WhiteWomanWalking: A New Source of National Racism

Yeah, so this black guy is complaining that white women do not move out of his way when he's walking (actually, he specifies that he thinks that correct walking etiquette is for both parties to slightly deviate out of each other's way), and the New York Times thinks this is proof that most white women in New York City are racist.

Well, most progressives are racist, more racist than almost anybody, but put that off for now.

Back in college, a friend of mine, who was a giant, and I don't mean fat, I mean over six and a half feet tall of threatening muscle and bone, was always complaining that girls just did not bother to get out of his way at all. He was always the one who'd have to change course. He was annoyed, not just at the discourtesy (I imagine he'd agree with with the "we should both move a half step out of each other's way" rule), but because, as he would say -- being a giant and all -- "What do these 90 pound girls think would happen if I just plowed forth like they do? Who do they imagine would end up on the ground in such a collision?"

I've been noticing this a lot myself lately, and just said to myself -- well, thought to myself, but thought it so hard that it was pre-verbal, ready to be spoken aloud -- "Am I the only person who adjusts his path to avoid collisions with people walking the other way now?"

I did get annoyed at frequently having to make adjustments to avoid collisions that, as far as I could tell, no one else on the street seemed to have much concern about.

And I remembered my friend's 20+ year old complaint.

I'm not sure if the Walking Offenders were mostly women or white. Well, I know they weren't mostly white. Mostly they were Hispanic (just the neighborhood I was in when I noticed it-- not saying all hispanics do this. Just on this day, at this hour.)

Anyway, based on my limited experience:

Yeah, girls in particular seem to not really care about the whole "Colliding bodies" thing when walking down the street. Maybe it's just that men naturally get out of the way, and so they've tended to not even notice the need for small deviations in course.

And maybe men are just better about this whole "we both yield" thing because we know, if someone does not yield, men tend to take that as a challenge -- I own you; I dominate you; what are you gonna do about it, bitch, and wut dat mouth for? -- and we guys know that that sort of thing can quickly escalate in confrontation we probably weren't particularly looking for.

But it doesn't seem to be a racial thing. I'm white, and a lot of nonwhite people seem to be determined to walk a straight line whether someone's on the exact same straight line or not.

It is annoying, thought. And I, much like my giant of a college pal, did begin wondering: Maybe I should just lay down a marker here and walk right on through these other people, these non-yielders.

But anyway, just thought you should know, in addition to Mansplaining, we now have to worry about Whitewomanwalking.

BTW, one day in college, my giant friend was a bit lit up, and two guys --smaller than him, as most men are -- were doing the same no-polite-yielding thing, so out of nowhere, as they approached their inevitable collision, he did not merely permit the collision to go ahead as scheduled, but actually cocked back his hip and shoulder and delivered a full-body, full-strength, head-on body-check to one of the guys, center chest, while, just to make sure the guy knew it was completely intentional, exclaiming "BOOM!"

The guy went fucking flying with this grinning giant yelling "BOOM!" as he spun around the sidewalk and then flopped on to his ass.

My giant friend just said something like "I want to do that literally every single day."

Anyway, people should probably have a better sense of their surroundings and greater politeness in pedestrian yielding because my large friend is still out there and probably delivering the occasional painful shock of Street Decorum to people who annoy him.

Posted by: Ace at 04:47 PM

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1 St

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 04:47 PM (Ri/rl)

2 Where are the white wymen at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at July 21, 2017 04:48 PM (FZYNt)

3 Finally a new thread.

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2017 04:48 PM (9g/6M)

4 Prager was talking about this on his show asking callers to confirm or deny but didn't hear any callers

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2017 04:49 PM (9g/6M)

5 I noticed fat girls do that.

They can't move fast enough to adjust.

Posted by: Jeanne del Norte, ahora con covfefe at July 21, 2017 04:49 PM (B9dAp)

6 Try walking behind 5 Asian girls that are arm in arm, taking up the whole sidewalk.

Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 21, 2017 04:49 PM (Enq6K)

7 Dude ... 6'6" 275lbs and NOBODY gets out of my way. I have to "walk with a purpose" and have a facial expression like I'm about to toss a sucka if I want to throw my alpha status around.

Usually I just use the generic passive-aggressive "pardon meeeeeee" when it happens.

Posted by: Defenestratus at July 21, 2017 04:49 PM (a9n6M)

8 Screw you.

Posted by: North Going Zax at July 21, 2017 04:50 PM (qySNZ)

9 Challenge accepted.

Posted by: South Going Zax at July 21, 2017 04:50 PM (qySNZ)

10 The author has clearly not spent any time walking around Chinatown in SF. No one gets out of the way.

Posted by: Arc at July 21, 2017 04:50 PM (MhEoO)

11 I'm surprised that they don't crash into him because they're looking at their cellphones.
Racist honky bitches!

Posted by: tu3031 at July 21, 2017 04:51 PM (qJhUV)

12 *whispers*
Psssst! People are friendlier outside of NYC, whiny NYT writer
*resumes normal speaking voice*

Gee, that's a shame! Shall I pray for you?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 21, 2017 04:51 PM (NOIQH)

13 lol

Posted by: SMFH at July 21, 2017 04:51 PM (s5Kql)

14 Observation:

Men move for women because a) it's a courtesy to women and b) in today's culture, especially on college campuses, not moving would probably get you hauled in front of a sexual assault committee.

(FWIW, I'm overweight, but carry it well enough that I can slide though a crowd for the most part. So I don't mind that others don't move, I'm usually weaving through a crowd faster than the crowd as a whole is moving because I want the fuck out of the crowd.)

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at July 21, 2017 04:51 PM (dzmBR)

15 This thread is nifty.

Posted by: JT at July 21, 2017 04:51 PM (4UrWm)

16 so, this explains the Somali cop thing?

white woman not yielding?

Posted by: shibumi at July 21, 2017 04:51 PM (aT+Bx)

17 One day I'm going to wear a giant "GET OUT OF MY WAY" shirt and if people see it and don't get out of my way, I'll barge over them. Because. I'm honestly sick of it.

And people not letting you back out of a parking spot by squeezing around you. The humvee doesn't have a backup camera assholes!

Posted by: Defenestratus at July 21, 2017 04:51 PM (a9n6M)

18 I usually yield unless they are on their phones.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 21, 2017 04:51 PM (JJev6)

19 You can always passive aggressively stop right in their path, pretending you are distracted. Just apologize and give them a shit eating grin.

Posted by: fluffy at July 21, 2017 04:52 PM (jw2Xw)

20 >>The author has clearly not spent any time walking around Chinatown in SF. No one gets out of the way.

Try China. It's like you are in a bumper car.

Asians have a much different view of personal space.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 04:52 PM (/tuJf)

21 Yes, tall people can be dominant assholes

I told this 6'5" guy to get out of the way three times... I decide to squeak through anyways and the guy threatened me.

I'm not letting somebody else push me around... getting out of people's way is a COMMON courtesy.

Posted by: Former mass resident at July 21, 2017 04:52 PM (NVmJr)

22 Maybe I should just lay down a marker here and walk right on through these other people, these non-yielders.

It's a bittersweet symphony, this life.

Posted by: Richard Ashcroft at July 21, 2017 04:52 PM (+INtM)

23 That white trash just wants to do a brush bye and pick his pocket.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 04:52 PM (mcI77)

24 I don't move, especially if said twit is face down in the phone...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 21, 2017 04:52 PM (MINbv)

25 I think the intersectional question is whether white transpersyns get out of the way when you approach.

Posted by: Sporkatus at July 21, 2017 04:52 PM (eXSOZ)

26 Some idiot on a bike was coming at me, looking at me, waiting for me to yield. For whatever reason I said fuck it. First of all sidewalk, not bike path. I kept walking and braced for impact. At the last second he veers off into the grass and almost wrecks. Heard a lot of muttered profanity, but nothing else.

I too am a big guy who almost always yields. People suck.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 21, 2017 04:53 PM (RwwCT)

27 Uh, rudeness is not racist. The fact that he only notices when white women don't move out of his way might be though.

Posted by: no good deed at July 21, 2017 04:53 PM (hsb2w)

28 4chan is all over this, btw. NTTAWWT, IYKWIMAITYD

your Window into the Internet

Posted by: Godwin, Darwin & Marx, LLC at July 21, 2017 04:53 PM (ihtYN)

29 May we bump into yo dates?

Posted by: SFGoth at July 21, 2017 04:53 PM (dZ756)

30 From the other post
I canceled my Netflix subscription this week.

They barely had any movies I wanted to see (especially a back catalogue of old movies).

There is a new Castlevania series that they are sponsoring. I watched about 5 minutes of the first episode. Of course now Dracula is an enlightened man of science who is holed up in his castle as a refuge from the ignorant Christian peasants who are being lied to by the local bishop.

Sometimes this is an OK story line (like in Fullmetal Alchemist where the priest is a little more cultish), but I don't have time for modern storylines where the former bad guy is secretly good. It's possible the plot develops and Dracula really is a deceiver, but I doubt the show has that waiting in the wings and I'm not giving it a chance.

Account deleted.
Posted by: goodluckduck at July 21, 2017 04:06 PM (yqvys)

It's fucking stupid, Drakula unleashes the creatures of the night on Humans because he is a man of Science, What? How can you have Evil Creatures and not good ones. They did have a priest bless holy water and it worked.
and it took a WOMAN to get Drakula to come of his castle.

DEVIL IS A PART TIMER did it much better were the Devil loses his powers and has to work at Mcdonalds.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 04:53 PM (dKiJG)

31 20
>>The author has clearly not spent any time walking around Chinatown in SF. No one gets out of the way.

Try China. It's like you are in a bumper car.

Asians have a much different view of personal space.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 04:52 PM (/tuJf)

See my #5....
And BTW JS...I saw your glitter comment on the previous thread.

Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 21, 2017 04:53 PM (Enq6K)

32 I always step to the side. I don't want to bump into anyone else and I sure don't want them bumping into me.

Posted by: bluebell at July 21, 2017 04:53 PM (sTBcq)

33 >>Try China. It's like you are in a bumper car.

>>Asians have a much different view of personal space.

Personal space is raaaaacist!

Posted by: Arc at July 21, 2017 04:53 PM (MhEoO)

34 I have to go around people too. I hate when there are four people walking side by side and they don't let you by.

The streets aren't crowded where I live.

I want to say it's girls that walk in groups side by side. Men make room or switch to single file.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 04:54 PM (Ri/rl)

35 I think all white women should bow and touch their foreheads to their ground three times in front of the guy and so "O. lordly one> i am not fit to gaze upon your greatness./" ?sarc/srac

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2017 04:54 PM (iVOAv)

36 Lizzy is right.
The idiot reporter (but then I repeat myself) really needs to get out of NY and see the real America.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2017 04:54 PM (0tfLf)

37 So women have Walking Path Privilege.

Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 04:54 PM (z/Ubi)

38 It's a bittersweet symphony, this life.

*plays musical accompaniment on tiny violin*

Posted by: Sporkatus at July 21, 2017 04:54 PM (eXSOZ)

39 I don't experience this. Here in a north Atlanta suburb, it seems like everybody gets out of each other's way, and always apologize if there is a bump or was a chance of one.

Posted by: Alana at July 21, 2017 04:54 PM (Fxtu/)

40 If the biggest issue in your life is people bumping into you in a big city or other crowded place, you should be happy.
Besides, you can always cop feels.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at July 21, 2017 04:54 PM (5yg1M)

41 4chan is all over this, btw. NTTAWWT, IYKWIMAITYD
--

That's code, isn't it? You're really saying that 4Chan is helping Trump collude with Russia, aren't you? AREN'T YOU????

Posted by: CNN is ISIS and Proud at July 21, 2017 04:54 PM (aT+Bx)

42 I don't really rtake walks on sidewalks . but I do notice this trend in grocery stores.
carts and people and everything comes to a standstill ..ok I do, they just will do their thing until they are ready to move.

Posted by: willow at July 21, 2017 04:54 PM (v12G8)

43 JackStraw got into the glitter again?

Posted by: bluebell at July 21, 2017 04:55 PM (sTBcq)

44 Old and busted:
"When I walk down the street as a black man, white women intentionally veer out of my way and clutch their purses because they assume I am a criminal. They're so racist! They should just ignore me and not react to my presence!"

New and hot:
"When I walk down the street as a black man, white women just totally ignore me and do NOT veer out of my way! They're so racist! They shouldn't ignore me!"

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 04:55 PM (DQ4Fv)

45 6 Try walking behind 5 Asian girls that are arm in arm, taking up the whole sidewalk.
Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 21, 2017 04:49 PM (Enq6K

Next time yell "GOJIRA!!!!"

That should clear them out of the way.

Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 04:55 PM (z/Ubi)

46 In my experience as well, *most* people don't get out of the way.

And on a good day I'm 6'1" 255 (with what I'm told is an "athletic build" although I'm deeply skeptical of this).

Posted by: filbert at July 21, 2017 04:55 PM (s5o+q)

47 This could have been a Seinfeld episode.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 21, 2017 04:55 PM (+7/1f)

48 Asians have a much different view of personal space.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 04:52 PM (/tuJf)

Tokyo Metro

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 21, 2017 04:56 PM (gwPgz)

49 >>And BTW JS...I saw your glitter comment on the previous thread.

Can't help it, that is one of the funnier things I've heard in a while.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 04:56 PM (/tuJf)

50 If the girls have big boobs I run into them with outstretched hands. I tell them I was sleepwalking.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 21, 2017 04:56 PM (JJev6)

51 20
>>The author has clearly not spent any time walking around Chinatown in SF. No one gets out of the way.

Try China. It's like you are in a bumper car.

Asians have a much different view of personal space.

Posted by: JackStraw

No kidding. As in, "this entire Costco aisle is mine, and I'll just mosey along it taking up as much room as possible, and if I see something that even mildly interests me, I'll just abandon my cart in the middle and go over and inspect it."

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 04:56 PM (LAe3v)

52 so what? Nobody walks anywhere any more

Posted by: Brilliant Insight Guy *** at July 21, 2017 04:56 PM (ihtYN)

53 And on a good day I'm 6'1" 255 (with what I'm told is an "athletic build" although I'm deeply skeptical of this).
Posted by: filbert at July 21, 2017 04:55 PM (s5o+q)
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That's interesting. What are you on a bad day?

Posted by: bluebell at July 21, 2017 04:56 PM (sTBcq)

54 In my experience as well, *most* people don't get out of the way.

Same here.

Posted by: Basement Cat at July 21, 2017 04:56 PM (3C9q2)

55 I walk around with my erect penis in my hand and chicks get out of the way no problem.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2017 04:56 PM (4e+hS)

56 I experience this a lot in grocery stores, but mostly it's really clueless stupid people with their carts in the middle of the aisle, unable to decide what they want to buy.

"Choices are hard."

Sometimes I graze them with my cart, just because I can.

Posted by: shibumi at July 21, 2017 04:56 PM (aT+Bx)

57 I usually do the I move you move a little thing, but when I see someone not moving, I just come to a halt right in front of them, not moving either. When they look up from their phone or realize they have some dude standing in their way, I smile and say "excuse me."

But honestly Napoleon's maxim that one should never ascribe to malice that which is explained by incompetence rules here, I think. Whenever I drive around a major city and get frustrated by traffic, I remind myself that the average IQ is 100. Yes, most people on the road, and on the sidewalk, really are morons. And I don't mean that in the good way.

Posted by: Mx4 at July 21, 2017 04:57 PM (9ZfSN)

58 Anyone who's ever been a food server knows that you always keep to the right.

Posted by: Monkfish at July 21, 2017 04:57 PM (7ciu+)

59 Try China. It's like you are in a bumper car.

Asians have a much different view of personal space.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 04:52 PM (/tuJf)

They really do. They stand way too close.

When we were at Disneyland, our boy was about 5 and groups of Asians were cutting the line, my boy put his arms out blocking the way and told them no cuts.
It was funny. It's what every American was thinking but no one said it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 04:57 PM (Ri/rl)

60 I'm also a good bit taller and heftier than most, and when this was combined with my standard walking around with my head in the clouds frame of mind, it would result in me walking into people a lot. My wife finally got me trained to stop and let other people (meaning her) go first if we were both heading for the same place at the same time, so now I make a conscious effort, and I've gotten much better.

I tried to explain to her "look at these bruises, I walk into furniture and doors all the time too" (I"m a poor judge of the space I will fit through) but that didn't seem to make much difference to her. I've been told I have a high pain threshold; I'd tend to be like that guy who got hit by the bus and got up to go get a drink at the pub.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2017 04:57 PM (mnh4u)

61 >>> I walk around with my erect penis in my hand and chicks get out of the way no problem.

That would also work if you were holding someone else's erect penis.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at July 21, 2017 04:57 PM (5yg1M)

62 I always move to the right side, but if the oncomers don't move to their side, then the game of chicken is on. I am not walking on the grass just to give jollies to some teenage assholes.

I haven't had a confrontation basically because I exude the I Am Single And Might Be Crazy vibe.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at July 21, 2017 04:58 PM (tu5OU)

63 I've noticed this for literally decades, and, even though I sometimes get annoyed by it, I almost always just move out of the way.

Because why not? It doesn't have to mean anything if you don't let it mean anything. And the alternative is bumping into strangers. That's almost never what I'm looking for when I set out on a walk.

Posted by: Kensington at July 21, 2017 04:58 PM (Cw3TC)

64 Heh, zombie, you're probably right! These women are intentionally *not* veering away to prove they're not racists.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 21, 2017 04:58 PM (NOIQH)

65 Next time yell "GOJIRA!!!!"

That should clear them out of the way.
Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 04:55 PM (z/Ubi)

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LOL!

Posted by: SMFH at July 21, 2017 04:58 PM (s5Kql)

66 56 I experience this a lot in grocery stores

I think it's the Eurotrash that are here. They drive on the left side of the road over there.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 04:58 PM (mcI77)

67 I yield for ladies because I'm a gentleman, that's how I was raised.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2017 04:58 PM (4e+hS)

68 >>> I walk around with my erect penis in my hand and chicks get out of the way no problem.

My priapism works the same way for me.

Posted by: Arc at July 21, 2017 04:58 PM (MhEoO)

69 No, it's cuz those white bitches secretly want you!
Feel better now?

Posted by: tu3031 at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (qJhUV)

70 Russia, aren't you? AREN'T YOU????

Posted by: CNN is ISIS and Proud at July 21, 2017 04:54 PM (aT+Bx)

yes. Yes I am. Spasibo...

Posted by: Godwin, Darwin & Marx, LLC at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (ihtYN)

71 Here's a thing not mentioned in the article that those of you in flyover country may not know about:

It is now a noticeable "thing" in liberal urban areas for everyone to be intentionally rude. and everybody constantly clogs up the sidewalk, and nobody ever gets out of anybody's way any more. And they are all doing it on purpose, as a way of asserting their social superiority by "dominating the physical space." I see it daily. And the more obviously SJWish the person is, the more like the person acts like this. It is the New Normal in liberal cities. And it has nothing to do with race. This guy is just viewing the world through his Minority Grievance Glasses.

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (DQ4Fv)

72 I canceled my Netflix subscription this week.

They do seem to have gone dramatically downhill, don't they? They have some good shows, but as far as movies are concerned, it's a desert. Or perhaps HWood simply isn't producing anything I want to see, me not being a brain-damaged 12 year old boy.

Although Valerian looks like it has potential.

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (LAe3v)

73 I chalk this up to people being stupid, discourteous and/or having their heads up their asses instead of being even slightly aware of their surroundings.

Posted by: Insomniac, Pimp Hand of the Patriarchy at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (0mRoj)

74 Asians have a much different view of personal space.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 04:52 PM (/tuJf)

No crap, I watched a video of a guy's visit to Shanghai Disneyland and waiting in line people gave ZERO personal space, it's weird and they have ZERO manners and Peeing and shiting in Puplic is still a thing. He nearly stepped in poop walking around.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (dKiJG)

75
I have a policy of stopping when my collision avoidance software says, 'collision likely'.

Not too many then take on the challenge. They step right. Annoyed.

Just like aversion is the new attraction, rudeness is the new pleasantry.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (EgwCt)

76 I think the important thing to remember is that Stupid Kamikaze Moo behavior can be exhibited by the female of nearly any race. There's just a lot more Kamikaze Moo of a white variety by mass than other types.

Posted by: Sporkatus at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (eXSOZ)

77 Posted by: Hrothgar at July 21, 2017 04:44 PM (gwPgz)

From previous thread. Thanks, Hrothgar . That was a cute story

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (iVOAv)

78 42 I don't really rtake walks on sidewalks . but I do notice this trend in grocery stores.
carts and people and everything comes to a standstill ..ok I do, they just will do their thing until they are ready to move.
Posted by: willow at July 21, 2017 04:54 PM (v12G

Most of the time in grocery stores people tend to follow the path of allowing room for carts to pass by them if they stopped or you can have proper traffic flow. And when someone realizes that they are blocking you from getting by they apologize.

About the only time I deal with a hold up is when you are waiting for them to get out of the way so you can get what you want from the same spot they are, like in the dairy area.

Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (z/Ubi)

79 My son is 6'5", 240#. He moves around people otherwise he'd plow them over.

Most men have longer legs than women, or at least a longer stride. Men have always had to shorten their stride to walk alongside most women. Why won't they overtake them walking down the street? Two steps to my three or four steps is definitely going to cover more ground and I am going to "be in the way".

Now if you are talking about the oblivious to life people who just meander and stop wherever (outside of Times Square I have not seen that much in NYC), then yeah... get the heck outta the way.

Posted by: Ann at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (jtHQy)

80
I've noticed this too.My big pet peeve ( pun intended ) is when they are also walking a dog basically taking up the entire sidewalk and they don't bother to rein in the leash so their dog isn't in the way of you going around them

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (lKyWE)

81 Just stop right in your tracks and make them walk around you.

Throw in an Excuse You for bonus points.

Posted by: DaveA at July 21, 2017 05:00 PM (FhXTo)

82 I just get the hell out of the way because I don't want to get plowed into.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:00 PM (CNHr1)

83

The chancellor of California’s community college system said he wants to abolish the college algebra requirement and called it a “civil rights issue” in a Wednesday interview.

Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor of California Community Colleges, made the argument while speaking with NPR. He pegged algebraas overly burdensome due to the disproportionate rate at which it prevents students from graduating from community colleges; nearly 50 percent of community college students do not complete their math requirement.

“This is a civil rights issue, but this is also something that plagues all Americans — particularly low-income Americans,” said Oakley. “If you think about all the underemployed or unemployed Americans in this country who cannot connect to a job in this economy — which is unforgiving of those students who don’t have a credential — the biggest barrier for them is this algebra requirement. It’s what has kept them from achieving a credential.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2017 05:00 PM (IqV8l)

84 Read somewhere some time back the the way to overcome this problem is by focusing one's gaze over the shoulder of the person in your path, in the distance. This sends the signal to the other pedestrian of what your intended path is, and unless they are trying to collide with you they will adjust their path. Been doing this ever since, and rarely do I have to physically move over to make way for someone any more. I suspect your big friend is giving off uncertain signals, but receives the clear ones from others, so he subconsciously always yields right of way.

Posted by: Sambo at July 21, 2017 05:00 PM (CwNIZ)

85 And on a good day I'm 6'1" 255 (with what I'm told is an "athletic build" although I'm deeply skeptical of this).
Posted by: filbert at July 21, 2017 04:55 PM (s5o+q)
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That's interesting. What are you on a bad day?

Posted by: bluebell at July 21, 2017 04:56 PM (sTBcq)

Heavier.

Posted by: filbert at July 21, 2017 05:00 PM (s5o+q)

86 55
I walk around with my erect penis in my hand and chicks get out of the way no problem.

Posted by: Dr Spank

But how far can you go in 30 seconds?

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:00 PM (LAe3v)

87 56 I experience this a lot in grocery stores, but mostly it's really clueless stupid people with their carts in the middle of the aisle, unable to decide what they want to buy.

"Choices are hard."

Sometimes I graze them with my cart, just because I can.
Posted by: shibumi at July 21, 2017 04:56 PM (aT+Bx)

*****

I s'pose saying something like Shopping while Asian would be racists huh?
Ok.
I won't.

But Wegmans in Sterling VA....DAMN!!!! It's worse than the roads.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2017 05:01 PM (0tfLf)

88 I'm thinking about dropping Netflix as well, I was going to watch Once Upon A Time In The West and it was dropped from my service.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2017 05:01 PM (4e+hS)

89 Try China. It's like you are in a bumper car.

Asians have a much different view of personal space.

Posted by: JackStraw

You're not kidding....and they're rude as hell about it. We use to call it the 'rice line' mentality.

And they drive the same way.

Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 21, 2017 05:01 PM (Enq6K)

90 I shaved my hair into a mohawk my junior year in college.

I'm 6' 3" and particularly back then was often told my resting face looked either serious or angry.

Anyway I became aware after awhile that I was making it to class earlier than normal, on a consistent basis.

And then I realized that no matter where I walked, the crowd was opening before me.

I think I did plenty of polite avoiding when walking through crowds, but my change of appearance meant I didn't have too, so I zoomed on through.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 21, 2017 05:01 PM (yL25O)

91 Heavier.
Posted by: filbert at July 21, 2017 05:00 PM (s5o+q)
----------

Ah. I was hoping you could make yourself taller or shorter. I was going to ask how you did that.

Posted by: bluebell at July 21, 2017 05:01 PM (sTBcq)

92 I walk around with my erect penis in my hand and chicks get out of the way no problem.

Posted by: Dr Spank

But how far can you go in 30 seconds?

Posted by: pep

I have a gun in the other hand.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2017 05:01 PM (4e+hS)

93 In Texas , cars must yield to pedestrians in parking lot's egress ingress to the store.

Is that everywhere?

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 21, 2017 05:01 PM (JJev6)

94 I saw Stupid Kamikaze Moo open for Penis In Hand just last week.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 05:01 PM (mcI77)

95 Where can I get a hold of this giant friend of yours?

Posted by: Shep Smith at July 21, 2017 05:02 PM (q177U)

96 You want to see people get out of your way? Pretend you are blind.

A number of years ago my ex and I went to one of those medieval fares they run in MA every fall. They had always let dogs in so we brought our Golden along.

Got in line for tickets and they had a brand new No Dogs sign. So I did what any moron would do, tossed on my sunglasses and shortened the dog leash and pretended he was a guide dog.

Everywhere I walked it was like the Red Sea parting. There was even a crowd at the jousting event and, get this, people got out of the way and let me walk right to the front row. I felt like saying, helloooo I'm blind but I wanted to watch the jousting.

Pro-tip, if you try this don't use an overly friendly Golden. Damn dog kept trying to blow my cover by zig zagging around to meet everyone.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 05:02 PM (/tuJf)

97 Next time yell "GOJIRA!!!!"

That should clear them out of the way.

Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 04:55 PM (z/Ubi)

LOL! I wish I had!

Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 21, 2017 05:02 PM (Enq6K)

98 I am a tall, athletically built woman, and people run into me all the time. It's like the bigger you are, the more invisible you become on the sidewalk. I particularly enjoy it when you stop for someone to cross the street, and they do not increase their speed one bit. They just saunter along like they aren't backing up traffic.

Posted by: no good deed at July 21, 2017 05:02 PM (hsb2w)

99 64 Heh, zombie, you're probably right! These women are intentionally *not* veering away to prove they're not racists.
Posted by: Lizzy

EXACTLY!

It's so obvious. White liberals have been berated by blacks for YEARS for "reacting" when they see a black man. So, now they go to great effort to NOT react. Yet suddenly -- that's the new form of racism, not reacting!

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:02 PM (DQ4Fv)

100 I admit sometimes when i'm driving down a 2 lane road and someone is coming at me, hogging the center line, I move to hog the center line too just to see what they think about it. If I wasn't in a pickup I wouldn't try it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2017 05:03 PM (mnh4u)

101 When you see someone coming that doesn't seem to want to yield just stop turn 90 dg one way or the other and become preoccupied with doing something, mainly never act like you see them coming. Make them go around you. It works every time.

Posted by: Sennacherib at July 21, 2017 05:03 PM (Y+/Tj)

102 >>>In Texas , cars must yield to pedestrians in parking lot's egress ingress to the store.

Is that everywhere?

...

I don't know if it's a rule but I do notice a lot of people who don't give many fucks about walking in front of a moving car in parking lots. Or on the street, for that matter.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:03 PM (8rNrN)

103 >>And the more obviously SJWish the person is, the more like the person acts like this. It is the New Normal in liberal cities.

Not kidding, I've noticed this when I've gone to Whole Foods. I prefer my local grocery because people are so polite - get stuff off the top shelf for us shorties, help others find something, etc. At Whole Foods you get the seemingly oblivioso who leaves their cart in the middle of the aisle and then blocks traffic while inspecting the label of every brand of canned beans or whatever...

Posted by: Lizzy at July 21, 2017 05:03 PM (NOIQH)

104
The idiot reporter (but then I repeat myself) really needs to get out of NY and see the real America.
Posted by: Diogenes

I don't want her anywhere near real America.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2017 05:03 PM (IqV8l)

105 They really do. They stand way too close.

When we were at Disneyland, our boy was about 5 and groups of Asians were cutting the line, my boy put his arms out blocking the way and told them no cuts.
It was funny. It's what every American was thinking but no one said it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 04:57 PM (Ri/rl)

Congratulations on raising a Racist.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 05:03 PM (dKiJG)

106 Rats, 81 beat me to it!

Posted by: Sennacherib at July 21, 2017 05:04 PM (Y+/Tj)

107 "Am I the only person who adjusts his path to avoid collisions with people walking the other way now?"

If you want to assert your territorial imperative just stop and stand in place looking in detached contemplation as if you are trying to remember something. Then people will walk around you. It takes longer to get where you want to go but if you have the time it gives you some feeling of control on occasion. I especially like to do it to people who are yapping away on their cell phone.

Posted by: DaveD at July 21, 2017 05:04 PM (P5fqQ)

108 Could someone do me a ginormous favor? Click on my nic it will take you to my Etsy shop. Can you tell me when you are looking at an item if the price says it includes shipping? Etsy is doing some kind of test without bothering to tell people what they are doing they went in their shop and added shipping to every item. I saw it when I logged in at work. I'm at home now and I just checked and the price is the old price.. does NOT include shipping. Someone said it depends on the browser you are using? This is some kind of fucked up if you ask me. Just look and let me know. I'm kind of livid right now. Thanks.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:04 PM (CNHr1)

109 I can buy that we men are less likely to get out of the way under the assumption that a gentleman would move instead. I generally try to make room but I don't live n NYC either so *most* people try to accommodate others. Most of the rest of the world seems pretty uninterested in moving out of the way though, based on my admittedly limited foreign experience.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 21, 2017 05:04 PM (rp9xB)

110 BREAKING NEWS: Sean Spicer's house just creaked a bit bystanders say. Now we return you to the somewhat-open thread.

Posted by: andycanuck #CNNisISIS at July 21, 2017 05:05 PM (nlbfN)

111 Netflix has gotten crappier over the last couple of years, but it's still capable of pleasantly surprising me sometimes, like when "Rogue One" popped up a couple of days ago. Not a documentary about "Rogue One" or some weird one-off, but "Rogue One" itself, which I'm moderately interested in watching.

Posted by: Kensington at July 21, 2017 05:05 PM (Cw3TC)

112 >>>I am a tall, athletically built woman, and people run into me all the time. It's like the bigger you are, the more invisible you become on the sidewalk.

interesting.

I think that was my friend's complaint. By being so visible, apparently he became invisible. Or everyone thought he should yield just because he was bigger.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:05 PM (8rNrN)

113
I don't know if it's a rule but I do notice a lot of people who don't give many fucks about walking in front of a moving car in parking lots. Or on the street, for that matter.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:03 PM (8rNrN)

or some fat fuck trundling down to their car in the MIDDLE OF THE LANE!

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 05:05 PM (mcI77)

114 "Ah. I was hoping you could make yourself taller or shorter. I was going to ask how you did that"

SHRINKAGE! WOMEN KNOW ABOUT SHRINKAGE, DON'T THEY???

Posted by: George Costanza at July 21, 2017 05:05 PM (mnh4u)

115 From previous thread. Thanks, Hrothgar . That was a cute story

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (iVOAv)

Glad you saw it. You'd like Buzzions response there!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 21, 2017 05:05 PM (gwPgz)

116 I would ask my husband to do it but he's taking a nap, lol!

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:05 PM (CNHr1)

117 92 I walk around with my erect penis in my hand and chicks get out of the way no problem.

Posted by: Dr Spank

*****

Do you call this glad-handing?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2017 05:06 PM (0tfLf)

118 111 Netflix has gotten crappier over the last couple of years, but it's still capable of pleasantly surprising me sometimes, like when "Rogue One" popped up a couple of days ago. Not a documentary about "Rogue One" or some weird one-off, but "Rogue One" itself, which I'm moderately interested in watching.
Posted by: Kensington

Oh goody, can we have a throwback Friday discussion on Rogue One?

Posted by: Rick in SK at July 21, 2017 05:06 PM (FZYNt)

119 108 Could someone do me a ginormous favor? Click on my nic it will take you to my Etsy shop. Can you tell me when you are looking at an item if the price says it includes shipping? Etsy is doing some kind of test without bothering to tell people what they are doing they went in their shop and added shipping to every item. I saw it when I logged in at work. I'm at home now and I just checked and the price is the old price.. does NOT include shipping. Someone said it depends on the browser you are using? This is some kind of fucked up if you ask me. Just look and let me know. I'm kind of livid right now. Thanks.
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:04 PM (CNHr1)

Shipping included on all 4 items (and you are now shipping to Canada!)

Posted by: Ann at July 21, 2017 05:06 PM (jtHQy)

120 Try China. It's like you are in a bumper car.

Asians have a much different view of personal space.

Posted by: JackStraw

Both sons worked in Yellowstone. Bot learned to dread the Chinese tour buses arriving to invade the gifts shops and geyser basins.

They both agreed that the Japanese were much better.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 21, 2017 05:06 PM (RwwCT)

121 Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 04:54 PM (z/Ubi)

Walking Path privilege. should be Faxchohantas other Native American name

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2017 05:06 PM (iVOAv)

122 I find that if you want people to give you plenty of space when walking then all you need to do is randomly stop dead in your tracks, look down for 3 seconds, then look straight ahead and shout "POTATO SALAD," and continue walking as if nothing odd happened.

Plenty of sidewalk room.

Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (z/Ubi)

123
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 21, 2017 05:04 PM (rp9xB)

The only people that don't seem to make room in my experience are oblivious girls.

I don't live in a city though.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (Ri/rl)

124 go away or I'll call the brute squad!

I'm on the brute squad

... you are the brute squad!

ever imagine zombie andre the giant pile driving morons that come up with shit like mansplaining and whitewomanwalking and the rest of that nonsense?

Posted by: bored383 at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (70HTk)

125 Holy shit, Rogue One is on Netflix. Really liked that movie. Hopefully they'll come out with Rogue II.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (4e+hS)

126 I'm 6'5" 350+ lbs, and I learned to walk with a purpose and never, ever yield while aboard Navy aircraft carriers. There are lots of electrical and what not doo-dads sticking out from the wall in the passageways below decks, and I always caught one when I tried to move for someone. This went on for about a month on my first ship. After one particularly bad bruise, I said screw it, and just plowed through people. That was my policy for the next 16 years.

Quickest way to get from point A to B was to be on my six as I walked there.

I have maintained this policy post retirement. I am triple the mass of most women, so if they want to try me, they can bounce off like everyone else does.

I
Do
Not
Care.

Posted by: Unknownsailor at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (dxou8)

127 Interesting. I noticed something myself when I was in college when I did a lot of walking everywhere. I didn't attach any racial or sexual motives though (obviously my white guy privilege speaking here). But I noticed that body language mattered a lot when it comes to who moves first. My natural inclination is to give a wide birth. I'm not a large man. But when I made up my Mind not to move, I could get everyone to move out of my way. The only exception was people who were clearly not paying attention to their surroundings and were engrossed on conversation,

Posted by: Joe, living mobile at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (Zcp07)

128 >>Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor of California Community Colleges, made the
argument while speaking with NPR. He pegged algebraas overly burdensome...

"Eloy"

That's just too perfect.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (NOIQH)

129 Alan Dean Foster had a lizard-like alien race who'd have three walking paths.

One for each direction of travel only and the middle for either direction--but it was the "fighting path."

That is, anyone on the fighting path agreed to a quick bout with anyone coming the other direction.

Posted by: RoyalOil at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (W1XyZ)

130
You want to see people get out of your way? Pretend you are blind.

Where I live if you walk down the street with a lit cigarette they'll cross the street in a panic to get out of your way.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (lKyWE)

131 Niagara Falls, Maid of the Mist. Our family was first group on. We headed up top and grab railing, front and center. Wife and I, with kiddos between. Wife and I both got sharp elbow treatment ftom a group of ladies of non- North American ancestry, the entire trip.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (JyFLk)

132 One trick I've learned working in a crowded area in walking facing forward but walking at a fairly steep side angle. The gait is slightly odd but it's very effective for moving through crowds.

Posted by: Max Power at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (q177U)

133 I'm not particularly big (5'-11"), but if I'm in the mood, I'll give the full stop and just wait for them to walk around me while I glare condescendingly.

Posted by: Memories at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (mwcEF)

134 122
I find that if you want people to give you plenty of space when walking
then all you need to do is randomly stop dead in your tracks, look down
for 3 seconds, then look straight ahead and shout "POTATO SALAD," and
continue walking as if nothing odd happened.

That was you?!!!!!

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (LAe3v)

135 I'm a large mammal. I try to be accommodating and adjust for people but some days I don't feel like being the one that moves.

Results vary. Not too many collisions, though. I don't body check people but I have permitted people to bounce off me.

If I'm dressed 'nicely', there are the usual confusions and apologies.

But if I'm in a bad mood and wearing black, most people get out of my way. Might be a size/attitude thing.

I try not to be a dick but some days I'm just grumpy about sidestepping for people on phones all the frelling time.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (3OIiX)

136 I don't know if it's a rule but I do notice a lot of people who don't give many fucks about walking in front of a moving car in parking lots.

Oh geez, this. Happens to me all the time. Oblivious dumbasses just leisurely strolling their way right in front of my moving 4500 pound SUV.

Posted by: Insomniac, Pimp Hand of the Patriarchy at July 21, 2017 05:08 PM (0mRoj)

137 I'm a white woman and I complain in my head all the time that I'm always the one who seems to have to move out of others' way.

I think it can be explained two ways.

One is it's a self centered asshole thing. Most people are totally oblivious and self oriented, so they simply don't notice their surroundings and yes if you didn't move you both would collide.

Second may be an innate social instinct thing, the things rad fems and leftists in general deny exist. Ninety pound girls think a six foot seven gentleman should move for her because she's a lady.

Even though most girls don't act like ladies and most men don't act like gentlemen nowadays. Nevertheless those instincts prevail when someone is on autopilot--as the oblivious often are.

Posted by: PBJ1515 at July 21, 2017 05:08 PM (PsdJu)

138 Buzzion , yes I also get that, and usually just smile and ask if I can help them find what they're looking for.

grocery shopping is one of the yuckiest experiences, I always have sticker shock. and where's the Beef that doesn't cost and arm and a leg?

Posted by: willow at July 21, 2017 05:08 PM (v12G8)

139 The person who cares the least wins, basically

Posted by: Joe, living mobile at July 21, 2017 05:08 PM (Zcp07)

140 so what? Nobody walks anywhere any more
Posted by: Brilliant Insight Guy ***

Not if I can help it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2017 05:08 PM (W4LFA)

141 Yes Julie, it says "Shipping Included" on almost everything. I'm using Chrome.

I was wondering where the Deplorable Jewels are, though.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2017 05:08 PM (mnh4u)

142 >>I find that if you want people to give you plenty of space when walking then all you need to do is randomly stop dead in your tracks, look down for 3 seconds, then look straight ahead and shout "POTATO SALAD," and continue walking as if nothing odd happened.

>>Plenty of sidewalk room.

No, I'm Tater Salad!

Posted by: Ron White at July 21, 2017 05:08 PM (MhEoO)

143 Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:04 PM (CNHr1)

It includes shipping. I'm using Safari/IPad.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:09 PM (Ri/rl)

144 Or everyone thought he should yield just because he was bigger.

That may be it. I've always thought internally, "I know you can see me. I'm a giant!"

Posted by: no good deed at July 21, 2017 05:09 PM (hsb2w)

145 Jewells, I don't see that it says it includes shipping but not sure where it would say that exactly. Next to the price?

Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 21, 2017 05:09 PM (Enq6K)

146 anyway I think because i'm shorter people don't mind trying to walk over me, or ignore me.

Posted by: willow at July 21, 2017 05:09 PM (v12G8)

147 89 Try China. It's like you are in a bumper car.

Asians have a much different view of personal space.

Posted by: JackStraw

You're not kidding....and they're rude as hell about it. We use to call it the 'rice line' mentality.

And they drive the same way.

Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 21, 2017 05:01 PM (Enq6K)

It's the Chinese that do this and other Asians hate the way they act. They nearly started a riot at the Thialand airport when a group of Chinese tourists just cut in front of the line.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 05:09 PM (dKiJG)

148 �I admit sometimes when i'm driving down a 2 lane road and someone is coming at me, hogging the center line, I move to hog the center line too just to see what they think about it. If I wasn't in a pickup I wouldn't try it.Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2017 05:03 PM (mnh4u)

I do that too. I think the primitive brain, even that of liberals, registers some sort of 'head on collision alert! ' to the stupid person in the opposing lane. Wakes them up out of their daze.

Hasn't failed yet in getting the other car where it belongs.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 21, 2017 05:09 PM (EgwCt)

149 Yeah, I've noticed this, but not with white women, just women in general. Especially if there's two or more. They'll walk alongside each other and will not move together just a bit to let you pass, as if you're under obligation to spread eagle against the building or step into traffic. Well, sorry ladies, but chivalry is dead, and it wasn't our side that demanded it be sent to the guillotine.

Posted by: Clay, unimpressed with your wokeness at July 21, 2017 05:09 PM (c6Sas)

150 Try walking behind 5 Asian girls that are arm in arm, taking up the whole sidewalk.

Has anyone else noticed Asian girls scooting through doors without touching them to keep them open? Or touching the door, but not pushing on it at all?

So what I'd call normal behavior is this as you're walking through a self closing door. Either you've opened it yourself or it was already open when you got there. You push the door as you're walking through so the door remains open as you go. If there is a person a couple steps behind you, you pause while holding the door, then continue walking as they reach out their hand to keep the door open.

The abnormal, irritating behavior is rather than making a minimal effort to keep the door open for the person behind you, you force them to open it themselves.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2017 05:09 PM (jhqr1)

151 98
I am a tall, athletically built woman, and people run into me all the
time...

Posted by: no good deed

Gain weight and get uglier and you'll be fine.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2017 05:10 PM (4e+hS)

152 My natural inclination is to give a wide birth.

Me too.

Posted by: Andre the Giant's Mom at July 21, 2017 05:10 PM (LAe3v)

153 I need someone to mansplain this thread to me.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:10 PM (PY9jH)

154 Jewells, I just clicked and saw child's formal bracelet, $10.65, shipping included. Brave browser. Does that help?

Posted by: bluebell at July 21, 2017 05:10 PM (sTBcq)

155 This would happen if women stayed a half pace behind their male escort like God intended.

...please don't raptor me.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at July 21, 2017 05:10 PM (etv5d)

156 >>>eresting. I noticed something myself when I was in college when I did a lot of walking everywhere. I didn't attach any racial or sexual motives though (obviously my white guy privilege speaking here). But I noticed that body language mattered a lot when it comes to who moves first. My natural inclination is to give a wide birth. I'm not a large man. But when I made up my Mind not to move, I could get everyone to move out of my way. The only exception was people who were clearly not paying attention to their surroundings and were engrossed on conversation,

...

maybe it's just that some people detect the collision faster and avoid it faster, so that the other party -- the Assholes, let's call them - never feel the need to do so.

