Why Do So Many People Walk So Slow?

[dave50]

Just sauntering along whatever they are doing and when you get stuck behind them it's so frustrating. My wife and I always walk at a brisk pace, wherever we are going. I'm talking about able bodied people here, not those with a mobility problem.  Perhaps there would be less fat people if the moved about quicker.

 

[barry1010]

I am a naturally fast walker and I'm sure some slower walkers get irritated by me 'scuse me'-ing to get by.

My brother was a painfully slow walker from him early 50s due to angina. He looked fit and well,very straight backed, but he struggled.

 

 

[Khandro]

Knees darling, knees.

[pastafreak]

Definitely knees...and sometimes the back too. I still get impatient and hate getting stuck behind dawdling people. Must be my NYC roots 🤣

[Arksided]

It's a conspiracy Dave... here come the brisk folk.

[davebro3]

I used to be a quick walker - much more limited these days in speed & distance. Age related problems.

[ladybirder]

How do you know if they are able bodied or not? Not all people show it, depending on their disability.

 

[Arksided]

Here's an interesting notion if you don't mind me saying so...

How about Briskly walking around them and not bumping into folk as though it's their fault.

[Ken4155]

It's obvious, Dave, they're doing it to wind you up. Perhaps ypu should get a petition going for your council to designate 'slow' and 'brisk walking' lanes on the pavements in your area.

[bookbinder]

A. they're in no hurry to get anywhere.

B. they're strangers, and don't know the area.

C. they have leg/knee or other problems, and speed walking just doesn't come into it.

D. they're looking for a particular address.

E. they're simply out for a bit of exercise/fresh air/ change of scene.

[barry1010]

A great irritant to me is people in the supermarket who walk round leaning right over their trollies, steering with their elbows, backside in the air often with builder's crack or grungy under crackers on show.

Stand up straight!

 

[bookbinder]

Ah, now, barry1010, you're on to one of my favourite subjects! Human behaviour in supermarkets is surely worth a study by a professional psychologist! 

1. Why do some people walk out of the supermarket with their purchases held tightly to their chest, instead of putting them in a bag?

2. Why do some people leave their trollies and wander around?

3. Why do some people push their trollies in one direction, but look around them in another direction?

4. And finally, should we be worried by the thought that the dreamy customers in supermarkets leave the store, and then get into their cars and drive along public roads?

[Arksided]

Food for thought... and I'm very asute of ones surroundings even wearing ones mp3 player (Ihave a bit of a dodgy knee at the moment) that aside I'll be keeping an eye out for 'Brisk Walkers'

[calda49]

There ought to be a driving test before you are let in with a trolley, especially for husbands who have been dragged under durress to "help with the shopping"

[Omg21]

I find people walking around looking at their phone rather than where they are going really annoying, especially when it is difficult to avoid them.

[barry1010]

I just stop and let them walk in to me

[douglas9401]

Do you and the wife wear matching tracksuits when barging about the place?

And bum bags?

[netherfield]

Not so much slow as ignorant, being a University town we get students walking 6 or even 8 abreast, and expecting everyone coming towards them to move out their way. And young mothers, most of whom should be in school, using their pushchairs/ buggies as battering rams.

[Cloverjo]

Re: netherfield. I don't live a university town, but I recall three teenage girls walking towards me and taking up the whole width of the pavement. I could see they weren't going to be polite and give me any space, and I wasn't going to step onto the road. So I stood still and assumed they would walk around me, but no. One barged into me and then said to her friends 'She just walked right into me!' 
People! 

[sandyRoe]

Some of us aren't as fit as we once were.

[Cloverjo]

Husband used to moan about people walking too slowly and stopping suddenly in doorways. Nowadays, he's the one who gets in people's way.