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?

I hate it. They always expect us to walk into the road with our dog just so they can take up the whole pavement. I've started to loudly say "excuse me" and walk straight through them now. Two abreast with prams on a narrow village pavement is also a frequent issue. If we stop the dog to let them pass they rarely even say thanks. Pavement etiquette is awful.

How dare you use their streets? If you're over 21, it's over, you're not cool, and how dare you exist?

I usually end up blinking first and walking in the road.
And then as I pass them involuntary say "you're welcome". No doubt they think I've got some form of tourettes, but the pettiness of it makes me feel better.

Oh these people piss me off, I am a wheelchair user - wheelchairs, power or manual, cannot simply 'sidestep' or squeeze past narrow gaps, and the people who budge up.. but just half an inch extra on the KERB side so to go past I need to... fall in the road. They can absolutely get in the fucking sea.

I play chicken with them, if they are phone-zombies, I will call 'excuse me'... not for their safety but because I have had a phone zombie land in my lap and my chair is not built for that sort of extreme sport.

Otherwise, I just refuse to yield, hold my line and eeeeeeeeeeeventually it dawns on them that squishy flesh vs nearly 200kg of power wheelchair is not a collision they'll come out well from, and they move.

I get tutting and grumping but when I used to try to pre-empt them and move out of their way, I'd get a similar response anyway!

If I am out with my friend, also a power wheelchair user, we tend to take it in turns, so sometimes one of us drops back to go past people in single file, sometimes we don't and they can pass us single file - depends on the context really (we generally avoid running over children, elderly folks, those with mobility issues).

Gosh I'm sorry. This sounds like a hellish existence quite honestly. Does it hurt when people step in you?

I used to move for these people

Thankfully, menopausal rage has put an end to that

I don't think I was cool even when I was under 21 😥.

Just plain old selfishness. Same people who think it’s OK to play music from their phones in public. It’s their world and we’re just living in it.

It’s not just couples. I had two friends glare at me when I refused to step in to the road -‘We’re having a conversation?’

Yeah, that sounds like me. Bigly time.

We live in a town that is a sort of provincial day trip destination primarily for slightly older 'girls days out' as we have a lot of nice bars and boutiques, and groups of well to do Boden and Phase Eight clad ladies who've had one too many proseccos are the absolute worst for this.

The elderly, inform and young children aside, I walk straight into them with a very curt raised voice EXCUSE ME, and generally every single one looks really shocked as they scatter like skittles . Howwww can they not have noticed they are taking up the entire width of the pavement?!

See also people looking at their phones who assume everyone else will notice them and change course - I don't.

No, but someone once tried to suggest I paid their dry cleaning bill.

There’s a group of 4-5 women who regularly do this across the width of a park path, leaving no room for anyone on either direction.

x x x x

When the normal format, which their husbands walk in, would be

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Why does anyone have to go in the road. Just stop and let them pass

Sure, provided they don’t just suddenly stop dead in their tracks on a busy and most often extremely narrow street. Also please don’t stand in the road to get pics for Instagram.

No- a Cornish town. The actual town isn’t pretty, but seems to attract so many tourists.

The people who walk dogs on an extended lead so the dog is on the other side of the path. Am I supposed to jump over the lead? I was always taught to keep dogs on a short lead while passing others, seems people haven't got that memo now.

What is the best way to stop to look at stuff?

The (not) like pate line made me laugh, OP!

Move to one side? This isn't difficult. Not difficult to be aware of others around you either.

What are you talking about? I'm referring to people five abreast on a village pavement expecting me to walk in the road to go past them...

If i saw 5 people abreast i would stop at the side of the pavement and let them past. No need to go in the road

I don't know....I don't think this is a young person thing. I live in an area very popular with retirees so most of the people I see doing this are elderly.

I think this is a personality and manners issue tbh

I have regular dealings in York so can confirm. I have fantasies about donning American football clobber and just charging straight through the tour groups that expand to take up all available pavement space.

Another one that does my head in is when I'm out running along a single-track footpath in the hills, one or more people are stopped by the side of the path having a bite to eat or whatever, they see me coming from miles off, see that I'm running and thus moving quicker than they will be, but nevertheless seconds before I reach them they sling their rucksack on and start walking in the same direction I'm going, thus blocking the path and getting all huffy when I ask if I can get past. Just why?

I once did a "time trial" run with DH just ahead of me setting the pace. All I had to do was follow just behind him. It was really weird not constantly planning and thinking ahead about how to get past everyone else using the park and constantly puffing "excuse me". They just saw 6ft of man in a neon top and spontaneously moved out of his way. 🤯
Really surreal.

It's not the neon top. I'm apparently still invisible in neon and with flashing lights 🤷‍♀️