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Tip from person with short legs: if someone is walking faster behind you, move to the side and slow down to let them pass at their speed. You’re welcome fast walkers.
This only works if the other person has situational awareness.
That rules out…nearly everyone
I just stop and let them pass me, to be sure.
Yeah… Situational awareness kind of a requirement for short people.
You’d think hitting our heads would give tall people situational awareness but nope
If we’re walking together, can I give you a piggyback or something? It’s death walking somewhere for a purpose and taking like 50% longer to get there because your friend/partner/whoever doesn’t walk 6 km/h.
6 km/h should be default. 1 km/10 mins just makes estimating arrival times perfect (1.5 km is 15 mins). And it’s not that fast even.
Edit: I’ve taken your inch and asked for a mile
ROFL! Just go ahead, save me a seat. My spouse and I can’t go hiking with certain friends because not only are we slow, but we stop to admire little things like moss, mushrooms and bugs.
Oh that sounds lovely.
I will say, if you’re walking for the purpose of walking (and not getting somewhere), I’m happy to stop to smell the roses
I was in this situation once, I went for the pass, it was taking too long to pass and I noticed they were also speeding up, so I pick up the pace and start the jog and they did the same we started to get into a full sprint. It went on for a while until we got to the corner, he went left and I waited for the light. Never saw him again. To this day I’m not quite sure what happened.
Not as bad as when a small woman crosses the road to end up walking right in front of me and then proceeds to be visibly uncomfortable at the fact that a large man is walking right behind her.
Even better, when I cross the road too as courtesy so that I’m not behind her, and she simultaneously crosses back across the road because she was uncomfortable, then notices I’m behind her again and thinks I’m following her.
I moved from a huge city to a smaller city, and sometimes I miss the huge city because nobody really gave a fuck who was near them on the sidewalk because there were always other people on the sidewalk. People perceive others so much harder here and while the social discomfort it causes me isn’t nearly as bad as the fear of assault that small woman might have, it still gets exhausting.
You just need to reassure them that your intentions are pure. Whisper “I ain’t gonna kill you.” When you get nice and close
Yesterday I was stuck behind a very fast walking woman… who was walking her dog. She’d slow down to nothing when the dog needed to sniff something, then speed way up when the dog was done. Her v(max) was higher than mine, but her v(min) was zero, leading to a v(mean) that was slightly slower than mine. So, I’d keep on catching up to her and having to wait until her dog was done sniffing at something. But her dog didn’t take enough time to justify my walking around her.
You should have v(amoose)'d her out of the way
Worse, the slow walker that takes up the whole sidewalk (weaving back and forth) while wearing earbuds and then act upset they didn’t hear “Excuse me” 3x when you push past them
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Fuck that. I find a reason to stop dead for about thirty seconds and then proceed again at my desired pace once the gap has increased. Repeat as needed.
Video game escort quests.
I know exactly what he’s talking about.
Try having short legs. I think I’m walking fast and a short woman waddles by me at twice my speed…
Get into this situation, I pass the dude.
Second later I get to the door but because of how it is placed and how close he is, it would be rude to swing it open and run in. So I open the door for him and let him go first.
He says thanks, I don’t respond and proceed to look annoyed against all my best intentions.
:(
Just yell “Holy shit, what the hell is this?” and quickly pass while they turn around. Works at least 85% of the time.
Just speed up until you are level.woth them, match your speed, and hold their hand. Worst case scenario, you don’t have to worry about them anymore. Best case, new best friend!
How about: pass him slowly and maintain eye contact the whole time.
I had no idea that people put this amount of thought into walking.
