Avoiding an intercept course

[Rowan Sjet]

I don't particularly care. Sure, it feels a little weird, but I was walking here first!

When I read the thread title though, I thought this would be about avoiding collisions with fellow oncoming pedestrians. You know? You're walking along a path, and suddenly there's someone walking the other way along the same path as you. You can see you're going to collide, so you move off to the side, but they just happen to move the same way as you and you're still going to collide so you keep trying to move out of the way while the other person moves the same way, and you're just getting steadily closer. Eventually, one of you just has to put up their hands, says you go that way, I'll go this way, and chuckling, you pass and go on your merry way.

I can't count how many times this has happened to me!

 

[All Seeing Eye]

There's many times where i'm walking along the pavement up a slight hill and the person in front is walking just slightly slower than me but not by much so I end up coming up behind them but because their speed is only slightly slower than mine if I try to overtake them it'll take a while to do it which means for a good 20 seconds i'll be walking side by side with them and i've had to put major effort into speeding past them because i'm already at full speed so I end up just slowing down keeping pace with them.

if not you receive a startled look when just entering their peripheral vision and give your best 'I'm not a mugger sir/madam' impression

I've had quite a few of those looks in my time when overtaking, especially when it's a side road and there's only me and the other person on the street.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

I don't particularly care. Sure, it feels a little weird, but I was walking here first!

When I read the thread title though, I thought this would be about avoiding collisions with fellow oncoming pedestrians. You know? You're walking along a path, and suddenly there's someone walking the other way along the same path as you. You can see you're going to collide, so you move off to the side, but they just happen to move the same way as you and you're still going to collide so you keep trying to move out of the way while the other person moves the same way, and you're just getting steadily closer. Eventually, one of you just has to put up their hands, says you go that way, I'll go this way, and chuckling, you pass and go on your merry way.

I can't count how many times this has happened to me!

I worse thing is when you get really close whilst still shadowing moves and the other person says 'shall we dance?' This does only happens to me with leery old men - *shudders*
You don't think they do it on purpose

And TS maybe it's the hoodie and sunglasses that do it lol