But to me, this is a situation where you do a reciprocal adjustment, just to show courtesy, even if it's no longer really necessary.

Or you give a nod or signal, like when someone lets you merge in traffic.

SOMETHING.

Or else you get the BOOM, maybe.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:10 PM (8rNrN)

157 Men are supposed to step out of the way for women on the sidewalk. This is basic manners.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 21, 2017 05:10 PM (rZ+mb)

158
Most of the time in grocery stores people tend to follow the path of allowing room for carts to pass by them if they stopped or you can have proper traffic flow. And when someone realizes that they are blocking you from getting by they apologize.

About the only time I deal with a hold up is when you are waiting for them to get out of the way so you can get what you want from the same spot they are, like in the dairy area.

Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 04:59 PM (z/Ubi)

When I moved to TX a couple of years ago, I was surprised to find that this isn't true here. REALLY surprised, because in damn near every other area, Texans generally have their shit together, especially compared to the nimrods I was used to from SoCal.

I dunno if it's just the folks in this town or if it's a general thing, but I can just look at someone at the far end of the aisle at HEB and I know for a fact that they're going to stop their cart exactly opposite the old lady looking at soup, preventing anyone from passing. And the more people in the aisle, the more likely that they'll stop in the worst possible place.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 21, 2017 05:10 PM (veoSD)

159 I'm six foot 185lb but I'm starting to feel small around here right now.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 21, 2017 05:11 PM (JJev6)

160 I guarandamntee you, when a white woman sees OJ approaching her on a sidewalk in Miami, if she's got half a brain, she'll give him the whole sidewalk.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:11 PM (PY9jH)

161 There's an old Seinfeld bit where the parrokeet gets out of the cage and flies straight into the mirrored closet door - and smack headon into himself.

Seinfeld comments that you would think the parrokeet would have swerved or zigged at the last minute. But no. Full steam ahead.

Conclusion: Some wymyn are bird brains.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 21, 2017 05:11 PM (bB4HN)

162 Pep and I must go to the same Costco

Posted by: MAC SOG at July 21, 2017 05:11 PM (QPdNE)

163 Another way to get people out of your way is to simply walk down the street talking angrily to yourself all the time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2017 05:11 PM (mnh4u)

164 First I dropped Netflix, then, when I found out I really didn't miss Netflix, I dropped DirecTV only to find I didn't miss it either, then I turned off the ROKU and gave daughter H the Apple Firestick. Now the only thing left is the landline, and I'm not dropping that!

The only problem is now I haunt the book-thread and have a backlog of 100+ books in the must read queue.

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 21, 2017 05:11 PM (gwPgz)

165 Not what you were looking for Jewells but the prices show up in Canadian dollars for me and I can see your announcement about 'now shipping to Canada' on the home page.

I don't see anything about shipping included when I clicked on just one item but when I "added item to shopping-cart" the shopping-cart page gave me the three USPS shipping options to Canada alright.

Posted by: andycanuck #CNNisISIS at July 21, 2017 05:11 PM (nlbfN)

166 >>> >>I find that if you want people to give you plenty of space when walking then all you need to do is randomly stop dead in your tracks, look down for 3 seconds, then look straight ahead and shout "POTATO SALAD," and continue walking as if nothing odd happened.

>>Plenty of sidewalk room.

...

haha

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:11 PM (8rNrN)

167 Men are supposed to step out of the way for women on the sidewalk. This is basic manners.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

I agree except if you do this to a SJW you might get stabbed.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2017 05:11 PM (4e+hS)

168 Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:04 PM (CNHr1)

...

it's not saying shipping is included in price, and if I add an item to the cart the little "figure out shipping" button is there. and it added shipping cost when i entered my zip code.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 21, 2017 05:12 PM (yL25O)

169 How about when it's raining and there are thousands of idiots with umbrellas prancing around without a care in the world. I absolutely despise NYC in the rain because people have no concept of the way to navigate a city sidewalk with an umbrella. Up, down, cocked to one side...they all work, but you have to try one of them!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 21, 2017 05:12 PM (wYseH)

170 157 Men are supposed to step out of the way for women on the sidewalk. This is basic manners.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 21, 2017 05:10 PM (rZ+mb)

Sixty years ago, maybe. Now I just blow around them as there's usually four or five of them walking side by side at a snail's pace blocking everyone else's movement.

Posted by: Insomniac, Pimp Hand of the Patriarchy at July 21, 2017 05:12 PM (0mRoj)

171 From slavery to Jim Crow to fire hose-enforced segregation to sidewalk non-deviation.

Racial oppression in America is one persistent sonuvabitch, y'all.

Posted by: CPT11A at July 21, 2017 05:12 PM (hxUdS)

172 >>> Men are supposed to step out of the way for women on the sidewalk. This is basic manners.

a courtesy nod or reciprocal step out of the way would be appreciated in return.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:12 PM (8rNrN)

173 Worse is the "Everyone walk abreast and with no purpose or urgency". I'd like your giant friend to break a few of those up periodically to reintroduce shared space etiquette.

And this is more often than not limited to wide-hipped, younger women for some reason. It's also usually pretty purposeful. It has to be.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 21, 2017 05:13 PM (H8S+R)

174 I, much like my giant of a college pal, did begin wondering: Maybe I should just lay down a marker here and walk right on through these other people, these non-yielders.

I've done it to people who have their cell phone in front of their face and are completely oblivious to the fact they're walking down the middle of a hallway forcing others to jump out of their way.

On two occasions I've pulled out my own cell and intentionally shoulder checked the person, pretending to be as engrossed in my phone as they were. I'm 6'5, 230, so I'm not the one that gets knocked down.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2017 05:13 PM (jhqr1)

175 also, when you've yielded to 10 people in a row and gotten no courtesy yield-backs in return, you do start thinking of my friend's BOOM maneuver.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:13 PM (8rNrN)

176 the worst possible place.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 21, 2017 05:10 PM (veoSD)

I know!

I try to move my cart out of the way for people to pass. others just leave it hogging the whole aisle.

and second hand stores! gfm, But fk that I refuse to fight people to get through the store

Posted by: willow at July 21, 2017 05:13 PM (v12G8)

177 Dilbert featured something I run into all the time in grocery aisles: SMOP's, Slow Moving Oblivious People.

Nothing worse than wanting to go down an aisle and having a couple of large people strolling side-by-side, and refusing to budge an inch.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:13 PM (PY9jH)

178 157 Men are supposed to step out of the way for women on the sidewalk. This is basic manners.
With my luck I'd twist an ankle and fall face first into a pile of homeless poop.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 05:13 PM (mcI77)

179 ace I wanna do the BOOM deal, but i'd just knock myself out.

Posted by: willow at July 21, 2017 05:13 PM (v12G8)

180 128 >>Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor of California Community Colleges, made the
argument while speaking with NPR. He pegged algebra's overly burdensome...

"Eloy"

That's just too perfect.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 21, 2017 05:07 PM (NOIQH)

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lol

Posted by: SMFH at July 21, 2017 05:14 PM (s5Kql)

181 I'm six foot 185lb but I'm starting to feel small around here right now.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 21, 2017 05:11 PM (JJev6)
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You're taller than me and you weigh more than I do. Feel better?

Posted by: bluebell at July 21, 2017 05:14 PM (sTBcq)

182 148 I admit sometimes when i'm driving down a 2 lane road and someone is coming at me, hogging the center line, I move to hog the center line too just to see what they think about it. If I wasn't in a pickup I wouldn't try it.Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2017 05:03 PM (mnh4u)

I do that too. I think the primitive brain, even that of liberals, registers some sort of 'head on collision alert! ' to the stupid person in the opposing lane. Wakes them up out of their daze.

Hasn't failed yet in getting the other car where it belongs.
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 21, 2017 05:09 PM (EgwCt)

Back when I used to drive on a lot of gravel roads I would move to the center when there was another vehicle coming my way. It wasn't a matter of playing chicken but to decrease the odds a stone would get enough air to hit my windshield.

Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 21, 2017 05:14 PM (hJrjt)

183 Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:10 PM (8rNrN)

Oh, I agree. I also wonder if for your large friend that people might actually be doing their normal adjustment, but because he's so big, he feels like he's always making the larger adjustment himself.

Posted by: Joe, living mobile at July 21, 2017 05:14 PM (Zcp07)

184 with walls of people, I think you proceed in two stages:

1. "On your left!"

If they do not shift to allow you to pass on the left, you move to:

2. "On your back" as you walk over them

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:14 PM (8rNrN)

185 I'm going to ask something, Do others find this a deal with a group of women on women shoppers?

Posted by: willow at July 21, 2017 05:14 PM (v12G8)

186 My husband always walks on the street side of a sidewalk when we're together. That's called manners.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:14 PM (PY9jH)

187 It's the Chinese that do this and other Asians hate the way they act. They nearly started a riot at the Thialand airport when a group of Chinese tourists just cut in front of the line.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 05:09 PM (dKiJG)

I went skiing in Innsbruck once, long ago, and the Europeans had the worst manners. None of them would wait in any lines (not that they even had many, just pools of people jostling to get in front). The Americans were aghast at the barbaric nature of the Eurotrash. The Euros would even try to get ahead of you in a single line! It was pretty unreal. ANd the Eurotrash used to like to step on people's skis, which sent most of the Americans into a real tither - and rightly so - you DO NOT step on someone else's skis! At night, we Americans used to laugh about how uncouth the Europeans were and how they tried to call us ill-mannered.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 21, 2017 05:15 PM (rZ+mb)

188 because I have no problem with men , it's the women that fk with me.

Posted by: willow at July 21, 2017 05:15 PM (v12G8)

189 108 Could someone do me a ginormous favor? Click on my nic it will take you to my Etsy shop. Can you tell me when you are looking at an item if the price says it includes shipping? Etsy is doing some kind of test without bothering to tell people what they are doing they went in their shop and added shipping to every item. I saw it when I logged in at work. I'm at home now and I just checked and the price is the old price.. does NOT include shipping. Someone said it depends on the browser you are using? This is some kind of fucked up if you ask me. Just look and let me know. I'm kind of livid right now. Thanks.
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:04 PM (CNHr1)

Child's Formal Bracelet 7.98

I hope that helps

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 05:15 PM (dKiJG)

190 On two occasions I've pulled out my own cell and intentionally shoulder checked the person, pretending to be as engrossed in my phone as they were. I'm 6'5, 230, so I'm not the one that gets knocked down.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2017 05:13 PM (jhqr1)

I wish I could do that. I'd end up hurting myself.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:15 PM (Ri/rl)

191 Things are a bit different in NC. A cottonmouth was in my way this morning and I very carefully yielded that whole side of the road to her.

Posted by: Big V at July 21, 2017 05:15 PM (qnAGA)

192 I agree except if you do this to a SJW you might get stabbed.
Posted by: Dr Spank

If I do, I can guarantee they will get shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2017 05:15 PM (W4LFA)

193 159 I'm six foot 185lb but I'm starting to feel small around here right now.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 21, 2017 05:11 PM (JJev6)

Don't feel bad. For reasons I won't into my growth was stunted. I should probably be about four inches taller.

Posted by: Insomniac, Pimp Hand of the Patriarchy at July 21, 2017 05:15 PM (0mRoj)

194 So essentially a new grievance by the permanently aggrieved class. Gonna need a whiteboard to keep up. No--whiteboards are out, too now I hear.

Posted by: fly gal at July 21, 2017 05:16 PM (8TdcF)

195 >>>Oh, I agree. I also wonder if for your large friend that people might actually be doing their normal adjustment, but because he's so big, he feels like he's always making the larger adjustment himself.

no. I observed it when he pointed it out, and noticed it with myself, too. Many people are oblivious and just keep walking as if they're the only people in the world.

He wouldn't have minded if they did some micro-adjustment just out of courtesy. They were just barreling through, unaware of oncoming pedestrian traffic.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:16 PM (8rNrN)

196 >>I walk around with my erect penis in my hand and chicks get out of the way no problem.

Walking around with an erect penis and your hands on your hips will also lead to chicks getting out of the way.

Posted by: John Kasich at July 21, 2017 05:16 PM (/Nite)

197 Funny that he says it's white women because I have always known it to be black men, especially young black men just looking for confrontation. Grew up with them, went to college with them and when visiting Chicago I see it all the time. They seem to want to project a dominance over people in something so small as not moving an inch when walking toward you. Women do it because most of them are just rude.

Posted by: Walking in Chicago at July 21, 2017 05:16 PM (0gAY0)

198 I don't have a problem with people in my way.

As far as folks with their faces in their phones...

Oh well.

Posted by: SMFH at July 21, 2017 05:16 PM (s5Kql)

199 186
My husband always walks on the street side of a sidewalk when we're together. That's called manners.

As is the fact that you acknowledge it. Apparently many people don't or won't recognize that it's a system of reciprocity.

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:16 PM (LAe3v)

200 136 I don't know if it's a rule but I do notice a lot of people who don't give many fucks about walking in front of a moving car in parking lots.

Oh geez, this. Happens to me all the time. Oblivious dumbasses just leisurely strolling their way right in front of my moving 4500 pound SUV.
Posted by: Insomniac, Pimp Hand of the Patriarchy at July 21, 2017 05:08 PM (0mRoj)

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It's often clear they have intentionally slowed their walk.

Whatever. Life is too short. It that's what it takes to keep them from going home and beating the dog, so be it.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 21, 2017 05:16 PM (yL25O)

201 The Amazon portions of Seattle are bad. Lots of folks walk three abreast and don't like to adjust as they walk and talk.

A 'coming through' usually works. Haven't had too many collisions outside. Most happen indoor from phone addicts.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 21, 2017 05:16 PM (3OIiX)

202 >>>ace I wanna do the BOOM deal, but i'd just knock myself out.
Posted by: willow

sometimes a low center of gravity wins. Just crouch and put your hips into it.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:17 PM (8rNrN)

203 >>because I have no problem with men , it's the women that fk with me.

Present!

Posted by: Ellen at July 21, 2017 05:17 PM (MhEoO)

204
186 My husband always walks on the street side of a sidewalk when we're together. That's called manners.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:14 PM (PY9jH)

My husband does that too.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:17 PM (Ri/rl)

205 As I've mentioned here in the past, I've literally been backed into by people driving those damned motorized shopping carts. Once, as I was getting batteries, some behemoth slammed into me, cutting my ankle and nearly knocking me down. She said, "I thought you were a display" (???) and sped off without an apology.

Another time, I was paying the cashier at a full service car wash, and heard the tell-tale sound of a motorized cart fast approaching--in reverse--and had to stand on my toes and press myself against the counter to keep from being run over.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:18 PM (PY9jH)

206 >>>It's often clear they have intentionally slowed their walk.

I've noticed this.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:18 PM (8rNrN)

207 >>As far as folks with their faces in their phones...

I've been known to walk into a couple of phone talkers. Maybe a few more than a couple.

It's fun because they have no idea if you did it on purpose. I did.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 05:18 PM (/tuJf)

208 202 >>>ace I wanna do the BOOM deal, but i'd just knock myself out.
Posted by: willow

sometimes a low center of gravity wins. Just crouch and put your hips into it.
Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:17 PM (8rNrN)

That's what she said.

Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 05:18 PM (z/Ubi)

209 It's the Chinese that do this and other Asians hate
the way they act. They nearly started a riot at the Thialand airport
when a group of Chinese tourists just cut in front of the line.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 05:09 PM (dKiJG)

Yeah, definitely the Chinese.

Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 21, 2017 05:18 PM (Enq6K)

210 A 'coming through' usually works. Haven't had too many collisions outside. Most happen indoor from phone addicts.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 21, 2017 05:16 PM (3OIiX)

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"Make a hole!" works too.

Posted by: SMFH at July 21, 2017 05:18 PM (s5Kql)

211 200 136 I don't know if it's a rule but I do notice a lot of people who don't give many fucks about walking in front of a moving car in parking lots.

Oh geez, this. Happens to me all the time. Oblivious dumbasses just leisurely strolling their way right in front of my moving 4500 pound SUV.
Posted by: Insomniac, Pimp Hand of the Patriarchy at July 21, 2017 05:08 PM (0mRoj)

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It's often clear they have intentionally slowed their walk.

Whatever. Life is too short. It that's what it takes to keep them from going home and beating the dog, so be it.
Posted by: TexasDan at July 21, 2017 05:16 PM (yL25O)

I'm surprised how often people cross the road in front of me when I'm driving without a single glance in my direction. I've always tried to make eye contact if I'm about to walk in front of a car, no matter how slow moving.

Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 21, 2017 05:18 PM (hJrjt)

212 I absolutely despise NYC in the rain because people have no concept of the way to navigate a city sidewalk with an umbrella.
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Interesting. I wonder what baseball team they support?

Posted by: bluebell at July 21, 2017 05:18 PM (sTBcq)

213 You better get the f*ck out of MY way, OR I WILL END YOU.

Posted by: Robert Reich at July 21, 2017 05:19 PM (xAvrH)

214 I think women are especially bad about the yielding a bit of space thing for two reasons.

1. They're used to be deferred to, whereas another man will appreciate the possibility that the other guy might not yield all of the necessary space; and

2. A lot of women drift through space HUA (head up ass). For example, how many women will stop at a red light and unnecessarily hug the curb, so that no one can get past them to make a right turn? They apparently have never thought of that possibility. That, right there, is being HUA.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 05:19 PM (SRKgf)

215 I forget to mention that for me shipping was not included.

I am using Safari.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 05:19 PM (dKiJG)

216 157 Men are supposed to step out of the way for women on the sidewalk. This is basic manners.

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So, I legitimately get anxious whenever I'm walking behind a woman. I tend to walk faster than most, so I always have this fear that if they see me out of the corner of their eye that they'll think I'm following them. It's worse when it's not a well lit area or at night. I usually default to trying not to walk right behind them so they can see me coming from as far as possible and to pass quickly without making eye contact.

Posted by: Joe, living mobile at July 21, 2017 05:19 PM (Zcp07)

217 I swear, every story linked on twitter by the Washington Post is anti-Trump. It's a joke, worse than CNN.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2017 05:20 PM (4e+hS)

218 201 The Amazon portions of Seattle are bad. Lots of folks walk three abreast and don't like to adjust as they walk and talk.

A 'coming through' usually works. Haven't had too many collisions outside. Most happen indoor from phone addicts.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 21, 2017 05:16 PM (3OIiX)

The cycle bell ring on the B-G trail. Fuckers wait till the last minute to crank their bell. Scares the crap out of me every time.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 05:20 PM (mcI77)

219 What nobody's getting her is that 90 lb girls WANT big beefy hunky 6'6" guys to "plow" (ahem) them over.

Posted by: Jester at July 21, 2017 05:20 PM (lZelR)

220 Or else you get the BOOM, maybe.

I want video of ace screaming "Here comes the BOOM" as he runs at some rude sidewalk-hog.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2017 05:20 PM (jhqr1)

221 Some feminists have imagined the exact opposite and to "prove" it they decided to aggressively barge straight ahead and sure enough they bumped into alot of people. "Manslamming". It was published at "The Cut" in 2015.

I suspect men do the most to avoid contact. You bang into a woman or an old person, you look like an ass. Bump into guys and you could get a fight. Women have more leeway.

Posted by: forest at July 21, 2017 05:20 PM (4ExtI)

222 The price of multiculturalism. White people are more polite. Others realize this and take advantage of it.

Posted by: Juan Orina at July 21, 2017 05:20 PM (DflMi)

223 Ace has a giant friend, another clue to his real identity.

He is a character in a Roald Dahl story.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 05:20 PM (wPiJc)

224 I wonder what baseball team they support?

Posted by: bluebell at July 21, 2017 05:18 PM (sTBcq)

Well, since the city is inundated with tourists, probably the Red Sox.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 21, 2017 05:20 PM (wYseH)

225 With my luck I'd twist an ankle and fall face first into a pile of homeless poop.
Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 05:13 PM (mcI77)

...

This made me laugh, not least for the idea of a poor turd just looking for a home. And then getting smushed.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 21, 2017 05:21 PM (yL25O)

226 So ace, this big friend of yours. I assume white?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 21, 2017 05:21 PM (xAvrH)

227 186 My husband always walks on the street side of a sidewalk when we're together. That's called manners.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:14 PM (PY9jH)

My husband does that too.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:17 PM (Ri/rl)

My wife walks two steps behind me.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 05:21 PM (dKiJG)

228 1. Where I live, we have open carry, so we're very polite to each other on the sidewalks and on the highway.
2. Bumping into people is how we got hockey and football, so there's that.

Posted by: Strobe at July 21, 2017 05:21 PM (gbWkA)

229 Joe,

I have the same thing where I'm worried about how threatening I seem and try to not be threatening.

Listen to this bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pftxSfWH3s

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:21 PM (8rNrN)

230 "Interesting. I wonder what baseball team they support? "

The only team that matters.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 21, 2017 05:21 PM (+7/1f)

231 ace I wanna do the BOOM deal, but i'd just knock myself out.
Posted by: willow

sometimes a low center of gravity wins. Just crouch and put your hips into it.
Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:17 PM (8rNrN

Hey have you seen that commercial.. "i fell down and can't get up"?
that would be me with a broken hip!

ok not really , but i'd like to practice on a willing victim

Posted by: willow at July 21, 2017 05:21 PM (v12G8)

232 I'm surprised how often people cross the road in front of me when I'm driving without a single glance in my direction. I've always tried to make eye contact if I'm about to walk in front of a car, no matter how slow moving.

Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 21, 2017 05:18 PM (hJrjt)

A lot of this is because the courts have come down with the opinion that pedestrians can never be at fault on the street. Even if a pedestrian jumps in front of a moving car, it's generally the car's fault.

Our courts have no concept of manners or common sense. And now my state has gone totally apeshit putting crosswalk signs up everywhere, so they don't have to put a light in but all cars must yield to all pedestrians, whenever the pedestrian decides to mosey across the street. Lots of these crosswalks are within 50 feet of an actual corner light. And these crosswalks are hazards. You can't see anything at night and the pedestrians just jump right out into the street ... because "it's their RIGHT!!!"

