Pedestrians who have absolutely no concept of how much space they occupy, #1
Little girls with pigtails and Barbie umbrellas.
posted by
Lady Bracknell | Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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#2
Businessmen with briefcases running for the train you are trying to get off.
People pulling small wheeled suitcases when they are quite fit enough to carry them. (http://web.me.com/blackpittsgarden/Site_2/Blog/Entries/2007/4/21_Capercaillie_sunset.html)
#4 Stout, elderly ladies who have developed a side-to-side yaw when walking, and who are pulling tartan shopping trolleys behind them.
#5 Three mothers with children in pushchairs, who think that the space directly between the pavement tables and the parking meter is the best possible place to stop for a chat.
Re: #5
Bloody hell, yes!
Yesterday a mother got off a bus with a small child in a buggy.
I waited.
She parked the buggy directly in front of me, leaving me no room to get round on either side.
I waited.
She got back on the bus and removed a giant heavy red suitcase which she struggled to lift.
I waited.
She put the suitcase next to the buggy on the pavement and stopped to talk to her slightly older, non-buggied, child.
I waited.
Several minutes passed.
"Oh sorry!" she said, and moved both buggy and suitcase.
Er...
#6 The family walking along the footbridge that goes over the river. Mum and dad in the middle, probably-aunties to either side, and a double-buggy in front. Entire footbridge spanned from rail to rail - not even an option of getting past them in the road.
Moving at approx 0.5mph. Okay, maybe one of them has trouble walking, I can be patient. And then... then they stop for a chinwag, buggy in the centre of the bridge, adults leaning on the rails to either side.
I picked them up and threw them in the river, dammit.
(Where 'picking them up' means saying "excuse me" a few times, and 'threw them in the river' means poddling off in reverse on my scooter to find something else to do for ten minutes.)
Ah, now, you see...
I reckon that delightful family is more likely to fall into the "pedestrians who are very well aware of how much spce they occupy but don't care" category.
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