. Same with the people dressed entirely in black after night fall who walk on roads with no pavement near my house. it is almost as if they are on a suicide mission.

@CharlotteRose90

look what’s coming due to people not following the rules, talking BS rationalisations to excuse their selfish behaviour and slagging out people who do pay attention and focus on looking after others versus arsing a round.

[quote Justa47]@CharlotteRose90

look what’s coming due to people not following the rules, talking BS rationalisations to excuse their selfish behaviour and slagging out people who do pay attention and focus on looking after others versus arsing a round.[/quote]
See the thing is we’re getting locked down and I can’t wait however people will still be going outside for exercise without masks and meeting other people. People don’t listen and that’s why this virus is spreading. It’s truly awful that unless they lock us down with no outside time which they can’t do it will still happen.

Even in supermarkets people will be meeting for chats and on walks. Makes me feel sick as it means places outside will be busier then ever

I cut through a small local park on the way home today. The exit was completely blocked by two families stopping to chat. There was no way I was going to squeeze past them and their assorted kids, prams/scooters and dogs so I stood and waited, rather pointedly, for them to realise and move.

Nobody is asking or expecting special treatment, just that everyone be more aware of themselves and others when out and about. Surely that's not too much to ask?

I passed a woman in her early thirties today with a dog while I was out running. The path was quite wide and we were the only people on it so I was well over 2m away from her, but she literally threw herself against the grass banking to lean her body as far away from me as possible. I'm not a very sweaty or panty runner, honestly! She also completely ignored by cheery greeting and stared at me transfixed, looking scared.

How did we come to this?

@Blondiney

Exactly.
Anyway everyone’s rationalisations have caused today news