if we're on to pedestrians...
what irritates me more than people stopping suddenly is that when walking down a crowded street I'm always the one that is getting out of peoples way. if someone is coming towards me I'll step to the side or twist my body so we can get past each other.

Occasionally I'll get fed up with this and walk srtaight to my destination. This lasts for a minute or so after my 6'2", 15st frame has knocked several blank-faced, vacant-eyed idiots to the ground....

this doesn't just apply to this sort of situation, but driving and all sorts, and is (I think) obviously the cause of a lot of people's complaints on here. Most people are just so stupid that they have no awareness of what is going on around them. They act like badly programmed robots, they can carry out their task perfectly well, but if you put something in their way they can't cope with it, and would just keep banging into it.

per example: walking from the beach with my bro, I'm holding the front of both of our 9'6" surfboards, he is holding the rear. we pass through a narrow gap, wall one side, land rover the other, and a bunch of idiot tourists just stop in front of me, leaving no room for me to get past. I can't move to the side as I'm holding the front of these two rather unwieldy beasts. At this point I look up into their faces to see if they might show a glimmer of intelligence and step back or to the side, but no, there's nothing there. Just gazing off into the middle distance, with a vapid look on their faces. I then hope that they are of the particular breed of tourist from the West Midlands who comes to our beaches and gets swept out to sea....
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 17 Oct 2006, 10:13, Reply)