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 21, 2017 05:22 PM (rZ+mb)

233 226 So ace, this big friend of yours. I assume white?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 21, 2017 05:21 PM (xAvrH)

Awfully forward of you to assume this. I figured his place of origin was Kashyyyk.

Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 05:22 PM (z/Ubi)

234 David Fincher made this brilliant observation in Fight Club, when Jack Durden is leaving the office talking about getting in everybody's hostile faces.... And he plows into women who do not take that polite half step to avoid the collision.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 21, 2017 05:22 PM (2qHjF)

235 Well, since the city is inundated with tourists, probably the Red Sox.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 21, 2017 05:20 PM (wYseH)
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Yeah, nice try, Dildo, but I ain't buyin' it.

Posted by: bluebell at July 21, 2017 05:22 PM (sTBcq)

236 Thanks everyone! It seems it does depend on the browser. Weird. I just don't know if I like this. My issue particularly is what if someone orders multiple items? I can usually put two or three items in a shipping bag and the shipping is around $3.50. This way it's charging them $2.67 each, at least as far as I can see.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:22 PM (CNHr1)

237 I've noticed a "thing" here, where urban yutes will deliberately slow down while crossing a street if they see a white person slowing or stopping for them.

So tempting to rev the engine.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:22 PM (PY9jH)

238 Chicks don't want to make eye contact. Actually nobody in NYC does. And they have taken that to the next level. They want to pretend they are the only one there. Tricking themselves into a feeling of safety. Delusional, natch.

Posted by: Simplemind at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (ZuGkg)

239 My wife walks two steps behind me.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 05:21 PM (dKiJG)

I think we are done here.....

Hard to beat this as thread winner.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (wYseH)

240 No--whiteboards are out, too now I hear.

Posted by: fly gal at July 21, 2017 05:16 PM (8TdcF)

Yes, it's blackboards now (again)!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (gwPgz)

241 Here's a big factor no one has mentioned: Football.

I was friends with someone long ago. We hung out. Different genders. Won't say which one was me.

When we hung out in crowded areas, the male friend had this uncanny skill of just slipping through the crowd untouched, while the female friend had to constantly stop and let others pass and get bumped and say excuse me and so on, such that it took her twice as long to cross a crowded platform than it took him.

So after a while she asked him how in the world he had this amazing skill of always being able to see the "gaps" in the crowd that were just opening up, and then slipping through them untouched?

He replied: "I think it comes from boys learning football as youngsters. One of the primary skills as a ball carrier is being able to "read" the defense and how the bodies are moving in a play, and being able to predict a split-second ahead of time where a gap in the bodies would open up, and to dart through that gap before anyone even knew there was a gap. Boys just learn this on the playground daily, and after a while it becomes instinctual. Girls don't learn this skill, so for them, navigating crowds is stressful and difficult."

What does the horde think? Is this theory correct?

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (DQ4Fv)

242 Yeah, nice try, Dildo, but I ain't buyin' it.

Posted by: bluebell at July 21, 2017 05:22 PM (sTBcq)

Aaaannd that's when the fight started.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (PY9jH)

243 229 Joe,

I have the same thing where I'm worried about how threatening I seem and try to not be threatening.

Listen to this bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pftxSfWH3s
Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:21 PM (8rNrN)

Hah! Yeah I'd seen that before. Sums up my experience pretty perfectly.

Posted by: Joe, living mobile at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (Zcp07)

244 239 My wife walks two steps behind me.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 05:21 PM (dKiJG)
I take it you do that to break wind for her.

Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (hJrjt)

245 Talking about grocery stores. When will HEB let you and ship their Fajita meat. When I visit my brother I bring back two coolers stuffed with Fajitas.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 05:24 PM (dKiJG)

246 Jane, the fight never ends.

Posted by: bluebell at July 21, 2017 05:24 PM (sTBcq)

247 Ok, my god damn stats aren't even right. If you all went to my shop and of course I believe you did it should show up and it's not. Christ no wonder I've been depressed about the store performance.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:24 PM (CNHr1)

248 241 Here's a big factor no one has mentioned: Football.

I was friends with someone long ago. We hung out. Different genders. Won't say which one was me.

When we hung out in crowded areas, the male friend had this uncanny skill of just slipping through the crowd untouched, while the female friend had to constantly stop and let others pass and get bumped and say excuse me and so on, such that it took her twice as long to cross a crowded platform than it took him.

So after a while she asked him how in the world he had this amazing skill of always being able to see the "gaps" in the crowd that were just opening up, and then slipping through them untouched?

He replied: "I think it comes from boys learning football as youngsters. One of the primary skills as a ball carrier is being able to "read" the defense and how the bodies are moving in a play, and being able to predict a split-second ahead of time where a gap in the bodies would open up, and to dart through that gap before anyone even knew there was a gap. Boys just learn this on the playground daily, and after a while it becomes instinctual. Girls don't learn this skill, so for them, navigating crowds is stressful and difficult."

What does the horde think? Is this theory correct?
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (DQ4Fv)

So you're saying guys are adept at finding the hole.

Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 05:24 PM (z/Ubi)

249 lol CBD!

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:25 PM (CNHr1)

250 when I am going through crowds or crowded sidewalks I simply angle around the people going the opposite direction and they generally do the same. you lean forward with your outside shoulder and the do the same so you can slide apst each other.

when I am in a crowd with Mrs. YankeeFifth she holds my hand behind my back and lets me work as her human ice breaker. Which is good for two reasons, no one can see her tiny little figure and no one who does feels as if it is necessary to get out of her way.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:25 PM (0wem/)

251 109 Polli

Safari (iPad), says "shipping included."

Also: BEAUTIFUL merch!

Posted by: ibguy at July 21, 2017 05:25 PM (vUcdz)

252 I'm often annoyed at little violations of (what seems to me) obvious matters of common courtesy. It may be healthiest just to let it go. It's hard though, feeling that you're a doormat merely because you are *aware* of such things.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 21, 2017 05:25 PM (xAvrH)

253 Oops, I meant Patrick.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:25 PM (CNHr1)

254 When I run after white women screaming "Here comes a raping" they seem run faster, sometimes I wonder if it's because I'm half Italian.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 21, 2017 05:25 PM (4e+hS)

255 He replied: "I think it comes from boys learning football as youngsters. One of the primary skills as a ball carrier is being able to "read" the defense and how the bodies are moving in a play, and being able to predict a split-second ahead of time where a gap in the bodies would open up, and to dart through that gap before anyone even knew there was a gap. Boys just learn this on the playground daily, and after a while it becomes instinctual. Girls don't learn this skill, so for them, navigating crowds is stressful and difficult."

What does the horde think? Is this theory correct?

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (DQ4Fv)

LOL. No ... but it's funny.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 21, 2017 05:25 PM (rZ+mb)

256 244
239 My wife walks two steps behind me.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 05:21 PM (dKiJG)

I take it you do that to break wind for her.

Man, that's cold. Breaking wind with someone a couple of steps behind.

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:26 PM (LAe3v)

257 The other one that pisses me off is people - again, mostly of the distaff persuasion - who when approaching will see something of interest on your side, and merely step right in front of you to get to it, rather than waiting a second and turning in behind you.

Two classics:

People in Boston seemed especially prone to doing the above, again especially women. One of them did that to me, cutting it close enough to bump into my shopping bag. Little did she realize that that bag held a recently purchased 14-inch crescent wrench.

Pushing a Home Depot trolley with 500 lbs of concrete on it, and having some soccer mom push her empty cart RIGHT in front of the rumbling trolley. Lady, starting/ stopping/ maneuvering this thing is not easy. So stop being HUA, and exercise a little courtesy, OK?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 05:26 PM (SRKgf)

258 well, does she walk two steps behind you because it is convenient, because you walk too fast, or because she knows it is her place?

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:26 PM (0wem/)

259 >>>He replied: "I think it comes from boys learning football as youngsters. One of the primary skills as a ball carrier is being able to "read" the defense and how the bodies are moving in a play, and being able to predict a split-second ahead of time where a gap in the bodies would open up, and to dart through that gap before anyone even knew there was a gap. Boys just learn this on the playground daily, and after a while it becomes instinctual. Girls don't learn this skill, so for them, navigating crowds is stressful and difficult."

maybe. But it's also probably because he doesn't mind some incidental contact and paint-trading, whereas a woman, I'd imagine, is trying for no contact.

Which is harder.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:26 PM (8rNrN)

260 Do they still have a problem in NYC of people walking around jabbing people with hat pins or syringes?

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 05:26 PM (mcI77)

261 People who can't get away from their best friend-i phone-are the worst. The don't look up from the thing not even they're crossing the street sometimes. Dolts.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2017 05:26 PM (iVOAv)

262 >>What does the horde think? Is this theory correct?

I was a linebacker. My job was to run into people with great intensity.

I think it goes more back to basic manners. I was brought up to move over, hold the door, all that old timey stuff that guys were taught. Not so much anymore.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 05:26 PM (/tuJf)

263 So basically...

Move, bitch, get out the way
Get out the way, bitch, get out the way

Posted by: S at July 21, 2017 05:26 PM (poT2p)

264 zombie that would make sense, and perhaps guys as a rule are bigger and more intimidating?

Posted by: willow at July 21, 2017 05:26 PM (v12G8)

265 "What does the horde think? Is this theory correct?"

I walk through an often crowded Grand Central twice daily. Lots of people moving in very different directions, at different speeds, tourists and shitheads taking selfies.

Absolutely, like a running back, I look for a seam.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 21, 2017 05:26 PM (+7/1f)

266
What does the horde think? Is this theory correct?
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (DQ4Fv)

It's spot on.when I was a wee young lad I actually use to pretend I was a ball carrier when walking through a crowded area

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 21, 2017 05:27 PM (lKyWE)

267 47 This could have been a Seinfeld episode.

____________________________

Literally, my first thought as well.

"The Curb Hogger." Kramer refuses to acknowledge Elaine until she apologizes to a perfect stranger for not sharing the sidewalk like a "civil human being." Newman gets a coke bottle stuck in his nostril. George gets a tattoo.

Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2017 05:27 PM (ziyUi)

268 well maybe not because guys say theyalso have problems with women paying attention.

Posted by: willow at July 21, 2017 05:27 PM (v12G8)

269 Boys just learn this on the playground daily, and after a while it becomes instinctual. Girls don't learn this skill, so for them, navigating crowds is stressful and difficult."

Nah. Boys learn that they MIGHT just get dough-popped on their asses, and so learn to pay attention.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 05:27 PM (SRKgf)

270 Do they still have a problem in NYC of people walking around jabbing people with hat pins or syringes?

What about the Knockout Game?

Posted by: tu3031 at July 21, 2017 05:27 PM (qJhUV)

271 wasn't there a kids in the hall skit about this?

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:27 PM (0wem/)

272 Pushing a Home Depot trolley with 500 lbs of concrete on it, and having
some soccer mom push her empty cart RIGHT in front of the rumbling
trolley. Lady, starting/ stopping/ maneuvering this thing is not easy.
So stop being HUA, and exercise a little courtesy, OK?

Yup. There are times you look like a cartoon character as you furiously backpedal to try and stop before plowing the idiot over.

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:28 PM (LAe3v)

273 Pushing a Home Depot trolley with 500 lbs of concrete on it, and having some soccer mom push her empty cart RIGHT in front of the rumbling trolley.

Were any Dolphin tats observed?

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 05:28 PM (mcI77)

274 >>>The other one that pisses me off is people - again, mostly of the distaff persuasion - who when approaching will see something of interest on your side, and merely step right in front of you to get to it, rather than waiting a second and turning in behind you.

I'm conscious of people behind me, or the possibility that someone MAY be behind me even if I haven't detected them, so I'm wary of sudden stops.

I notice a lot of people aren't, and just stop dead for whatever reason.

I think a lot of people are just assholes with no sense of presence in the material world.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:28 PM (8rNrN)

275 Perhaps related but I find there's a lot of drivers who appear utterly dependent on other drivers for their safety.

Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 21, 2017 05:28 PM (hJrjt)

276 I'm certainly no giant, but I'm big enough that I usually feel silly darting and weaving between people, but people just will not fucking get out of the way. And yes, it's very tempting to just lay down a full-on WWF shoulder block and give a big ole Ric Flair "Wooooo!"

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at July 21, 2017 05:28 PM (uuwor)

277 when I am in a crowd with Mrs. YankeeFifth she holds my hand behind my back and lets me work as her human ice breaker. Which is good for two reasons, no one can see her tiny little figure and no one who does feels as if it is necessary to get out of her way.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:25 PM (0wem/

aww sweet, I knew you were a good guy!

Posted by: willow at July 21, 2017 05:29 PM (v12G8)

278 61 >>> I walk around with my erect penis in my hand and chicks get out of the way no problem.

That would also work if you were holding someone else's erect penis.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at July 21, 2017 04:57 PM (5yg1M)

And it need not be attached.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 21, 2017 05:29 PM (P/kVC)

279 Ever been grocery shopping and/or to Walmart. Those places are full of racists!!! People of all colors leaving their carts in the middle of the isle, letting their kids run rampant while you are trying to navigate through, talking on their cells and not paying attention to others trying to get down an aisle, etc.

Posted by: Cheri at July 21, 2017 05:29 PM (oiNtH)

280 Boys just learn this on the playground daily, and after a while it becomes instinctual. Girls don't learn this skill, so for them, navigating crowds is stressful and difficult."

What does the horde think? Is this theory correct?

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (DQ4Fv)

...

No. He's just letting you into our headspace, where even when we're just walking in the mall, in our heads we're all on a breakaway touchdown or about to single handedly take out a machine gun nest.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 21, 2017 05:29 PM (yL25O)

281 Rubbins' just racin', son.

Posted by: Strobe at July 21, 2017 05:30 PM (gbWkA)

282 When I am approaching a pedestrian coming from the other direction in a narrow venue. I usually employ a two-step process. First I signal a willingness to accommodate, by a slight change of course or perhaps turning shoulders slightly to present a narrower front. If they acknowledge that signal we pass uneventfully. If not, the second step is to stop dead in my tracks but hold my ground, thus creating a choice for the oncoming walker. They can alter course and miss, or they can bump into me, thus becoming the offender. (I am 6'2" and 240#, which may influence their decision-making.)

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 05:30 PM (wPiJc)

283 I walk through an often crowded Grand Central twice daily. Lots of people moving in very different directions, at different speeds, tourists and shitheads taking selfies.

Absolutely, like a running back, I look for a seam.

Posted by: Ignoramus

Ah, that's the correct term -- the "seam." Precisely. Men can find the seam in a chaotic crowd.. Women can't.

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:30 PM (DQ4Fv)

284 There's also an etiquette about physical contact in crowds -- putting hands on someone and lightly *guiding* them to a slightly different position is okay, but barging through, or roughly moving them, can pick a fight.

In fact, even the guiding thing can start a fight, but sometimes, you just gotta move a motherfucker a little bit.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:30 PM (8rNrN)

285 Ah, that's the correct term -- the "seam." Precisely. Men can find the seam in a chaotic crowd.. Women can't.
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:30 PM (DQ4Fv)

---

News to me.

Posted by: SMFH at July 21, 2017 05:31 PM (s5Kql)

286 Ever been trying to get off of an elevator and the people wanting to get on start piling in before you can get out?

Racists!

Posted by: Cheri at July 21, 2017 05:31 PM (oiNtH)

287 No. He's just letting you into our headspace, where even when we're just
walking in the mall, in our heads we're all on a breakaway touchdown or
about to single handedly take out a machine gun nest.

You.....you HAVEN'T done those things?

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:31 PM (LAe3v)

288 well men also have the advantage of being taller than women so it is easier to find the seam.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:31 PM (0wem/)

289 237 I've noticed a "thing" here, where urban yutes will deliberately slow down while crossing a street if they see a white person slowing or stopping for them.

So tempting to rev the engine.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:22 PM (PY9jH)

And then to pop the clutch?

This used to happen all the time in the Bay Area, where it is/was an especially pathetic form of self-assertion.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 05:31 PM (SRKgf)

290 I despise the can't-be-racists yoots who walk down the middle of the road for no reason other than to inconvenience you.

See also Saint Mike of the Perforations

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 21, 2017 05:31 PM (psH+N)

291 >>But it doesn't seem to be a racial thing. I'm white

Ace is white!?

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2017 05:31 PM (beJsD)

292 No self-respecting young feminist is going to cede control to a walking rapist penis

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2017 05:31 PM (rdEJB)

293 I mostly notice this type of thing while grocery shopping and at 4 way stops.

Posted by: geoffb5 at July 21, 2017 05:32 PM (d3wbb)

294 286 Ever been trying to get off of an elevator and the people wanting to get on start piling in before you can get out?

Posted by: Cheri at July 21, 2017 05:31 PM (oiNtH)

I just get off. What happens from there is their problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 05:32 PM (SRKgf)

295 Here's a big factor no one has mentioned: Football.

. . .

What does the horde think? Is this theory correct?
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (DQ4Fv)

Actually, in airports and other lotsa-walking-people areas, I do in fact play "open-field runner" and pretend to be a football player.

"I'll slip right by your feeble attempt to stop me, ha ha ha!"

Posted by: filbert at July 21, 2017 05:32 PM (s5o+q)

296 248 241 Here's a big factor no one has mentioned: Football.

So you're saying guys are adept at finding the hole.
Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 05:24 PM (z/Ubi)

Sometimes they choose the wrong hole and are blocked .

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 21, 2017 05:32 PM (JJev6)

297 And it need not be attached.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 21, 2017 05:29 PM (P/kVC)

That's when you get a really clear path!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 21, 2017 05:32 PM (gwPgz)

298 well, then there is subway etiquette. women suck here too. some think it is ok to just lean up against you because the train is going around a curve.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:32 PM (0wem/)

299 If they move out of the way, they're racist for trying to avoid the scary black man.

Posted by: wakkoxcw at July 21, 2017 05:32 PM (WXFpW)

300 Does the protocol change on a moving walkway?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 05:33 PM (wPiJc)

301 "Stand right, walk left!!"

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 05:33 PM (wPiJc)

302 291 >>But it doesn't seem to be a racial thing. I'm white

Ace is white!?
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2017 05:31 PM (beJsD)

Shave off the fur and he's probably more pinkish than white.

Posted by: Insomniac, Pimp Hand of the Patriarchy at July 21, 2017 05:33 PM (0mRoj)

303 I strangely enjoy knowing that someone driving may have just lost his job, had his wife leave him, or be told he has brain cancer, though.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 21, 2017 05:33 PM (psH+N)

304 >>Actually, in airports and other lotsa-walking-people areas, I do in fact play "open-field runner" and pretend to be a football player.

That you OJ?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 05:33 PM (/tuJf)

305 I know kids don't know anything and I don't get mad at them for stopping suddenly or making wild, random course changes (which makes you do that sudden turn/tap dance on one foot avoidance maneuver), but sometimes I just want to say to the parent, in my most condescending adult voice, "Madame, mind your child please."

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:33 PM (8rNrN)

306 Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (DQ4Fv)

I don't know. I can move through a crowd faster than my husband. I was a cocktail waitress. I had to maneuver through crowds.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:33 PM (Ri/rl)

307 well, then there is subway etiquette. women suck
here too. some think it is ok to just lean up against you because the
train is going around a curve.

Posted by: yankeefifth

Depends. Are they attractive?

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:33 PM (LAe3v)

308 When I was 20 and we went athen's Ohio Halloween party, one of my friends was a lead singer and saw me in the crowd and came down to say Hi, he handed me a Beer and I gave it to my 6,7 friend and out of nowhere 2 undercover cops show up, ask for his ID. He says my ID is right here and takes off into the crowded street, he literally swam through the crowd and the cops had no chance to catch him

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 05:34 PM (dKiJG)

309 And it need not be attached.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 21, 2017 05:29 PM (P/kVC)

That's when you get a really clear path!

******

Ah, the old penis-in-an-Igloo-cooler, "Make way I'm a transplant specialist, coming through!" gambit.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 05:34 PM (wPiJc)

310 Ever been grocery shopping and/or to Walmart. Those places are full of racists!!! People of all colors leaving their carts in the middle of the isle, letting their kids run rampant while you are trying to navigate through, talking on their cells and not paying attention to others trying to get down an aisle, etc.

Posted by: Cheri at July 21, 2017 05:29 PM (oiNtH)

Ever been grocery shopping and/or to Walmart. Those places are full of ~~racists~~ retards.

My favorite: pushing the cart to one side of the aisle, then hold onto it while pawing for something on the other side.

"Is this planet inhabited? No, I don't think so."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 05:34 PM (SRKgf)

311 What a truly great friend.

I walk with two wooden canes. (very stylish, graceful, unobtrusive, heavy, with handles carved to fit right and left hands.) People of all stripes and ages, religions, and sex, kindly move out of my path. W-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-y out of my path. (They also open doors, split a crowd, pick up things for me that I drop, all the rest, but that is irrelevant to this walking complaint. They even say, "Keep it up, Sir. They even jump ahead of me to open doors. It's a beautiful thing to behold.) But I have also noticed, I must, that men are more situationally aware, in the general sense. I see ahead of me young men pulling their female companions closer to them without saying anything and the females catching on to what's happening. These are generalizations. Each day provides exceptions. Since forfeiting mobility I notice people hold open elevator doors where they hustle on previously. And young people are especially beautiful.

I just now got my driver's license renewed. They prioritized me unexpectedly. I was in and out of the place with a new license within four minutes flat. Everyone participated to make it easy for me.

This concludes my walking observations.

Posted by: bour3 at July 21, 2017 05:35 PM (KXQr+)

312 I never get out of the way.

Posted by: dagny at July 21, 2017 05:35 PM (wZuWv)

313
Depends. Are they attractive?
Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:33 PM (LAe3v)

Huma tells me they are.

Posted by: Hillary at July 21, 2017 05:35 PM (hJrjt)

314
well men also have the advantage of being taller than women so it is easier to find the seam.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:31 PM (0wem/)

In fairness women have bumper bullets out in front of them

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 21, 2017 05:35 PM (lKyWE)

315 Maintain situational awareness. That is all.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 21, 2017 05:35 PM (xAvrH)

316 Castlevania's story has always been pretty wonky. I mean, ignore even the dumbest obvious Mary Sue parts - Dracula can only be beaten for good by having Japanese people seal his castle in the moon!...wait what?? But just the basics - it starts out with very little plot for Dracula - basically just, he's a vampire, he's evil, Belmont family is tasked to kill him every century, and scene.

