Are you someone who, when walking in a group, spreads across the whole pavement and when someone comes in the other direction just look blank and stupid like annoyed cattle that you have to move aside a bit

[CurdinHenry]

Is it because your brain switches off in a group environment or are you always like this?

Yes, I’m one of those people. Interestingly my body has an unusual viscous quality that means I slowly ooze and melt as I walk and after about a mile I’m a sort of conical, gelatinous mess and anyone close by start tutting as they get bit of my most extraneous parts all over their shoes. It’s
most embarrassing.

Yes. No. Maybe.

Few things are as irritating as a poster putting their whole OP in the title box.

Yes!! Supermarket chatters who block the entire aisle should be publicly shamed. Or get a custard pie in the kisser.

I take a large dog with me - he certainly wont change course. But not being a knobhead myself I do make sure he is not in anyones way/ pull him to the side if necessary.

Really annoyed by the couples holding each other's hands who can't let go of each other even for 30 secs.

Don’t get me started on the fuckwits who stand in the middle of the platform in busy tube stations then look startled when people brush past them, And I don’t care if they are tourists. Does visiting another city or country mean you take leave of common sense? Thankfully I only commute to work a couple of times a month.

@OsfameronTanamoril I think there is something mentally deficient about those hand holding couples.

No, I am someone who will stand still and make them move around me. Face completely neutral, no eye contact. Works a treat.

True.

I enjoyed your work in The Substance.

Not in the last few hours

I prefer it to ones with no clue to the subject

Could you move to somewhere less attractive and popular?

@CurdinHenry Oh yes!

I'm middle aged, small, quite dumpy. That makes me a) invisible to other people, but also b) quite a solid immovable object.

When I see this coming towards me, I stop right where I am in the middle of the path. Mostly people glance up at the last minute and move - looking a bit surprised that I haven't made myself into a diminutive creature and squashed myself against a wall or steeped into moving traffic (I always say thank you), sometimes they knock into me. In the latter case they usually apologise.

In my head I'm shouting "get off your phone!" or "look where you're going!" but I've found that saying that out loud can get you a bit of aggro. Not worth it. Better to smile beatifically.

I did my post doc at Oxford and I can’t quite explain how irritating these groups are. It is incessant and when you live there, it becomes an irritating part of your day along with tourists generally who will just stop suddenly without warning.

Oxford or York by per chance? Both are utter nightmares for this.

You need to cultivate pointy elbows (i..e stick them out at 90 degrees angle) and PLOUGH through.

I now say 'Beep Beep' and plough through.

😁Love this.

My friend had an interesting activation code thrown at her in America somewhere from a perimenopausal equivalent man - move motherfucker! 😁And reader - she did!

I am so fed up with it that I have started throwing out a cheery 'excuse you!' as I go through or if it's someone standing in the middle of a path and seemingly oblivious to everyone else, 'that's not a very sensible place to stand, is it?' as I go past.

Patriarchy chicken.

Once you start to play, you see it everywhere!

And people who stop at the top of escalators to read their phones. Always one at London Bridge Station!

My experience is that walker/rambler groups are the worse for this. You'd think that if they are "Professional" walkers, they'd have common sense to go into narrower formation when other people are on the same path, but most of the time, they just plough on, assuming they have some kind of God given right to the entire width of the path, and that everyone else will leap out of their way. I use to move aside for them, but not any more. I stand my ground and they genuinely look surprised that they have to go into single file to pass me, row after row of them, often not even looking where they're going, so when the person in front goes into single file, they seem shocked to see me as an obstacle in "their" way!

And the tourists who used to suddenly stop on the pavement at the top of the stairs to the tube.
Overseas male students used to take up the whole path to smoke.i used to walk up to the,m, pause, do a very obvious 90 degree turn to go kntomthe road to avoid them. They didnt notice.

Tourists go where there is beauty and history Are they not allowed to look at it?

Yes, me too!