Are you always in the way of someone?
it helps if you laugh about it, I once had a person mirror my moves 6 times before we switched directions.
I'd usually come up with a line like fancy a dance, or do you come here often after.
It took me a couple of years to work out that I should just walk in a straight line and at At 6'2" and 252lb I become more of their immediate problem and let them try and push me out of the way, its great fun watching 5' rude men elbowing there way through the crowd before bouncing off me and ending up on there bum. I will make sure that I avoid women and some children but if I can't I will just stand there and let them avoid me till i can move.
As to the computer woman I'd have passed her a note with recommended site: and www.hownottobeacompletebitch.com then walked off.
Definitely got to agree with you, it does seem to be one of the phenomena associated with London and the SE especially.
I don't have much trouble with walking into people and not knowing what way to go past them. I see them coming and move over to the side and they automatically see me on one side and they just stay on the other side. But it's funny - whenever I'm with NTs they often see people coming towards them, walk on one side of the path and the people coming towards them walk the other side, then as soon as the person I'm with reaches them, they suddenly step over to their side and walk straight into them, and I'm always like, ''that was a silly thing to do, why couldn't we of just stayed on this side instead of swapping sides at the last minute and making them have to stop suddenly and move out of your way?'' I never do that - I just stay on one side until they pass.
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Apparently it's normal to
- Walk slowly with your friends, 5 abreast.
- Stop to have a conversation RIGHT IN A FRICKING DOORWAY.
- Occasionally walk diagonally on a footpath that is going straight ahead, making it impossible for people to get past you.
- In the supermarket, place your trolley across the aisle and have a chat with your friend.
- Stop. For no reason. Right at the top/bottom of an escalator. Just as someone is trying to disembark.
This. Although I am (usually) polite & avoid contact wherever possible at all, as I hate being jostled.
Selfish people on street or trains press my 'stubborn git' button though. However they may be just having a bad day. People, crowds & all that ensues = stress on stilts.