Then they added a tiny bit of human motivation with Alucard - his mother Lisa was apparently an erstwhile fling for Drac, she gets killed for being suspected of witchcraft, Drac re-ignites his hatred of humanity. But then they just completely aped the Coppola movie when they rebooted the origin in the early 00's - Dracula is mad at God because his wife dies, wants immortality to...teach God a lesson, I guess, but betrays his best friend in order to get the phylactery he needs to become a vampire because hey, I'm sure he'll let bygones be bygones.

Eh, I'll still watch the Netflix show because I'm a mark...but I won't pay for it.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at July 21, 2017 05:35 PM (uuwor)

317 "Actually, in airports and other lotsa-walking-people areas, I do in fact play "open-field runner" and pretend to be a football player."

There was once a much-beloved former football player who made ads about open-field running through airports. Was in some pretty funny movies too.

Name escapes me.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 21, 2017 05:35 PM (+7/1f)

318 >>"Stand right, walk left!!"

I hate that. I mean it's written right on the damn tread and people still stand on the right. And if it's at an airport they always have luggage piled on the ground.

It's a walkway not a damn amusement ride.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 05:35 PM (/tuJf)

319 159 I'm six foot 185lb but I'm starting to feel small around here right now.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 21, 2017 05:11 PM (JJev6)

For my family, that is short...

My mom was the shortest in our family, poor little thing was only 6 foot tall.

Posted by: PMRich at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (w5Qj0)

320 here's an annoyance:

Girl stops the elevator doors as they're closing. Then hits button for one floor above. One floor. Then, just sits there as the elevator waits to close the doors again, instead of hitting "Close Doors."

I wanted to do my Tim Olyphant impression of him in Live Free or Die Hard and say, "Are you feeling all right? Are you sure?"

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (8rNrN)

321 Pushing a Home Depot trolley with 500 lbs of concrete on it...

Or at Sam's or Costco with a basket full of water and soft drinks. Sorry, momentum always wins.

Posted by: no good deed at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (hsb2w)

322 then of course there are the jackasses that do not give up their seats for women.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (0wem/)

323 "When you're on fire and go runnin' down the street, people will get out of your way!"

Posted by: kbdabear at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (3i2nH)

324 283 I walk through an often crowded Grand Central twice daily. Lots of people moving in very different directions, at different speeds, tourists and shitheads taking selfies.

Absolutely, like a running back, I look for a seam.

Posted by: Ignoramus

Ah, that's the correct term -- the "seam." Precisely. Men can find the seam in a chaotic crowd.. Women can't.
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:30 PM (DQ4Fv)

This learned skill translates into driving as well.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (2qHjF)

325 I'm polite until someone gives me a shoulder or shove. Those who choose to be inconsiderate will experience a slight course correction when I lift them off of both of their feet.

Posted by: Fritz at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (eLttb)

326 some think it is ok to just lean up against you because the train is going around a curve.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:32 PM (0wem/)

I have enough problem with humanity at long distances. The subway is vile beyond belief.

And by the way, it's getting really, really bad.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (wYseH)

327 Actually, in airports and other lotsa-walking-people areas, I do in fact play "open-field runner" and pretend to be a football player."

There was once a much-beloved former football player who made ads about open-field running through airports. Was in some pretty funny movies too.

Name escapes me.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July

bob lurtsema?

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (0wem/)

328 She was a cocktail waitress in a local bar, that much it true...

Posted by: Strobe at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (gbWkA)

329 sometimes I just want to say to the parent, in my most condescending adult voice, "Madame, mind your child please."

Posted by: ace

This. My kids were very well behaved in public, because they knew not to try Dad's patience. Granted, they were all girls, but still.

There is little I loathe more than that look from some negligent parent when they smile at you as if to say "isn't he darling, what can you do?"

You could start by disciplining your f***ing brat.

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:37 PM (LAe3v)

330 Once in Honolulu I was a heaving crowd trying to go through turnstiles to a baseball game, when suddenly I felt myself propelled forward.

I turned around and looked back to see a couple of little Japanese dudes with their shoulders in my back, chugging away with their little feet as though hitting a blocking sled.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 05:37 PM (SRKgf)

331 As a New Yorker I completely get this, but there are two classes of sidewalk driver that bother me even more:

1. The Phone Zombie. They never look up, they never manage for impending collision, and luckily, they wander into traffic more and more these days. Put the phone down sparky, you're too stupid to do more than one thing at a time, and you're already walking.

2. The Oblivious Weaver. I walk 110% the speed of everyone else. Call me an dick if you like but I don't like to waste time getting there when I can be there already. The oblivious weaver will walk 60% the speed of everyone else, in a position designed to take up 100% of the available space. They tend to let their direction shift back and forth at something less than a direct angle, and change back to the other direction when it looks like they might leave some space for people to get past them.

Tourists are often guilty of this in New York (though never Japanese tourists for some reason), but you almost can't blame them. The ones that anger me more are the obvious residents who should know better. And the very worst are the ones who walk in groups, forming a line across the whole sidewalk so no one else can get by in either direction. This would be fine if they'd just show a little common courtesy. But in the village where I live, they never do.

Posted by: Tom From RFNJ at July 21, 2017 05:37 PM (D33n7)

332 301 "Stand right, walk left!!"
Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 05:33 PM (wPiJc)

Yes, the people at the airport that stop on the moving walkways like it's a ride and block the whole aisle drive me nuts.

Or hog the whole escalator.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:37 PM (Ri/rl)

333 I live in a town with a fairly high proportion of older individuals. At four-way stop signs here the usual practice is for all four drivers to get out of their cars, meet in the middle of the intersection, exchange pictures of their grandkids, then do a quick round of rock-paper-scissors to see who goes first.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 05:37 PM (wPiJc)

334 What does the horde think? Is this theory correct?

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (DQ4Fv)
=============

I think it's correct. But I think women can just as well learn to read body language and anticipate which direction another body is heading and thus avoid collision.

Having said that, I think women are naturally designed and reticent to bump into strangers and so they avoid the risk, either to not appear rude or to avoid injury.

Posted by: fly gal at July 21, 2017 05:37 PM (8TdcF)

335 I have enough problem with humanity at long distances. The subway is vile beyond belief.

And by the way, it's getting really, really bad.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July

yep. let it burn, some more.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:37 PM (0wem/)

336 Posted by: PMRich at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (w5Qj

Is your family Dutch?

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 21, 2017 05:37 PM (JJev6)

337 I have been on the side of an aisle at the grocery store perusing items and have actually had people step in front of me. I mean, directly in front of me as if I was invisible. My line "Oh, I am sorry, am I in your way?". Some get it and some don't.

Posted by: Cheri at July 21, 2017 05:37 PM (oiNtH)

338 I went to Mardi Gras a couple of times a few years ago. I actually enjoy wearing my Red Wings and plowing through the crowd with the very tiny DanMa'am hanging on to my belt loops.

Posted by: DanMan at July 21, 2017 05:38 PM (XTiHL)

339 Try carrying a lit cigar held out in front of you. Works really well.

Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill formerly from Canada at July 21, 2017 05:38 PM (JQ5d4)

340 "Stand right, walk left!!"

I watched as my cousin's kids absolutely refused to listen when I told them to stand right on the metro escalators. Every.Single.Time. I was annoyed for everyone else.

Posted by: no good deed at July 21, 2017 05:38 PM (hsb2w)

341 How many 'Ettes have been elbowed in the boob in a crowded bar?

How many Morons have elbowed a girl in the boob in a crowded bar?

Posted by: kbdabear at July 21, 2017 05:38 PM (3i2nH)

342 6'4" 350#
I am not above stopping in my tracks and taking the charge if a group is filling the whole sidewalk.
My main issue is crowds... farmers markets, football games, state fairs. I need a wide gap between people heading in the same direction as me if I want to pass them. I can elbow them aside, or yell gangway, or wait for the gap to open, but people invariably pass me for the "open gap" they fit in that I do not.
Also people who bring side by side baby walkers to the farmers markets as grocery carts should be beaten with sacks of potatoes.

Posted by: Bite the hand that feeds me at July 21, 2017 05:38 PM (2mguH)

343 fly gal at July

jlo?

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:38 PM (0wem/)

344
This learned skill translates into driving as well.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (2qHjF)

And sometimes it don't

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 21, 2017 05:38 PM (lKyWE)

345 >>This concludes my walking observations.

This reinforces my blind experience. People will get out of your way if they see you have some sort of disability.

It also means that people do in fact see other people coming and not getting out of the way is a conscious choice.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (/tuJf)

346 There was once a much-beloved former football player who made ads about open-field running through airports. Was in some pretty funny movies too.

Name escapes me.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 21, 2017 05:35 PM (+7/1f)

Oh, go ahead, take a stab at it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (SRKgf)

347 >>sometimes I just want to say to the parent, in my most condescending adult voice, "Madame, mind your child please."

I just went through this 5 minutes ago. Lady had an entire litter of snot nosed bastards running all over the supermarket.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (beJsD)

348 >>>For example, how many women will stop at a red light and unnecessarily hug the curb, so that no one can get past them to make a right turn?

Right Turn Blockers, Noooo!!

I used to have a small car and I would accelerate to insane speeds (50-60 miles an hour) and pass them with literal centimeters to spare as I approached the light to make a right turn.

Posted by: Max Power at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (q177U)

349 I walk like I drive: slightly faster than ambient traffic. I'm rarely walking for fun, I walk to get places.

Posted by: Joe, living mobile at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (Zcp07)

350 So White Women have a Supremecy about them in everything they do or is the black man bad for pointing out that they refuse to get out of the way?

Who is the hater?

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (2qHjF)

351 "Actually, in airports and other lotsa-walking-people areas, I do in fact play "open-field runner" and pretend to be a football player."

There was once a much-beloved former football player who made ads about open-field running through airports. Was in some pretty funny movies too.

Name escapes me.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 21, 2017 05:35 PM (+7/1f)

Yeah, but I usually don't rent cars, steal back my memorabilia or (allegedly) kill women, so I'm not sure if the comparison is ideal.

I do find however that I am not above deploying the loud, somewhat hurried/annoyed "EXCUSE ME!" to those interlopers who persist in impeding my progress.

Posted by: filbert at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (s5o+q)

352 I did a really bad subway thing trying to drink coffee on a crowded car.

Yeah, I was the asshole.

But lesson learned, wouldn't do it again. At least not during any time when it's SRO.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (8rNrN)

353 So if you played guard or fullback does this mean you look to knock the woman down to clear the path for your date?

Posted by: Big V at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (qnAGA)

354 341 How many 'Ettes have been elbowed in the boob in a crowded bar?

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Never.

Posted by: SMFH at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (s5Kql)

355 Happens to me all of time. I find that most likely, they simply have no clue as to what's going on around them.

Just stop. Right there. Right in front of them.
No bumping, no nothing. Just look at them.
They just go around.

Posted by: Gunslinger at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (4S7hN)

356 This concludes my walking observations.

Posted by: bour3

Lovely story. Thanks.

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:40 PM (LAe3v)

357 Had this happen ten years ago at an old job. Scene: Bunch of temps brought in for a project in a fulfillment office. I'm not one of them. I and several other guys actually on the payroll are doing the main work. Often this includes pushing a cart laden with a large amount of circulars, pamphlets, forms, and other paper products of deceptively large total weight. This cart must pass through a specific space to get from the stock shelves to the station where the items are packaged for shipping.

Naturally, some of these temps insist on gathering in that path, chatting and being completely useless.

They were warned to get out of the way when folks were working. Usually a brief verbal reminder was sufficient to clear a hole.

One day, it wasn't. Physics ensued.

The offended offenders glared and complained, but my boss backed me up. They had, after all, been warned repeatedly and been given a warning shout to clear out...

Those and the rest of the temps were chucked out later after a different incident. Just don't make 'em like they used to, I guess.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 21, 2017 05:40 PM (AM1GF)

358 was going through the hood the other when some mother decided to pound on her kid, until her mom straightened her out.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:40 PM (0wem/)

359 It also means that people do in fact see other people coming and not getting out of the way is a conscious choice.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (/tuJf)

This is true. As an experiment, I've feigned not noticing someone who has changed course to put us on an interception course, and they have always changed back.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 05:40 PM (SRKgf)

360 I have enough problem with humanity at long distances. The subway is vile beyond belief.

And by the way, it's getting really, really bad.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Perhaps NYC is not the place for you.

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:40 PM (LAe3v)

361 I heard Donny Two Scoops offed Spicer.

Posted by: MAGA at July 21, 2017 05:40 PM (NpktJ)

362 I wonder how many of them are walking with their heads down while texting?

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2017 05:41 PM (MQpw+)

363 So, this entire thread is basically the Morons discussing the fine details of going "walkies," yes?

Posted by: filbert at July 21, 2017 05:41 PM (s5o+q)

364 I've found that if you lead with your balls exposed, people get out of your way.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 21, 2017 05:41 PM (xfb67)

365 Ok, people shouldn't just barrel down the sidewalk taking up excess room, oblivious to other walkers, but it's normal etiquette for men to yield to women in general.

Whenever I want to feel like a queen I can go to a sporting goods store on a Friday afternoon when old fashioned guys with good manners are shopping for shotgun shells or fishing equipment. They practically injure themselves getting out of my way, and BTW I appreciate that, thank them, and don't take advantage.

Posted by: stace at July 21, 2017 05:41 PM (wH8rX)

366 Cheri.. depends on how close you are to the aisle you are perusing. If there is a of space and I can't get by the other way I will go in front of someone if there is room but I always say excuse me.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:41 PM (CNHr1)

367 When you find a seemingly abandoned grocery cart in the middle of the aisle, or blocking your exit from said aisle, it absolutely will be a man's cart. Men leave the cart in a stationary position, go hunt down items, and bring them back to the cart. They do NOT stay with their cart. Worst day to shop: Super Bowl Sunday, before the game, when all the men are there.

I'm not saying women don't block the aisles. They do, but they'll be right there with the cart, oblivious, with their back to it as they try to select which chicken package from the other 38 packages of chicken they want to buy.

Posted by: JuJuBee at July 21, 2017 05:41 PM (2NqXo)

368 I do the same thing at Wal-Mart, I just pretend to be looking at the shelves

Posted by: Capitalist infidel at July 21, 2017 05:41 PM (YopUB)

369 Why do some dumbasses take their kids into a liquor store?

Posted by: SMFH at July 21, 2017 05:41 PM (s5Kql)

370 It seems to me that more and more people stop two feet inside a doorway to have a leisurely conversation.

But that doesn't piss me off. I'm above all that.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at July 21, 2017 05:42 PM (398bZ)

371 Perhaps NYC is not the place for you.
Posted by: pep at July

he is fine so long as he is not going crosstown during rush hours.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:42 PM (0wem/)

372 General rule from someone 6'4" and built like an NFL linebacker/DE: Most women are unaware of there surroundings, most men are aware. I used to be like your friend and try an avoid contact. One day having had enough, I just stopped when women approached me without being aware. They bounced off and then apologized. So now, I simply stop and await the collision. Most of the time this occurs at malls and retail outlets, as I no longer live in a big city. {I now do this to men, too, those unaware.}

The worst thing is people who stop in doorways to have a conversation. They are the ultimate self-absorbed. This group used to be mostly women, but as men have become more feminized I see this behavior in men now, too.

Posted by: Locke Common at July 21, 2017 05:42 PM (mLnfL)

373 Posted by: ibguy at July 21, 2017 05:25 PM (vUcdz)

Thanks! I need to check that because it shouldn't on mine. Jewells was the one who asked for people to check, so make sure you check her shop.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (rp9xB)

374 Yeah, girls in particular seem to not really care about the whole "Colliding bodies" thing when walking down the street. Maybe it's just that men naturally get out of the way, and so they've tended to not even notice the need for small deviations in course.

Maybe it's because if you knock a woman on her ass, even accidentally, everybody in the area is going to assume it's your fault. Her boyfriend/husband will feel honor bound to kick your ass, and you may be arrested.

This reminds me of the experiment where if a couple is arguing and the woman assaults the man that makes the bystanders laugh, but if the man assaults the woman at exactly the same level people are willing to intervene.

Also, Ace, your giant friend is kind of a dick.

Posted by: Ace's liver at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (Xuv2G)

375 I'm a big guy and I've laid out people that just won't gtfo of my way. It really gets tiresome. I notice it more in cities. In the country most people just step out of each others way and even say howdy. There really is nothing like having 100 lbs on a guy and he doesn't move. Physics is great sometimes.

Posted by: Fletch at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (orDky)

376 maybe. But it's also probably because he doesn't mind some incidental contact and paint-trading, whereas a woman, I'd imagine, is trying for no contact.

Which is harder.
Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:26 PM (8rNrN)

You know it could have some merit as well. Not necessarily the "Played football" part, but the difference between men and women's brains. Because aren't guys supposed to have better spatial awareness than women, which is why they tended to be the hunters. So maybe some of that spatial awareness is coming into play to be watching and knowing when to stop or move through a crowd.

Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (z/Ubi)

377 So if you played guard or fullback does this mean you look to knock the woman down to clear the path for your date?
Posted by: Big V at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (qnAGA)

I did do that thing on occasion for my (now-deceased) wheelchair-bound father in law.

People's annoyance that you're busting through does tend to suddenly relent precipitiously when they see you're icebreaking for a wheelchair.

Posted by: filbert at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (s5o+q)

378 >>>Ok, people shouldn't just barrel down the sidewalk taking up excess room, oblivious to other walkers, but it's normal etiquette for men to yield to women in general.

it's also normal etiquette to acknowledge a yield. We do so in traffic. (And people who don't are dicks.)

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (8rNrN)

379 Hey everybody.

Back in my bike riding days (before I had a car), if I thought a car at 90 degrees, turning right and situated ahead of me, might plow into me, I would always try to *make eye contact* with the driver beforehand as I was approaching.

It worked. They would turn, see me and stay stopped, or stop if they were moving forward slightly.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (eMKNe)

380 "How many Morons have elbowed a girl in the boob in a crowded bar?"

One of life's great unexpected pleasures.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (+7/1f)

381 Jesus, where'd all these tall people come from?

Posted by: Insomniac, Pimp Hand of the Patriarchy at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (0mRoj)

382 Looks like I'll be playing free safety on the aos football team.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (JJev6)

383 Norwegian - moms side
Heinz57 (English, scot etc) - dads side

Posted by: PMRich at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (w5Qj0)

384 Real Men don't use shopping carts.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (beJsD)

385 "Men leave the cart in a stationary position, go hunt down items, and bring them back to the cart."

Guilty as charged. There's no sense pushing a cart down every little branch aisle.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at July 21, 2017 05:44 PM (398bZ)

386 341 How many 'Ettes have been elbowed in the boob in a crowded bar?

How many Morons have elbowed a girl in the boob in a crowded bar?

Posted by: kbdabear at July 21, 2017 05:38 PM (3i2nH)

I've been groped as I walked by some dude with a tray of drinks over my head. I set the tray down and slapped the guy and the bouncers beat his ass. My sister hit him with her high heel shoe.
Don't touch me.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:44 PM (Ri/rl)

387 And if you see that the aisle at the grocery store is packed and you only need one thing, feel free to leave your buggy somewhere that isn't blocking traffic and walk in to politely find what it is you need. There's no need to jam it up worse because you need it to carry your cumin.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 21, 2017 05:45 PM (psH+N)

388 The worst thing is people who stop in doorways to have a conversation. They are the ultimate self-absorbed. This group used to be mostly women, but as men have become more feminized I see this behavior in men now, too.

Posted by: Locke Common at July 21, 2017 05:42 PM (mLnfL)

I can think of one thing worse offhand:

Stopping at the top of an escalator to figure out whatever, instead of getting the hell out of the way. The people behind on the escalator are coming up and there's nothing that you or they can do about it.

Posted by: filbert at July 21, 2017 05:45 PM (s5o+q)

389 bike riders are a whole separate special plague from hell. they should take out the bike lanes and put out a bounty.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:45 PM (0wem/)

390 "How many Morons have elbowed a girl in the boob in a crowded bar?"

I don't go to bars, crowded or otherwise. Or anywhere for that matter.

Posted by: Insomniac, Pimp Hand of the Patriarchy at July 21, 2017 05:45 PM (0mRoj)

391 "How many Morons have elbowed a girl in the boob in a crowded bar?"

Sandra Bulloch used to have/may still have a place on Tybee Island here.

A friend of ours was in a bar where she and some girlfriends were partying, and as she walked to the ladies room, he got a shoulder full of her butt, which he totally enjoyed.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:45 PM (PY9jH)

392 Rascal riding people will homer up a good moving flow of pedestrians.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 05:46 PM (mcI77)

393 Ignoramus: "I walk through an often crowded Grand Central twice daily. Lots of people moving in very different directions, at different speeds, tourists and shitheads taking selfies."

That sounds like my every commute.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 21, 2017 05:46 PM (H8S+R)

394 Perhaps NYC is not the place for you.

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:40 PM (LAe3v)

You got a problem with me?

I take the subway very infrequently, and even that is too much.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 21, 2017 05:46 PM (wYseH)

395 y5, I was not a jerk on my bike. I valued staying off the pavement and staying alive. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 21, 2017 05:46 PM (eMKNe)

396 It worked. They would turn, see me and stay stopped, or stop if they were moving forward slightly.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 21, 2017 05:43 PM (eMKNe)

When I'm driving and there's someone on a bike, I wave at them to go.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:46 PM (Ri/rl)

397 Right Turn Blockers, Noooo!!

I think the problem there is that most women have lousy spatial skills. This would account for the map reading and parallel parking problems. In the right turn context, I think that they have trouble judging how far they are from the car on their left, and so hug the curb to ensure they left enough room.

