No! That's very sad.

(Reading the restaurant list from Kathy's link - want to go to Sunshine Cafe. . . NOW.)

This wouldn't bug me so much if any of these groups ever had the awareness of their surroundings to detect when someone walking faster is behind them, and made room to be passed.

I hate it when a gaggle of office workers go to lunch together. I always feel as if I'm being run off the sidewalk by the Douchebag Express.

Instead, it usually seems like they think there's no one else one the sidewalk except themselves. Or, if they are aware of other people, they not only don't make room, they go out of their way to make it impossible to pass. Like "How dare you try and pass our slow-moving group taking up the entire sidewalk!!!"

This happens all the time in Boston. You even get individual pedestrians who seem to sense you getting ready to pass and they swerve into your "lane"; then swerve back when you try to juke the other way. It's gotten to the point where I assume it's just the MA driver mentality carried over to pedestrians.

And I'm afraid, having grown up in Maine (aka Vacationland which = Touristland), and now living in Salem, my love hate relationship with tourists has moved firmly to the "hate" side of the spectrum, at least for the clueless (as opposed to uninformed) types.

Remember folks, it's tourist season again - shoot to kill, not to wound. There's nothing more dangerous than a wounded tourist.

Like "How dare you try and pass our slow-moving group taking up the entire sidewalk!!!"

I get this because I actually have the nerve to walk up the escalator instead of standing there like a sheep.

I am less bothered by the climbing gas prices themselves than by the fact that they've made the last convenience store in my area that let you pay after pumping stop that practice.

You must be glad to no have the commute you used to have. Or were you reimbursed for gas? Which makes me wonder how long companies keep subsidizing (or at least fully subsidizing) for gas.

I get this because I actually have the nerve to walk up the escalator instead of standing there like a sheep.

Oh how I wish it were universally known that one should stand on the right and allow walkers to pass on the left.

Oh how I wish it were universally known that one should stand on the right and allow walkers to pass on the left.

It's not even that people are in the way though, some of them just look at you passing like you're bothering them by, you know, moving past them.

Oh how I wish it were universally known that one should stand on the right and allow walkers to pass on the left.

In most airports this is both posted and announced on a PA.... doesn't help.

Dear McSnorty,

As you seem to have persistent issues with your sinuses, I'm just going to walk around the cubicle and stab you in the face a few times. I'm sure it'll help with drainage!

Sincerely,
shrift

It's not even that people are in the way though, some of them just look at you passing like you're bothering them by, you know, moving past them.

Mos def. I get that look a lot.

I have come to adore the weird looks I get when I take the stairs instead of the escalator. You'd think I was walking up the stairs with a hat made of half donkey, half terracotta.