This is obviously a trivial matter in the grand scheme of things and if anything it has given me a laugh this afternoon but part of me is not sure if there’s some sort of etiquette here I’m missing.
I was with my four year old, walking up the hill to the playground along the path (but the road is access only so there’s rarely a car and it’s wide enough for two people to pass each other ) when he complained of a stone in his welly, so we moved to the side to lean against a wall to sort it out. There was a woman coming down the path on that side but at least 10meters away.
I don’t know if you’ve ever played the Sims but sometimes they malfunction and keep trying to get round an object by sort of repeatedly walking into it. As I was fishing around in the welly for the aforementioned stone, this woman walked straight into me and sort of just stayed there. Obviously I was all ‘hello? What are you doing?’ And she said ‘excuse me but I was walking on this side so you need to move out of the way so I can carry on’
I refused and said she should just go round us but she point blank refused and there was a bit of verbal argybargy until I said ‘look, you have two options, pass us or wait until I’ve finished doing what I’m doing and then I will move ’ and she just waited and told me I was incredibly rude and needed to learn some manners. When I did move (having made sure I checked the other welly too and readjusted my son’s socks) she clapped and said ‘see! You are learning!’ So I told her she was extremely strange and you can’t expect to use a path without ever moving to the other side of it.
Was I in the wrong 😂 do you pick a side of the path and expect to march along it come hell or high water?
She was youngish with no obvious walking impairment just FYI.