The bad part is when they're in an oncoming car in a residential area, when they tend drive down the middle of the road, because they can't tell how far they are from parked cars. Which, of course, is stupid, because if you're going to hit something, hit it a velocity V instead of velocity 2V.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 05:46 PM (SRKgf)

398 Real Men don't use shopping carts.

Posted by: garrett at July

shopping carts are ok but luggage with wheels is strictly verboten.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:46 PM (0wem/)

399 >>>Also, Ace, your giant friend is kind of a dick.

Nah he had a point. And the guy he bodychecked to the ground was a guy, and should have looked out where he was walking.

The world ain't required to get out of one's way.

Being aware of other people, and being courteous, are good things. And sometimes people who are rude and oblivious find out why we have etiquettes that keep us from running into each other.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:46 PM (8rNrN)

400 337 I have been on the side of an aisle at the grocery store perusing items and have actually had people step in front of me. I mean, directly in front of me as if I was invisible. My line "Oh, I am sorry, am I in your way?". Some get it and some don't.
Posted by: Cheri at July 21, 2017 05:37 PM (oiNtH)

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I'll wait courteously for one minute. If you haven't moved on from the item I want, I'm stepping in front of you.

Posted by: Soona at July 21, 2017 05:46 PM (Fmupd)

401 I'm about to leave work and hit the traffic. Exiting the parking lot someone has to yield so I can get out. I've never had to wait more than two cars before someone will yield. I don't think the majority are bad.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 21, 2017 05:46 PM (JJev6)

402 Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:41 PM (CNHr1)

I know what you mean and I will do that as well always saying "pardon me". My example was close to the items but enough for some snotty skinny broad to get in front of me.

I think that so many people live in their own little bubbles and have no situational awareness or courtesy.

Posted by: Cheri at July 21, 2017 05:47 PM (oiNtH)

403 CaliGirl, me too, or at least I try to.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 21, 2017 05:47 PM (eMKNe)

404 >>"How many Morons have elbowed a girl in the boob in a crowded bar?"

Never.

Of course, the only way you'd find me in a crowded bar is if they had my wake there on Superbowl Sunday.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2017 05:47 PM (beJsD)

405 I've been groped as I walked by some dude with a tray of drinks over my head. I set the tray down and slapped the guy and the bouncers beat his ass. My sister hit him with her high heel shoe.
Don't touch me.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:44 PM (Ri/rl)

This is the part where AtC says "come sit next to me"

Posted by: kbdabear at July 21, 2017 05:47 PM (3i2nH)

406 329 "You could start by disciplining your f***ing brat."

Sitting in a neighborhood restaurant one evening and the couple with their uncontrolled 5 year old were behind us in a booth. Little brat flopping around, whining and all things annoying. A local popo walks in the door and the parents tell their little starfish "if you don't behave he'll take you to jail".

I snapped. Got up and stood over their table and told them they were the problem with their child's behavior and the policeman did not deserve to be involved in their problem. I picked up my food and as I was moving into the bar I heard the applause behind me.

Posted by: DanMan at July 21, 2017 05:47 PM (XTiHL)

407 they should take out the bike lanes and put out a bounty.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:45 PM (0wem/)

Then the preening asshole CitiBike riders would have to find something else with which to virtue signal.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 21, 2017 05:47 PM (wYseH)

408 When you find a seemingly abandoned grocery cart in the middle of the
aisle, or blocking your exit from said aisle, it absolutely will be a
man's cart. Men leave the cart in a stationary position, go hunt down
items, and bring them back to the cart.

Really disagree on this one. From my experience, it's almost always women.

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:47 PM (LAe3v)

409 389 bike riders are a whole separate special plague from hell. they should take out the bike lanes and put out a bounty.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:45 PM (0wem/)

In Portland they are going to charge them $15 a year for a bicycle registration. The douchenozzles are livid. LOL

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 05:48 PM (mcI77)

410 Germans tend to converse blocking doorways

Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill formerly from Canada at July 21, 2017 05:48 PM (JQ5d4)

411 When we were in NYC a few months ago, we took the subway to the WTC memorial.

After spending a long, emotionally draining time in the museum, I told my husband I couldn't take the long, smelly ride back to the hotel. We lucked out, and an Uber driver appeared as if by magic as we were trying to wave down a cab. Worth every cent.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:48 PM (PY9jH)

412 I noticed that when I'm dressed in full military camouflage, with my m14 at port arms and walking down the sidewalk, I tend to get a wide berth from all those I meet.

Posted by: Strobe at July 21, 2017 05:48 PM (gbWkA)

413 DanMan, wow, you've got bigger balls than I. ;-)

And speaking of general rudeness...

I am thinking of just plain trying to *stop* going to my nearby casino. Last night I played and while I *didn't* lose very much money, I had no less than two assholes calling me names while playing.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 21, 2017 05:49 PM (eMKNe)

414 341 How many 'Ettes have been elbowed in the boob in a crowded bar?

Posted by: kbdabear at July 21, 2017 05:38 PM (3i2nH)

Forgive my insensitivity to those 'Ettes who are height challenged like The Empress...

So how many of you have been knee'd in the boob in a crowded bar?

Posted by: kbdabear at July 21, 2017 05:49 PM (3i2nH)

415 [eye roll] The world like resolves around me...why don't you like get that n'stuff?

Posted by: Some Liberal Millenial at July 21, 2017 05:49 PM (aZq03)

416 luggage with wheels is strictly verboten.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:46 PM (0wem/)

Fly into Heathrow and you will change your mind.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 21, 2017 05:49 PM (wYseH)

417 412 I noticed that when I'm dressed in full military camouflage, with my m14 at port arms and walking down the sidewalk, I tend to get a wide berth from all those I meet.
Posted by: Strobe at July 21, 2017 05:48 PM (gbWkA)

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Amazing, isn't it?

Posted by: SMFH at July 21, 2017 05:49 PM (s5Kql)

418 In Africa drivers go to the place where there's a hole. Lanes don't matter.

Posted by: Hillary at July 21, 2017 05:50 PM (hJrjt)

419 399 >>>Also, Ace, your giant friend is kind of a dick.

Nah he had a point. And the guy he bodychecked to the ground was a guy, and should have looked out where he was walking.

The world ain't required to get out of one's way.

Being aware of other people, and being courteous, are good things. And sometimes people who are rude and oblivious find out why we have etiquettes that keep us from running into each other.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:46 PM (8rNrN)

He could have just stopped and made the other guy walk around him. Still makes the point.

Posted by: Ace's liver at July 21, 2017 05:50 PM (Xuv2G)

420 Then the preening asshole CitiBike riders would have to find something else with which to virtue signal.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July

heh. a plague within a plague. they eliminated all the car parking on our block to put in citibank bikes. there were only 5 spots which were only available on the weekend but they took them all. the community board scrunt that was the big advocate for the citibikes somehow did not have any within two blocks of her lair.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:50 PM (0wem/)

421 The mistake this guy makes is he does not realize there are a lot of dumb people walking around oblivious to anyone or anything.

These people tend to vote democrat, by the way.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 21, 2017 05:50 PM (5VlCp)

422 This reinforces my blind experience. People will get out of your way if they see you have some sort of disability.

It also means that people do in fact see other people coming and not getting out of the way is a conscious choice.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 05:39 PM (/tuJf)

Or you know, something out of the ordinary alerts the people to be aware and is slightly out of place in the sea of people.

Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 05:50 PM (z/Ubi)

423 People put their kids in shopping carts. Young kids. The ones who can't control their bowels.

I'll stick with the handbasket.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2017 05:50 PM (beJsD)

424 Yuck.. just tried a new tequila. What was I thinking? Tastes like crap.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:50 PM (CNHr1)

425 bike riders are a whole separate special plague from hell. they should take out the bike lanes and put out a bounty.

I've seen bike messengers get hit by cars in downtown Boston and people have applauded. They are not universally beloved.

Posted by: tu3031 at July 21, 2017 05:50 PM (qJhUV)

426 Happens all the time to me, here on the fringes of Diverse City.

I have always moved aside, it's good manners. But I have noticed that, as I've gotten older, a certain class of younger women will put that damnable challenging look in their eyes, and not move. Well, that's especially at the local mall, which I barely frequent anymore. I have been known to stop in my tracks, and just look at them with a tight smile on my face. They move.

The thing that really gets me is the retards that have the headlights on their cars aimed too high. Sheesh. Blinded, whether they're oncoming or behind me. I used to move my side mirror to shine the light right back at them (because they are tailgating, too) and "voila!" They back off. Nowadays, I usually just pull off the road and let them pass. I very very much want to shine my brights on them, but then, I don't want to be shot.

Posted by: Flyover pilgrim at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (ZHm8z)

427
Ah, that's the correct term -- the "seam." Precisely. Men can find the seam in a chaotic crowd.. Women can't.
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:30 PM (DQ4Fv)

That's way off base. I'm really good at that, when I'm not slowed down by having my older husband in tow.

Posted by: stace at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (wH8rX)

428 Now, my friend who actually is a dick pulled this move:

We were walking down the street. Guy is walking towards us, some rando, but he's got a big old pony tail and he's wearing (seriously) leather pants, matching leather vest, matching leather suit jacket, and like alligator boots that weren't a direct match but complimented the rest of the leather.

Without warning, without giving me a head's up, he SEIZES the guy by the shoulders as we pass, shakes him enthusiastically, and shouts "DUDE, I HAVE ALL OF YOUR ALBUMS! YOU'RE A *GOD* TO ME!!!"

Then he sort of tosses him aside and walks on as if none of it had happened.

Six steps later, as the guys is wondering what the hell just happened, my friend just gave me a sidelong look and grinned.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (8rNrN)

429 My wife read a book recently about Upper Class women in NY. There is apparently a hierarchy on the sidewalk based on how fancy your purse is.
Also insane amount of competition to get their tykes into the right preschool.

Posted by: Caleb Herod at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (pPnD+)

430 In Portland they are going to charge them $15 a year for a bicycle registration. The douchenozzles are livid. LOL
Posted by: Under Fire at July

sigh. such a nice thought.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (0wem/)

431 Extreme body odor creates space--or so I've observed.

Posted by: Hillary at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (hJrjt)

432 I move for no man.

Posted by: The Black Knight at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (ANIFC)

433 Ha! Grew up in a small and polite Central California town, got married right after High School and moved with my new bride to SF for college. Walk dodging drove me crazy, no one watched where they were going. So I took up a squared shoulders, spin 'em off style of traversing the Financial District sidewalks. Had a few "interesting" encounters, but funny enough not too many.

Still drive my wife crazy after all these years when I take that attitude...

Posted by: jestersix at July 21, 2017 05:52 PM (0NdPS)

434
People put their kids in shopping carts. Young kids. The ones who can't control their bowels.

I'll stick with the handbasket.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2017 05:50 PM (beJsD)

There's a "thing" here with millennials and "emotional support dogs." I was in Kroger recently, and a hipster couple had their "support" dog in the shopping cart.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:52 PM (PY9jH)

435 >>>He could have just stopped and made the other guy walk around him. Still makes the point.

sometimes you need to give a fellow the moral guidance his father failed to.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:52 PM (8rNrN)

436
I noticed that when I'm dressed in full military camouflage, with my m14 at port arms and walking down the sidewalk, I tend to get a wide berth from all those I meet. Posted by: Strobe at July 21, 2017 05:48 PM (gbWkA)

You don't walk at port arms you march

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 21, 2017 05:52 PM (lKyWE)

437 Wicked Pinto is IN THE HOUSE!

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 05:52 PM (LAe3v)

438 410 Germans tend to converse blocking doorways
Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill formerly from Canada at July 21, 2017 05:48 PM (JQ5d4)

And yet, if you're stopped and don't move to the side on the escalator they'll give you the evil Teutonic eye.

Posted by: Ace's liver at July 21, 2017 05:52 PM (Xuv2G)

439 . Then, just sits there as the elevator waits to close the doors again, instead of hitting "Close Doors."

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:36 PM (8rNrN)

Most of those "close doors" buttons are totally inoperative. They're just there to make you feel good. People like to push buttons ... like when you're waiting for an elevator and someone keeps pushing the lit button, as if there's a little bell calling the elevator guy.

P.S. When I lived in Manhattan we did have an elevator guy and the button did ring a bell ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 21, 2017 05:52 PM (rZ+mb)

440 FWIW, I am white and female and feel like I am always the one moving out of the way on the sidewalk! I frequently wonder whether the oncoming pedestrians would have shifted to their right or left if I hadn't done it already as soon as I saw them approaching.

The other thing I notice is how frequently in recent years I've held a door for someone (usually another woman) who doesn't bother to say "thanks."

Posted by: BethinPA at July 21, 2017 05:52 PM (hvTlR)

441 When I was in training to become a Pediatrician my son who was just learning to read saw a sign that said "Pedestrian Crossing" He said, "Hey look Dad, a You Crossing!"

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 05:52 PM (wPiJc)

442 I always try to be aware of people around me and give them space when walking. I think I have a bit of claustrophobia so I try to make up for that in that way.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2017 05:53 PM (iVOAv)

443 That's way off base. I'm really good at that, when I'm not slowed down by having my older husband in tow.
Posted by: stace at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (wH8rX)

I'm really good at that too. Plus I'm smaller than my husband so I can squeeze through chairs and people better than he can.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:53 PM (Ri/rl)

444 I'm fine with bikers who want to insist they're vehicles just like cars, but you don't get to run red lights and decide which rules you prefer.

Also, EACH of you is a car equivalent. Your group is not an 18 wheeler with a trailer. Space out and allow traffic to flow, you selfish f*ckers.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 21, 2017 05:53 PM (psH+N)

445 Also, Ace, your giant friend is kind of a dick.

Why you gotta be mean to Chewbacca like that?

Posted by: buzzion at July 21, 2017 05:53 PM (z/Ubi)

446 Then he sort of tosses him aside and walks on as if none of it had happened.

Six steps later, as the guys is wondering what the hell just happened, my friend just gave me a sidelong look and grinned.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (8rNrN)

That is stupendous.

I don't have the quick wits to do that. I would just call the guy a preening ass and probably get into an altercation.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 21, 2017 05:54 PM (wYseH)

447 >>Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (8rNrN)

Hahaha. Awesome.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2017 05:54 PM (beJsD)

448 Christmas shopping years ago in a big mall in Canada no idea what to get , after about 3 hours I sat down and felt my knees they were burning from dodging around people. Some woman was backing up walking and bumped into me.

Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill formerly from Canada at July 21, 2017 05:54 PM (JQ5d4)

449 >>>Most of those "close doors" buttons are totally inoperative.

not this one, i've used it successfully.

Yeah, that was a really really minor complaint I shouldn't have brought up but this has turned into a bitch about everything thread and I just wanted to complain.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:54 PM (8rNrN)

450 Fly into Heathrow and you will change your mind.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July

heh, that would be miserable but since I have made such a point of refusing luggage with wheels for so long I would drag my garment bag by the trap before I would surrender to wheels.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 05:54 PM (0wem/)

451 431
Extreme body odor creates space--or so I've observed.

Posted by: Hillary

Not to mention the projectile defecation.

Posted by: Huma at July 21, 2017 05:54 PM (LAe3v)

452 It's evolution. Asians can't drive, women are used to men stepping aside. Generalization for sure, but statistically true

Posted by: gregv61 at July 21, 2017 05:55 PM (+15Q9)

453 hey Ace, great to see ya here again. ;-)

Any chance you will be at the MOAM?

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 21, 2017 05:55 PM (eMKNe)

454 We were at an international conference recently, and I noticed a lot of middle-eastern looking men would practically shove me out of their way. I got separated from my husband in a huge crowd, and he was having no problem getting through, but I had to struggle to get past several glaring men with body odor problems.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:55 PM (PY9jH)

455 >>>That is stupendous.

I don't have the quick wits to do that. I would just call the guy a preening ass and probably get into an altercation.

...

I have no idea when he thought of doing that, if it was spontaneous or he had a longtime plan to one day do it, or if he had done it before, or what.

it was pretty amazing.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:55 PM (8rNrN)

456 I was watching some show on NetFlix about algorithms. There are studies of how masses of people move in train stations and malls.

Posted by: Hillary at July 21, 2017 05:55 PM (hJrjt)

457 Do they still enforce Jay Walking laws in NYC?
Anywhere really?

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 05:56 PM (mcI77)

458 Employing Black Knight tactics in your everyday life can be surprisingly rewarding..... But if you live in a smallish town, it's a terrible idea.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 21, 2017 05:56 PM (2qHjF)

459 >>The other thing I notice is how frequently in recent years I've held a door for someone (usually another woman) who doesn't bother to say "thanks."

I always say welcome when this happens. And it happens a lot.

Just my way of saying fuck you.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 05:56 PM (/tuJf)

460 Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (8rNrN)

Yes, that really is a dick move as well as being a narcissistic one.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2017 05:56 PM (iVOAv)

461 In Portland they are going to charge them $15 a year for a bicycle registration. The douchenozzles are livid. LOL

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 05:48 PM (mcI77)

Proggies never seem to learn that after they chase Other Peoples Money out, THEIR money becomes Other Peoples Money

Posted by: kbdabear at July 21, 2017 05:56 PM (3i2nH)

462 I think it depends on which part of the country you are from as well. Here in MissourAH people are pretty polite. Except Walmart people. They usually suck. I think they bus them in from the Ozarks.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 05:56 PM (CNHr1)

463 Off sock.

Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 21, 2017 05:56 PM (hJrjt)

464 Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (8rNrN)

Okay, that's funny.

I want alligator cowboy boots.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:56 PM (Ri/rl)

465 It has always struck me as strange that the children of the nouveau riche have a hierarchy based upon whose birth canal they came out of.

Posted by: Strobe at July 21, 2017 05:57 PM (gbWkA)

466 Yeah, that was a really really minor complaint I shouldn't have brought up but this has turned into a bitch about everything thread and I just wanted to complain.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:54 PM (8rNrN)

No, it was a valid complaint.

I used to get a little wound up if someone was running to the elevator and I caught the door to open it for them and then they stood in the front and watched someone else run to the elevator and let it just shut in their face. What a dick move. I felt like just pushing them into the closed door.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 21, 2017 05:57 PM (rZ+mb)

467 I've never had to deal with a pedestrian Segway conundrum. How does that usually play out?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 05:57 PM (wPiJc)

468 I love the people in Costco who think they're the only ones in the store and leave their cart in the middle of an isle and an angle while they read the 3 gallon can of pork n' beans, or use the cart to block the entire cheese section so they can stand next to it and stare at pastrami. Then there's the ones that walk backwards while talking to somebody else.

I think people who grew up staring at monitors have no clue about the world around them. I go by tonnage rights. A sailboat or powerboat gets out of the way of a
freighter, no matter who's in the right. A Fiat moves for a garbage
truck even if they have the green light, if they know what's good for them anyway.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at July 21, 2017 05:57 PM (RHEDC)

469 Now, I have to confess that I act differently in the DC metro and out in the real America. If you give an inch here you're victimized.

Posted by: dagny at July 21, 2017 05:57 PM (wZuWv)

470 >>Do they still enforce Jay Walking laws in NYC?

Growing up, it was survival of the fittest / free for all.
The delivery trucks and taxis would weed out the weak ones.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2017 05:57 PM (beJsD)

471 Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:44 PM (Ri/rl)

As it should be.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 21, 2017 05:57 PM (pDZCs)

472 I'm a Scotch man, but I made the wife a batch of pomegranate vodka Cosmopolitans, and man, they're kicking my backside. Refreshing!

Posted by: Huma at July 21, 2017 05:58 PM (LAe3v)

473 I used to get a little wound up if someone was running to the elevator and I caught the door to open it for them and then they stood in the front and watched someone else run to the elevator and let it just shut in their face. What a dick move. I felt like just pushing them into the closed door.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

The best part is when you push 'em out, and their leg gets stuck in the closed door.

Then the elevator moves and breaks their leg off!! Blood gushing everywhere!! Laff riot!!!! ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 21, 2017 05:58 PM (eMKNe)

474
I'm a Scotch man, but I made the wife a batch of pomegranate vodka
Cosmopolitans, and man, they're kicking my backside. Refreshing!

Posted by: Huma at July 21, 2017 05:58 PM (LAe3v)

Hillary drinks Cosmos?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:58 PM (PY9jH)

475 Question. How hard is it to pick ketchup? Or sour cream? Why do people stand there and contemplate such items forever? Do they not have a preference already? Wtf?

Posted by: dagny at July 21, 2017 05:59 PM (wZuWv)

476 my pet peeve is when i'm exiting a store and whoever is coming in just rushes in so i have to stop.

i was there first.

not the end of the world and i guess it can be compared to the pulling into a parking space vs. backing in seinfeld epi.

Posted by: concrete girl at July 21, 2017 05:59 PM (CAbep)

477 I don't mind the "walking on the sidewalk" stuff too much but people at the supermarket just annoy the living shit out of me.

They park their carts on one side of the aisle and then stand next to it (thereby completely blocking the aisle) while taking forever to read the tiny little print on the package they usually decide not to buy after all.

Or they bend over to peer at something on a lower shelf, thereby shoving their ass so far out that it's impossible to pass them.

Or they bring their friends/girlfriends/kids along and sllllloooowwwwly move through the store, blocking the aisles as they go.

My wife won't even go to the store any more because people don't respect personal space. They come right up behind her and reach past her to get the thing they want. No "excuse me", either.

So I shop at 6am or whenever the store opens. Get in, use the shopping list, and get out as fast as possible.

People! <insert disgusted tone of voice here>

Posted by: Scars at July 21, 2017 05:59 PM (jiQvT)

478 454 We were at an international conference recently, and I noticed a lot of middle-eastern looking men would practically shove me out of their way. I got separated from my husband in a huge crowd, and he was having no problem getting through, but I had to struggle to get past several glaring men with body odor problems.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 05:55 PM (PY9jH)

That sounds horrible. If we are in a sketchy crowd I let my husband lead the way and I walk behind him with a death grip on his shirt.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 05:59 PM (Ri/rl)

479 Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (8rNrN)

Why does this keep happening to me?

Posted by: Dude in leather outfit at July 21, 2017 05:59 PM (RwwCT)

480 467. Pedestrian yields to the Segway. As it passes, ped grabs Segway dude by the manbun and gives xis social media accounts something to cry about.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 21, 2017 06:00 PM (fA1SL)

481 Six steps later, as the guys is wondering what the hell just happened, my friend just gave me a sidelong look and grinned.

Oh wow, that is hilarious!

Posted by: no good deed at July 21, 2017 06:00 PM (hsb2w)

482 And this is more often than not limited to wide-hipped, younger women for some reason. It's also usually pretty purposeful. It has to be.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel

I point and say "Muffintops!"

They move.

Posted by: fedup at July 21, 2017 06:00 PM (3hIZX)

483 My line "Oh, I am sorry, am I in your way?". Some get it and some don't.

Posted by: Cheri at July 21, 2017 05:37 PM (oiNtH)

My line is to sneeze all over the back of their necks.

Posted by: kathysaysso at July 21, 2017 06:00 PM (vkS2Z)

484 >>I want alligator cowboy boots.

Posted by: CaliGirl

I keep looking at those. I have a nice lizard pair that I'm fond of though.

Posted by: Aviator at July 21, 2017 06:00 PM (/Nite)

485 I think I mostly get out of other peoples way on the streets, or I did back when I lived in more populous areas ... I gotta say I always saw it as what people with sharper situational awareness do.

Yes, I do that park-the-cart-out-of-the-flow and wander around thing a lot; it helps me navigate around all of the maroons blocking the aisles while socializing with their friends or contemplating The Infinite as represented on the label of a can of lima beans.

This reminds me of something Derb said once: "A lot of racism complaints happen because black people don't understand how rude white people are to each other.(paraphrased)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at July 21, 2017 06:00 PM (Mcvvl)

486 I'm a Scotch man, but I made the wife a batch of pomegranate vodka

Cosmopolitans, and man, they're kicking my backside. Refreshing!

Posted by: Huma at July 21, 2017 05:58 PM (LAe3v)

Hillary drinks Cosmos?

Posted by: Jane D'oh

D'oh!

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 06:00 PM (LAe3v)

487 I have no idea when he thought of doing that, if it was spontaneous or he had a longtime plan to one day do it, or if he had done it before, or what.

it was pretty amazing.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:55 PM (8rNrN)

---

My wife hates when we're approached by bums because I always ask them if they have any spare change or cigarettes before they get the chance.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 21, 2017 06:00 PM (psH+N)

488 In a store if the cart's blocking the aisle just ease up and bump them or the cart, wakes them up quick. Once was just putting something in the cart and looked ahead and there was my ahole former neighbor coming, I just went by without even looking.

Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill formerly from Canada at July 21, 2017 06:02 PM (JQ5d4)

489 My wife hates when we're approached by bums because I
always ask them if they have any spare change or cigarettes before they
get the chance.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo

Now that's funny.

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 06:02 PM (LAe3v)

490 Gentlemen move for women, the elderly and people of rank - not a hard concept except for the ill-mannered

Posted by: Rammajamma at July 21, 2017 06:03 PM (xIkNd)

491 Also, EACH of you is a car equivalent. Your group is not an 18 wheeler
with a trailer. Space out and allow traffic to flow, you selfish
f*ckers.

Specialized Bicycles HQ is in my town. These twits go out at lunchtime, 50 of 'em in a giant wad, taking up the entire street and continuing through lights after they've changed. It's like a murmuration of bikes, a huge undulating mass that's completely unpredictable. With as many drunk Mexicans as there are around here driving around in trucks, you'd think they'd be a little more careful.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at July 21, 2017 06:03 PM (RHEDC)

492 I've never had to deal with a pedestrian Segway conundrum. How does that usually play out?

There was a guy on what looked like the unicycle version of a Segway yelling "on your left" on the sidewalk in D.C. the other day. It looked like a Segway and a hoverboard had a baby. I was sorely tempted just to stick my arm out and clothesline him. He was obnoxious.

Posted by: no good deed at July 21, 2017 06:03 PM (hsb2w)

493 The vast overwhelming majority of hate crimes per the FBIUCS do not happen in the south or other regions the left would typically classify as "fly over" country but instead are places like NY.

So maybe the times is on to something.

Hmm.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 21, 2017 06:03 PM (tKBaZ)

494 This definitely happens too often. Many times in the past I have just stopped. Completely stopped. And stood my ground.

Posted by: Fake at July 21, 2017 06:03 PM (wFDuq)

495 475 Question. How hard is it to pick ketchup? Or sour cream? Why do people stand there and contemplate such items forever? Do they not have a preference already? Wtf?
Posted by: dagny at July 21, 2017 05:59 PM (wZuWv)

They're comparing calories. 21 calories per serving, or 22? Have to be careful about these things.

Then they're gonna go home and eat a pint of ice cream.

Posted by: Ace's liver at July 21, 2017 06:03 PM (Xuv2G)

496 I keep looking at those. I have a nice lizard pair that I'm fond of though.
Posted by: Aviator at July 21, 2017 06:00 PM (/Nite)

I like lizard boots too.
I have a pair of snakeskin boots. I had to ship them to my son and he shipped them to me because they're illegal in CA. Of course.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 06:04 PM (Ri/rl)

497 I like lizard boots too.
I have a pair of snakeskin boots. I had to ship them to my son and he shipped them to me because they're illegal in CA. Of course.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 06:04 PM (Ri/rl)

Good, I just got back in time for our lipstick lesbian. Can we get back to lesbian golf now?

Posted by: Country Boy at July 21, 2017 06:04 PM (Jcg9Q)

498 My line is to sneeze all over the back of their necks.

Posted by: kathysaysso at July 21, 2017 06:00 PM (vkS2Z)

---

I know a guy who will pour some bottled water in his hand and "sneeze" at people who aren't facing him by flicking the water while making a pretty convincing sneeze sound.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 21, 2017 06:05 PM (psH+N)

499 495
475 Question. How hard is it to pick ketchup? Or sour cream? Why do
people stand there and contemplate such items forever? Do they not have a
preference already? Wtf?

Posted by: dagny at July 21, 2017 05:59 PM (wZuWv)

They're comparing calories. 21 calories per serving, or 22? Have to be careful about these things.

Maybe they're inspecting for fruit flies. I bought some Costco tomatoes a couple of weeks ago and we've been fighting the little bastards ever since.

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 06:05 PM (LAe3v)

500 First, Ace is white? Many years here and I really could picture him other than an Ewok. Seriously you guys. Indeterminate color, just all haired up.

Next, I notice this in Rome. Eyetalians amirite? They just did not yield and would willingly bump you. After a few hours of being what we thought of as 'courteous' we discussed it at lunch and then both Heidi and I leaned into the shoulder. Bouncing off people seemed to be the thing to do. Except to those old eyetalian ladies dressed in black. They'll fuck you up.

Here in Phoenix we dont walk much around city streets, but noticed it in Portland and Seattle so fuck it. Not moving.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 21, 2017 06:05 PM (7CM5W)

501 We were at an international conference recently, and I noticed a lot of middle-eastern looking men would practically shove me out of their way.

I make it a policy to make them move. Or "scatter" might be a better word.

Posted by: dagny at July 21, 2017 06:05 PM (wZuWv)

502 My day is finally slowing down. I look forward to crashing and sleep or cocktail hour whichever comes first my way.

Happy Bday, Gushka. Bday is nearly over for you. Please tell me there were silver linings when we meet up next.

Happy 29th.

Don't forget to make a wish before you blow out the candles

Posted by: L, Elle at July 21, 2017 06:05 PM (8mOxN)

503 This has more to do with narcissism than racism, that is the narcissism of the author. People do what they do mostly because it makes their life easier or to mate.

Women don't get out of his way" because he is either viewed as an irrelevant character or because they want to get his attention to mate.

People are about themselves - their just not that into him.

Posted by: Freud at July 21, 2017 06:05 PM (mtGE/)

504 My wife does that to me in the home. I always thought it was an Asian thing.

Posted by: Pervy Grin at July 21, 2017 06:05 PM (t5SJk)

505 484 >>I want alligator cowboy boots.
How do you saddle up an alligator?

Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 21, 2017 06:06 PM (hJrjt)

506 >>>My wife hates when we're approached by bums because I always ask them if they have any spare change or cigarettes before they get the chance.

Hah.

when I was smoking, I'd get pestered by bums for a "spare" cigarette (like I got that special pack with 2 bonus cigarettes), I would take one out, light it up, and say "Sorry, I don't smoke."

I only did that a couple of times. It just gets annoying when you MUST go outside to smoke, and you know every minute you're out there some bum is going to be pestering you for a cigarette.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 06:06 PM (8rNrN)

507 Sometimes I like to get on a full elevator and stand facing the back.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 06:06 PM (wPiJc)

508 Boobs elbowed accidentally? I thought that was how you introduce yourself.

Posted by: RI Red - retired AND on vacation. at July 21, 2017 06:06 PM (PZ+aV)

509 My wife hates when we're approached by bums because I always ask them if they have any spare change or cigarettes before they get the chance.
Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 21, 2017 06:00 PM (psH+N)

I don't recall anyone begging from me but if I see an obvious beggar I'm stealing that line.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 06:06 PM (Ri/rl)

510 The other thing I notice is how frequently in recent years I've held a door for someone (usually another woman) who doesn't bother to say "thanks."

Beth, in my old age I've taken to saying to their retreating back, "why, you are so very welcome!" Yes, with sarcasm. I am a terrible Christian.

Posted by: Flyover pilgrim at July 21, 2017 06:07 PM (ZHm8z)

511 Or get on an elevator, read the "elevator capacity" in # of occupants or total weight, out loud.

Then look at the other occupants with a raised eyebrow.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 06:07 PM (wPiJc)

512 A lot of racism complaints happen because black people don't understand how rude white people are to each other.

If they grew up in the South, yeah, they saw a lot of white people being polite to each other. Going to Chicago they weren't hanging in the same 'hood as Al Capone. Capone was not polite . . .

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 21, 2017 06:08 PM (6FqZa)

513 I don't recall anyone begging from me but if I see an obvious beggar I'm stealing that line.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July

what are you going to do if he offers you a dollar? be really rude to reject his generosity.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 06:08 PM (0wem/)

514 505 484 >>I want alligator cowboy boots.
How do you saddle up an alligator?
Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 21, 2017 06:06 PM (hJrjt)

You have the groom do it for you very carefully.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 06:08 PM (Ri/rl)

515 I've noticed black women are rather shitty at walking around in stores. intentionally. like they're getting some kind of mental reparations by blocking your path. whatevs sista.

Posted by: The Original REAL Galactic Lord Sir Covfefe at July 21, 2017 06:08 PM (nFwvY)

516 It is hard to change direction when you are schlepping a mattress

Posted by: Emma Sulkowicz at July 21, 2017 06:08 PM (mtGE/)

517 490 Gentlemen move for women, the elderly and people of rank - not a hard concept except for the ill-mannered

Posted by: Rammajamma at July 21, 2017 06:03 PM (xIkNd)

---

I freaked an old couple out last week when I was out with my son at an insurance office and we got out of our chairs so they could sit.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 21, 2017 06:09 PM (psH+N)

518 I took the scooter out a few weeks ago and took a real twisty back road to exercise the tires. I come around a blind curve and their are 4 cyclists pumping away. The woman cyclist IN BACK had her child in a tow trailer. I missed them by inches. There is no shoulder on this road.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 21, 2017 06:09 PM (mcI77)

519 Vegas question - anybody been to Cat's Curiosities Used Books? I may have to make a detour.

Also, I want every single one of these on my shelves, especially "Scouts in Bondage" and "Biggles Defies the Swastika". Oh, and "Tom Swift and his Big Dirigible".

http://tinyurl.com/y9a5vr49

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 21, 2017 06:09 PM (SaTQU)

520 I hate people who don't train their dogs. It's so freaking simple and makes for a satisfying relation with your pet.

A friend decided not to train the family pup because he "didn't want a Nazi robot" as a pet. As a result the animal is always out of control, and loves to fuck the shit out of their semi-autistic kid.

Kid doesn't seem to mind, so that's nice.

Posted by: Regular joe at July 21, 2017 06:09 PM (7PllL)

521 What are ya drinking L'Elle?

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 06:09 PM (CNHr1)

522 Here in Phoenix we dont walk much around city streets, but noticed it in Portland and Seattle so fuck it. Not moving.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 21, 2017 06:05 PM (7CM5W)

In Phoenix they have trucks that come around at night to pick up the dessicated bodies of people who tried to walk around during the day.

Posted by: Ace's liver at July 21, 2017 06:09 PM (Xuv2G)

523 Gentlemen move for women, the elderly and people of rank - not a hard concept except for the ill-mannered

Just out of curiosity, what "people of rank" are worth your genuflection?

Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 06:09 PM (LAe3v)

524 Bumming can happen anywhere but is certainly a east coast large city thing

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2017 06:09 PM (9g/6M)

525 when I was smoking, I'd get pestered by bums for a "spare" cigarette (like I got that special pack with 2 bonus cigarettes), I would take one out, light it up, and say "Sorry, I don't smoke."
I only did that a couple of times. It just gets annoying when you MUST go outside to smoke, and you know every minute you're out there some bum is going to be pestering you for a cigarette.
Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 06:06 PM (8rNrN)
****
So that was you?
I dont forget easily.

Posted by: L, Elle at July 21, 2017 06:10 PM (8mOxN)

526 what are you going to do if he offers you a dollar? be really rude to reject his generosity.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 06:08 PM (

I'll say psyched you out.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 06:10 PM (Ri/rl)

527 i never let people bum my ciggs.
bought and paid for is my motto.

Posted by: concrete girl at July 21, 2017 06:10 PM (CAbep)

528 @Eris

I'm not sure my library could survive a trip there.
I've had to stop going into Powells when I'm in Portland. I come out with shopping bags full of books.

I seriously worry if I'm going to live long enough to read all the books I have and re-read my favorites.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 21, 2017 06:10 PM (3OIiX)

529 Has anyone ever noticed that when you're looking for a parking spot in a crowded lot and someone is leaving and notices you waiting for that spot, they'll fuss with the mirrors, controls, seat belts, etc.

It's like they're a 767 pilot doing their pre-flight checklist.

If anyone here does that, I'm your sworn enemy

Posted by: kbdabear at July 21, 2017 06:11 PM (3i2nH)

530 what are you going to do if he offers you a dollar? be really rude to reject his generosity.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 06:08 PM (

I'll say psyched you out.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July

just stick with have a nice day.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 06:11 PM (0wem/)

531 523 Gentlemen move for women, the elderly and people of rank - not a hard concept except for the ill-mannered

Just out of curiosity, what "people of rank" are worth your genuflection?
Posted by: pep at July 21, 2017 06:09 PM (LAe3v)

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Was wondering the same thing.

Posted by: SMFH at July 21, 2017 06:11 PM (s5Kql)

532 There is a man who is a master pick-pocket. He says there are secrets of how to approach a human without them detecting it. One thing is if you walk straight at a person, you will threaten them, but if you approach them from a diagonal direction is less threatening and noticable.

So if they aren't noticing a giant person approaching straight ahead, it seems they are as "out of it" as possible, or ignoring this response, like a trained mannerism.

Posted by: goodluckduck at July 21, 2017 06:11 PM (yqvys)

533 306 Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 05:23 PM (DQ4Fv)

I don't know. I can move through a crowd faster than my husband. I was a cocktail waitress. I had to maneuver through crowds.

Posted by: CaliGirl

Yes!

The only people better at slipping through crowds than halfbacks are COCKTAIL WAITRESSES!

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2017 06:11 PM (DQ4Fv)

534 >>I only did that a couple of times. It just gets annoying when you MUST go outside to smoke, and you know every minute you're out there some bum is going to be pestering you for a cigarette.

I see where this is headed.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2017 06:11 PM (/tuJf)

535 I've noticed black women are rather shitty at walking around in stores. intentionally. like they're getting some kind of mental reparations by blocking your path. whatevs sista.

Posted by: The Original REAL Galactic Lord Sir Covfefe at July 21, 2017 06:08 PM (nFwvY)

Ha I'm headed to a big city Walmart in a few, now I've got something to do to amuse myself while I'm there, instead of thinking there's no hope for this country (my usual thought process at WM).

Posted by: Country Boy at July 21, 2017 06:11 PM (Jcg9Q)

536 When people play idiot chicken with me I just stop, turn sideways and look absent mindedly up at the sky. Never been walked into yet.

Of course, the ongoing ranting monologuue with emphatic hand gestures on my part probably helps people avoid me too....

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at July 21, 2017 06:11 PM (fMBcz)

537 "Just out of curiosity, what "people of rank" are worth your genuflection?"

Thanks, pep, I was wondering the same thing.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at July 21, 2017 06:12 PM (Mcvvl)

538 Hi Jewells. Not drinking yet. I'm bumming cigs in a parking lot right now. Once I'm done and get home,Vodka Martinis!
Or sleep

Posted by: L, Elle at July 21, 2017 06:12 PM (8mOxN)

539 530
Duh! Take the money and say something like 'Thanks, God bless,'

Standard hobo stuff, really.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 21, 2017 06:12 PM (fA1SL)

540 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 21, 2017 06:10 PM (3OIiX)
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I feel that same delicious pain. And yet I am going to another library book sale this week.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 21, 2017 06:12 PM (SaTQU)

541 506 >>>My wife hates when we're approached by bums because I always ask them if they have any spare change or cigarettes before they get the chance.

Hah.

when I was smoking, I'd get pestered by bums for a "spare" cigarette (like I got that special pack with 2 bonus cigarettes), I would take one out, light it up, and say "Sorry, I don't smoke."

I only did that a couple of times. It just gets annoying when you MUST go outside to smoke, and you know every minute you're out there some bum is going to be pestering you for a cigarette.

Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 06:06 PM (8rNrN)

My dad gave me a lesson on socialism at a young age. He got asked for a cigarette by a bum in the Bronx. He willingly gave him one. The guy took it and said '"can I have one for later?" Dad said nothing but tapped out another one. The guy took it, stashed it and said. "Can I have the pack?" My dad said "go get a fucking job." Then he said to me. "See, you give someone something for nothing and they'll never appreciate it. They'll just want more."

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 21, 2017 06:12 PM (7CM5W)

542 Here in Phoenix we dont walk much around city streets

******

I was standing on a corner in Winslow, AZ, it was such a fine sight to see. It was a girl, my lord, in a flatbed ford, slowin' down to take a look at me.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 06:12 PM (wPiJc)

543 Gentlemen move for women, the elderly and people of rank - not a hard concept except for the ill-mannered

I'll need to find a good top hat and a monocle. I could absolutely rock a monocle.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 21, 2017 06:13 PM (6FqZa)

544 Just out of curiosity, what "people of rank" are worth your genuflection?"

Redcoats?

Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 21, 2017 06:13 PM (0mRoj)

545 >>, what "people of rank" are worth your genuflection?

Women who rate an 8.1 or better.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2017 06:13 PM (beJsD)

546 Take it easy, Muldoon.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 21, 2017 06:13 PM (3OIiX)

547 L, Elle
have the best day ever tomorrow

Posted by: concrete girl at July 21, 2017 06:14 PM (CAbep)

548 "Just out of curiosity, what "people of rank" are worth your genuflection?"

*****

Duchesses and up. Viscounts are right out.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 06:14 PM (wPiJc)

549 Fuck you right in the god damned ear, Muldoon!

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2017 06:14 PM (beJsD)

550 I never let people bum my ciggs.
bought and paid for is my motto.
Posted by: concrete girl at July 21, 2017 06:10 PM
****
You're 2 up on Acehy my scoreboard

Posted by: L, Elle at July 21, 2017 06:14 PM (8mOxN)

551 93 In Texas , cars must yield to pedestrians in parking lot's egress ingress to the store.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 21, 2017 05:01 PM (JJev6)

That's true in Florida too. Of course a lot of the old folks can't hear the cars coming or even comprehend it's going to hit them.

Posted by: kbdabear at July 21, 2017 06:14 PM (3i2nH)

552 lol L'Elle. *gets ready to make L"elle a vodka martini and pass it thru the USB port*

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 06:15 PM (CNHr1)

553 Beth, in my old age I've taken to saying to their retreating back, "why, you are so very welcome!" Yes, with sarcasm. I am a terrible Christian.
Posted by: Flyover pilgrim at July 21, 2017 06:07 PM (ZHm8z)

I like this idea a lot! And now I'll have it in mind and ready to go next time it happens

Posted by: BethinPA at July 21, 2017 06:15 PM (hvTlR)

554
I was standing on a corner in Winslow, AZ, it was such a fine sight to see. It was a girl, my lord, in a flatbed ford, slowin' down to take a look at me.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 06:12 PM (wPiJc)

Oh God, not this again.

/s

Posted by: Country Boy at July 21, 2017 06:15 PM (Jcg9Q)

555 @Eris

Library sales are so awesome/dangerous.
I just this week got a hardback copy of Lincoln's speeches and writings for $2.50 at a library sale. I was almost ashamed that it sold for so little.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 21, 2017 06:15 PM (3OIiX)

556 Sometimes I think perhaps my Negro Fatigue cannot possibly become any more profound.
Then I read some horseshit like this.

Posted by: Major1 at July 21, 2017 06:15 PM (xGt2P)

557 * 2 up on Ace by my scoreboard.

Posted by: L, Elle at July 21, 2017 06:15 PM (8mOxN)

558 Shia LaDoof tried to bum a cig off an off-duty cop here, and that didn't end well.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2017 06:16 PM (PY9jH)

559 The thing that really gets me is the retards that have the headlights on their cars aimed too high. Sheesh. Blinded, whether they're oncoming or behind me. I used to move my side mirror to shine the light right back at them (because they are tailgating, too) and "voila!" They back off. Nowadays, I usually just pull off the road and let them pass. I very very much want to shine my brights on them, but then, I don't want to be shot.
Posted by: Flyover pilgrim at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (ZHm8z)

Those LED headlights are too !@#$% bright! They dazzle the shit out of the other drivers.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 06:16 PM (SRKgf)

560 i never let people bum my ciggs.
bought and paid for is my motto.

Posted by: concrete girl at July 21, 2017 06:10 PM (CAbep)
....

here in CA it's like handing out dollar bills

Posted by: wth at July 21, 2017 06:16 PM (HgMAr)

561 "547 L, Elle
have the best day ever tomorrow

Posted by: concrete girl"

I dunno what that's about, but it seems like a sentiment worth echoing !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at July 21, 2017 06:16 PM (Mcvvl)

562
In Phoenix they have trucks that come around at night to pick up the dessicated bodies of people who tried to walk around during the day.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 21, 2017 06:09 PM (Xuv2G)

That funny.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 21, 2017 06:16 PM (7CM5W)

563 Why doesn't anybody care what we do?

Posted by: black women at July 21, 2017 06:16 PM (yqvys)

564 no, have the best day ever today.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 06:17 PM (0wem/)

565 535 I've noticed black women are rather shitty at walking around in stores. intentionally. like they're getting some kind of mental reparations by blocking your path. whatevs sista.

Posted by: Country Boy at July 21, 2017 06:11 PM (Jcg9Q)

I have noticed that on freeways some will intentionally drive under the speed limit in the fast lane.

Posted by: kbdabear at July 21, 2017 06:17 PM (3i2nH)

566 then have the best day ever again on September 22, 23, and 24.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 21, 2017 06:17 PM (0wem/)

567 Muldoon's a desperado.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 21, 2017 06:17 PM (eMKNe)

568 Or get on an elevator, read the "elevator capacity" in # of occupants or total weight, out loud.

Then look at the other occupants with a raised eyebrow.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 06:07 PM (wPiJc)

LOL.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 21, 2017 06:17 PM (rZ+mb)

569 Those LED headlights are too !@#$% bright! They dazzle the shit out of the other drivers.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 06:16 PM (SRKgf)

Same with the emergency lights on cop cars/fire trucks. They're TOO bright now to the point of distraction.

Posted by: Country Boy at July 21, 2017 06:18 PM (Jcg9Q)

570 I dunno what that's about, but it seems like a sentiment worth echoing !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at July 21, 2017 06:16 PM (Mcvvl)
**
Thank you!
Merci Beaucoup

Posted by: L, Elle at July 21, 2017 06:18 PM (8mOxN)

571 My wife hates when we're approached by bums because I always ask them if they have any spare change or cigarettes before they get the chance.

I was walking with a squishy liberal friend and his wife when a panhandler approached and began clearing this throat.

I patted my friend on the chest and told the panhandler, "He's got LOTS of money."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 06:18 PM (SRKgf)

572 I just this week got a hardback copy of Lincoln's speeches and writings for $2.50 at a library sale. I was almost ashamed that it sold for so little.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 21, 2017 06:15 PM (3OIiX)
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I know! I feel like I'm running an orphanage for books. Why can't these lovely children find a home?

My biggest pounce was a two volume complete Shakespeare from the 1840's with engravings on almost every page that I got for 10 bucks each. That gem was moldering on a shelf and the Dan Browns were flying off the tables.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 21, 2017 06:19 PM (SaTQU)

573 Nood

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2017 06:19 PM (Ri/rl)

574 tomorrow is extra special y5

Posted by: concrete girl at July 21, 2017 06:19 PM (CAbep)

575 What's going on tomorrow L'Elle? What did I miss??

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 21, 2017 06:19 PM (CNHr1)

576 569 Those LED headlights are too !@#$% bright! They dazzle the shit out of the other drivers.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 06:16 PM (SRKgf)

Same with the emergency lights on cop cars/fire trucks. They're TOO bright now to the point of distraction.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 21, 2017 06:18 PM (Jcg9Q)

I hate those kids sneakers that light up all higley wiggly. I have flashbacks to the 60's.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 21, 2017 06:19 PM (7CM5W)

577 I patted my friend on the chest and told the panhandler, "He's got LOTS of money."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

******

Well played!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 21, 2017 06:20 PM (wPiJc)

578 Muldoon channeling some Steven Wright there with the elevator thing. Excellent.

Haven't been approached by a panhandler for some time, last time I recall it was at a gas station, when I was filling up. Now that's a very, very poor move - approaching a "captive" person like that.

So I was very aggressive and nasty and clearly scared the f**k out of the panhandler, who hurried away.

Guilt level: zero.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 21, 2017 06:20 PM (iynDC)

579 537 "Just out of curiosity, what "people of rank" are worth your genuflection?"

Thanks, pep, I was wondering the same thing.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at July 21, 2017 06:12 PM (Mcvvl)

Easy. Bums who don't bathe.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 06:20 PM (SRKgf)

580 OMG "Girls of the Pansy Patrol". Want.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 21, 2017 06:21 PM (SaTQU)

581 Ok I gotta go bump into some assholes in the street. later.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 21, 2017 06:22 PM (7CM5W)

582 Pet peeve when I lived in NJ. At rush hour there was always the A-type asshole in the BMW or Mercedes who drove along the shoulder as far as he could and would cut somebody off to get back into the lane.

For some reason I didn't see a lot of the rude freeway behavior in Southern California that I did in Jersey. I guess fear of getting shot by a gang member instills some courtesy.

Posted by: kbdabear at July 21, 2017 06:22 PM (3i2nH)

583 This issue parallels the guy that cruises down the lane that closes and then wants to merge at the last second.

When some self-important f*ckwad that believes his time is more important than mine attempts to merge in front of me, I stay a foot from the bumper of the car I'm behind and continue forward fully intent on wrecking my car if the individual attempts to wedge in.

Too date, the individuals have wound up surrendering in that game of chicken, but the day they clip me, not only will they receive dents on their car, but in their face as well.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at July 21, 2017 06:22 PM (Kd2ow)

584 Posted by: ace at July 21, 2017 05:51 PM (8rNrN)

I saw a guy like that in the Montego Bay airport.

Old guy, gray hair, ponytail, dressed in what is apparently the rock star or rock star-marque uniform of leather pants, etc, etc. standing around, sort of posed to look cool.

But, for the life of me, I couldn't come up with who he might be, so I was considering doing that very thing of walking up and acting like I knew who he was and was a fan....and seeing what happened.

The lovely and sensible Mrs naturalfake who was with me at the time, talked me out of it.

Better half indeed.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2017 06:22 PM (NyJwR)

585 You or teej better not spill, cg!

Our super sekrit. Has to stay that way

Posted by: L, Elle at July 21, 2017 06:23 PM (8mOxN)

586 "...girls in particular seem to not really care about the whole "Colliding bodies" thing when walking down the street."
......

Hmm. Maybe I'll try a "full frontal hug with reach around butt squeeze" collision next time I see a nice one coming.

Posted by: wth at July 21, 2017 06:24 PM (HgMAr)

587 Hold on a second...

Ace went to college?

Posted by: Fresh Air at July 21, 2017 06:24 PM (eJdkv)

588 Those LED headlights are too !@#$% bright! They dazzle the shit out of the other drivers.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 21, 2017 06:16 PM (SRKgf)

Same with the emergency lights on cop cars/fire trucks. They're TOO bright now to the point of distraction.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 21, 2017 06:18 PM (Jcg9Q)

I hate those kids sneakers that light up all higley wiggly. I have flashbacks to the 60's.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 21, 2017 06:19 PM (7CM5W)

I can see the strobing effect when these cars are behind me, drives me crazy.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2017 06:24 PM (dKiJG)

589 I don't wait for parking spots but my wife does, after driving up the aisle past all the empty ones. I just grab the first empty one I see. Walk more that way. My wife and her sister will go around looking for emptys for ten minutes, then walk around the mall for 3 hours. I don't shop with them anymore.

Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill formerly from Canada at July 21, 2017 06:24 PM (JQ5d4)

590 Can I ask the black guy why black guys slow down crossing the street in front of cars? Do they only do that for white drivers? Or is it for everyone?

Posted by: dagny at July 21, 2017 06:27 PM (wZuWv)

591 I want to do what the college giant did to every single person I see walking down the middle of the sidewalk with the nose buried in their phone.

Posted by: Notthatgreg at July 21, 2017 06:29 PM (0gSUo)

592 I use the same "we both move over" rule when it comes to eye contact. There's a point where eye contact becomes contemptuous and rude. If someone is looking at me for more than three seconds I match their gaze until they look away. If they don't, I'll address them loudly and directly: "Hey, how are you." If they still don't break the gaze, I'll walk up to them, close, inside arm's reach, and say "Do I know you?". "No" is the usual response, "Then why don't you pay attention to your fucking dinner."

The exception is children of course. They're naturally curious and don't know any better. The exception to the exception is teenagers. Just because your mommy didn't teach you any manners doesn't mean I won't.

Posted by: Clintonstain at July 21, 2017 06:38 PM (gw/SP)

593 This problem is related a host of similar annoyances and outright dangers, disasters and disembowelments known as city life.

It's curable, but may require significant lifestyle changes.

Posted by: David Gergen at July 21, 2017 06:43 PM (3myMJ)

594 My name changed to a sock I haven't used in months.

Posted by: Meremortal at July 21, 2017 06:44 PM (3myMJ)

595 If you think DC is bad for walking try driving a truck in the District.

I know every city on the east coast thinks they have the worst traffic but I think the belt way folks are suicidal.

I was delivering aviation fuel for the army the really boomy stuff that they use in attack helicopters. I must have aged 10 years in one afternoon.

Posted by: Big V at July 21, 2017 06:48 PM (qnAGA)

596 In my experience (a white woman) it's black women who will run me over. I've always been a move out of the way person and will sometimes have to do it so many times that it get's to a postal level. And Gawd forbid you hit one, they'll turn on you and be very aggressive.

Posted by: Mrs Compton at July 21, 2017 06:57 PM (wfDW1)

597 Perfect NYC street walking etiquette is demonstrated here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74

Posted by: Jambaloo at July 21, 2017 06:57 PM (DPv+O)

598 I'll admit that I'm not a great looking guy (and white), and it is my experience that white women treat me just like this guy in the NYT. It is usually pretty, financially well-off looking white women that do this, and I've thought about not getting out of their way and seeing what happens when we collide. However, I know any confrontation that takes place afterward would go against me no matter what I usually just get out of their way.

Posted by: Dexter at July 21, 2017 07:13 PM (WcC4J)

599 I'm a 6'2" 230# ex Linebacker and Defensive End.
I have had to put up with the same exact crap from these non-yielder.

It is especially annoying when it is some pretentious little bobble headed gurl who you know damn well would roll her eyes if you tried to talk to her or some primped up pretty boy poser.

On occasion I have just stopped dead in front of them and stared them down as they walked into me. Or pretended I didn't see them. But I have on occasion when they seemed particularly bad such as they already body checked someone else on their way to me, I have given them the good old side line bump and sent them well out of bounds often acting like I was just telling a friend an animated story about knocking someone on their ass.
It is best of all when you act like you never noticed them at all, pre and post bump.

Posted by: TSgt Ciz at July 21, 2017 07:17 PM (af5xa)

600 I can't believe that charging rhinoceros isn't gonna compensate. Ingrate.

Posted by: Corona at July 21, 2017 07:20 PM (PsMRi)

601 I just today saw a black man and a black woman run into each other , a mutual shoulder slam. The woman got jostled back, the guy, nothing, really, but he turned and hawked up in her direction.
Since he and his buddy were taking up most of the sidewalk and I had been awkwardly trying to move around them for awhile, my street smarts took this as a " don't accidentally diss this guy" advisory, and I immediately jaywalked to the other side of the street.

Posted by: Gem at July 21, 2017 07:22 PM (uaHyk)

602 no one mentioned that also white girl bleed a lot?

Posted by: andrew jarbacka at July 21, 2017 07:29 PM (AU4SY)

603 My 15 year old daughter does this to me all the time at home. Honestly I think it's because men are better at spatial awareness and more aware of the potential for conflict.

Posted by: Longtimelurker at July 21, 2017 07:37 PM (ld2OA)

604 One of the most positive traits in the Tucson area is that it seems everybody holds the door for everybody else. Old, young, it does not seem to matter. i quite like that, and always thank them or nod in response. it could simply be a remnant of the Old West, or it could be that a large number of the population routinely goes about armed to the teeth. maybe both. Ive seen 90 pound grey haired grandmas hold the door for a 300 pound tatted up biker. Oddly, I dont see this behavior when in Phoenix.

Posted by: jasonj at July 21, 2017 07:48 PM (/ojGX)

605 The merge cheaters Oh God's how I hate them.

Yes, the left lane is obviously closed, that's why we are all merged over to the right lane, and delayed by the upcoming bottlenet. Been sitting here for 10 mins not moving.

What's that? Oh sure! Go on ahead in the left lane and pass the 2 mile line of cars that are faithfully playing by some civilized code so this doesn't devolve into Mad Max 3. But not you. You are SO special, just drive on past till the road ends and then arrogantly attempt to not only cut in front of nice folk who have been waiting patiently for 20 minutes, but set them back even further as some idiot sympathizes and let's you cut in.

I really really hope you are going to the metro garage. So that I can practice my evil laugh as I place a flyer on your windshield, hand written:

"Sears is offering 20% off a four tire purchase today!"

Bitch.

Posted by: Fen at July 21, 2017 08:32 PM (Idvv2)

606 As for the walkers, I'm med height and build. But as a former Marine I've found that I apparently have a great "blood makes the grass grow" expression. And that if I stride with deliberate purpose, people MOVE.

Two exceptions .

1) any woman who even appears to be polite and acting in good faiths I make way for her.

2) alpha males larger than me. My demeanor is an obvious challenge that would get my ass kicked. I make eye contact and nod, then half step to the right. They almost always do the same.. The ones who "forced" a confrontation backed off after I bluffed violence - see, the Chuck Liddel's out there feel no need to prove their "manhood", it's always the pursues that try to be a badass.

Posted by: Fen at July 21, 2017 08:46 PM (Idvv2)

607 Jaywalking whiile black

Posted by: tmitsss at July 21, 2017 09:27 PM (3LAYT)

608 Please.
I lived in Manhattan for 16 years.
EVERYBODY; white, black, male. female, young, old, tourist and native wandered the sidewalks totally oblivious to the people around them.

Posted by: Hamilton at July 21, 2017 09:30 PM (sCjDS)

609 It's funny, I was just talking with my friends this afternoon about how I've started walking right through the center of groups that don't give way. I'm only 6'3" but I have yet to lose the game of chicken or else give someone a shoulder check (of their privilege).

Posted by: hoodaticus at July 21, 2017 10:41 PM (vitRc)

610 "...And I remembered my [college] friend's 20+ year old complaint."

Wait a second. Are you trying to tell me that you're older than 29?

Posted by: MOBD at July 21, 2017 10:44 PM (PzvIA)

611 I think another reason women put on blinders like this is... if a woman acknowledges a man's presence, she's noticing him and letting him know she's noticed him.

Sometimes a man will take this as an invitation to speak to her.

I think women who are so willfully oblivious to men entering the orbit of their personal space are, in large part, just trying to avoid flirtation from random dudes that they haven't personally invited to speak to them.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 21, 2017 11:16 PM (3YxFh)

612 All you people think this whole situation has gotten worse in the past few years... you're absolutely correct, if my Denver-area experience is any indication. I used to be able to stroll right through the downtown crowds, even during lunchtime, while reading a book or playing a video game on my Vita.

During the past couple of years, though, that's changed. The sidewalks are far more crowded, and people seem completely oblivious to the idea that someone who walks faster might want to get around them or at least not want to stand four inches away from them for two minutes while they occupy the only open path on the sidewalk and dither on whether they want to turn right or cross the street and consult their phones to help them decide.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 21, 2017 11:52 PM (3YxFh)

613 I blame the locusts abandoning now-uninhabitable states like California and bringing their diseased culture to states that used to be pretty nice.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 21, 2017 11:55 PM (3YxFh)

614 I noticed that women do that a ton. Especially if there are 2 (or heaven forbid 4-5) abreast. Back in college, I was running on a sidewalk, and there was a pack of them spanning the entire big sidewalk. I was all the way to the right, and usually when you meet other runners/walkers on a sidewalk, everybody goes single file for a moment. I made eye contact with the ones on my side, and they smirked at me like they weren't going to move. I don't know what they expected me to do. Stop and go back the other way?

So I just lowered my center of gravity a little bit, and sped up. At the last second the 2 on the end jumped back behind the other ones. Would have just been easier for them to act like normal civil human beings, but that's too hard for them.

Posted by: brando at July 21, 2017 11:59 PM (NLwJO)

615 I used to be that mindful person that avoided crashing into oncoming individuals...but the techno-imbeciles watching their phones have avoided my 6' 3", 270 pound 24" wide frame for the last time. Fuck those fucks.

Posted by: Apb at July 22, 2017 12:01 AM (cYEf+)

616 Banks of glass doors is a place where this happens a lot. If you're approaching a cluster of doors from the opposite direction, women will change their path, and try to go through your door, so you can have a head-on, noggin to noggin collision. It's super weird.

They choose to do this intentionally, even if there are many unused doors.

I've had good fun, veering around, and choosing a different door at the last second, only to laugh at them as they stand there confused. If they want to ram their foreheads into the wall/door/people, then they can do that on their own time.

Posted by: brando at July 22, 2017 12:13 AM (NLwJO)

617 If you see me coming, better step aside.
A lot of men didn't, and a lot of men died.

Posted by: Tennessee Ernie Shavers at July 22, 2017 12:33 AM (fSf/G)

618 I have a very similar story. I had a friend of roughly the same dimensions at uni (he could squat a bit over 350kg), by the wonderful name of Nils Grimley(not even joking, actual name). He complained to me that small Asian girls in particular would do this not moving thing. When I was walking with him he would let them crash into him just to make a point.

One day he arrived for class and he had shaved his head. He looked like a fucking maniac and was also grinning like one as he told me "they don't crash into me anymore!

Posted by: Allan at July 22, 2017 05:12 AM (jcw7/)

619 I/m an early riser and always coming to these discussions late! So I hope you see this... I'm somewhat confused because I thought in previous posts you said you were about 29 years old. But now you reference a college friend story from 20+ years ago?? So are you eternally 29 or a genius who went to college at 9 years old?

Posted by: KK at July 22, 2017 06:57 AM (yNMKV)

620 I think it is ultimately due to the fact that parents do not teach their children any manners anymore. EVERYONE should adjust their path so they do not collide with others approaching them. I still appreciate the whole male chivalry thing, but I think in this day and age, that no longer flies. EVERYONE BE POLITE. Failing that, plowing ahead into the intentionally oblivious, go for it.

Posted by: Delilah at July 22, 2017 07:28 AM (gWojd)

621 I always get a cart when I'm in a store. When they come at me I stop and see if they will walk into a steel cart.

I'm thinking a lot of people have trouble thinking ahead. This is based on commuting to work by car for 40 years.

Posted by: Mudd at July 22, 2017 12:37 PM (WAzyc)

622 I find young, black males are the worst offenders. You "diss" them if you don't yield. When it comes to the progressive couples with their lab walking home from the farmer's market, taking up the entire sidewalk, I just look straight down at the sidewalk as if I'm consumed in deep thought, unaware of the impending collision ... and usually at the last second they will move their half step to one side and then I do the same.

Posted by: Ginger at July 22, 2017 01:46 PM (eC3zE)

623 Women tend (tend!) to have horrible situational awareness, in my experience.

Posted by: Rhino at July 22, 2017 02:18 PM (9xXEU)

624 So your friend's complaint is 20 years old. And you, now a strapping lad of 29...

So you were really in college at age 9? That's awesome! You're a regular Doogie Howser, you are, except not in a gay actor sorta way.

I work in Boston, and I run into the same thing with women on the sidewalks. They own the joint. The only thing worse are tourists and tourist families, who form impenetrable, slow-moving, unpredictable phalanxes that take up the whole bloody sidewalk. And the best is when some guy with a giant backpack walking just in front of you decides to pull an about-face on a dime, thus forcing you to the pavement to avoid his fucking ruck.

Posted by: Brass Bancroft at July 22, 2017 02:59 PM (Al42J)

625 I'm a white woman, and I always give room in those circumstances. In fact, when I'm at Walmart, I'm constantly yielding to shopping carts run by people who do not at all care if anyone is in the way.

But Walmart shoppers are their own category of rude, and since whites are often the minority there, I've never noticed a racial trend.

All that said, I once watched this short-lived TV show. I think it was called Black and White. It was a reality show with two families. One white, one black. And both families were put in makeup to look like the other race, literally walking in the other's shoes.

One segment has stuck with me for over 10 years now. The white, but in blackface dad, was walking down a street with the black dad who was not in costume. The real black dad was pointing out things he experiences and would point to slights that he believed were racist.

See, these people (maybe a group of two, memory is a little hazy on exact details) were walking towards the two dads, and as they got closer, the white guys crossed the street to walk on the other side of the sidewalk. Real black dad immediately decided they were being racist.

So now, if I'm walking on a sidewalk and approaching a black guy, my first thought is if he'll think I'm racist if I give him too much room. I hate it that I think that. I hate it that in our current "post racial" America, I'm constantly reading things out of BLM or about "micro aggressions" and that when I see a black person, my first thought is, "I hope they don't think I'm racist."

All of this from a girl who grow up literally not noticing race. I don't remember this, but my mom recently told me a story about how she once asked me to describe a new friend I had. I must have been 5, 6? She said that I gave a description of everything. How tall he was, his hair and eye color, hairstyle, etc. but never mentioned that he was black. Apparently it didn't even occur to me to mention it. He was just my friend. The guy who played with my hair and was nice to me. I didn't even mess with his hair or ask him weird questions about it. I also didn't know that if I had, it would have been considered racist, even though he was constantly playing with mine.

Sorry for the rant.

Posted by: Esthier at July 22, 2017 06:42 PM (03tYS)

626 The English are supposed to be very polite and all that. But the sidewalk habits of some of them in Oxford came close to giving me sidewalk rage. (And walking is how you get about in central Oxford.)

So I tried to staying on my side of the sidewalk but walking straight and not yielding to those encroaching on my side. It worked with no major collisions. They would move.

Posted by: WannabeAnglican at July 23, 2017 08:05 AM (vFmT2)

627 Did the genius complaining about the white wimins not yield even think that maybe it's difficult for them to make a cut like Walter Payton when they're in heels?

Tell him to try wearing heels and playing 'dodge the moron'

Posted by: Uncle Rick at July 23, 2017 02:35 PM (Roa7k)

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