Do you walk fast?

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I used to, and I guess I still do to an extent. I used to speed walk or even jog with a 50 pound backpack when I was in high school (graduated 2001). For me, it's not so much speed, as gait length. Shuffling or standing in one location is torture to my feet. I have high arches, and I tend to respond to discomfort in ways that seem to aggravate it. My solution is usually to just wear boots. They don't solve it, but they help.

Unless I'm depressed I'll overtake everyone I see.

I'm not looking for respect, I just want to get where I'm going. If a group of people are taking up the whole sidewalk, what are you supposed to do, jump onto the street or squeeze yourself aside to make room for them? I know a lot of people do the latter, but I think they deserve to get pushed if they don't have more respect for others. When I say push or 'walk into them', I mean I like 'check' them on the side, not walk right into them.

I do walk fast, though I am 6'4" so I think it comes a bit naturally.

I also have a tendency to compete with other fast walkers. If someone is about to pass me, I find myself picking up the pace so that they don't. Sort of my competitive nature, I guess.

I'd rather avoid any unnecessary contact. I guess it has to do with the way people always hit me back when I hit them in elementary school, when I was bullied all the time. I'm kind of scared of making any body contact with strangers on purpose.

I can walk fast if I want to, but I am one of the slowest people in my school year.

Yes i walk very very fast

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yes, i walk very fast and i'm only 5'2". and i think it's more to do with growing up in chicago than anything else becasue my ma's the same way. but in my observations, it seems more and more lately that people are becoming extremely slow and oblivious when walking, especially in high-risk areas like parking lots, walking around blind corners, or my favorite, walking forward while looking backward. who does that?? how can you NOT be aware of your surroundings and want to maneuver your way? i'm constantly watching out for the other guy, defensive walking. another thing i hate is being stuck behind a group of people in a hall who are all dawdling abreast of each other. i seriously think they do it on purpose, as a passive-aggressive power trip. i'm only about 40 miles out of chicago and everyone is like that here. it makes me want to scream.

Oh, I cannot stand that! I find that it can just be one person. They walk in such a way as to take up as much horizontal room as possible, more than you would really expect. I usually just turn sideways and pass these folks as quickly as I can.

or they kind of meander, and as SOON as you pick a side to overtake them on, they veer to that side. like, 9/10 times.

One thing I find interesting is that I'm often the 'blocker' if I am with people and moving through a crowd. Between height and build, I stand out visually, and because the crowd is uncomfortable to boot then I'm navigating quickly and finding lanes to avoid when possible... and admittedly, I've not been above making a route when necessary.


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When I'm occupied (e.g talking, reading something) I walk very slowly. When I'm not occupied and just thinking to myself, I walk like the wind. I walk with a firm pace and side-step around any obstacles.

In school, if I have to go for example from the third floor to the first floor inbetween classes, and the always are empty, I jog.

i used to have a "comedy routine" i thought of to entertain myself. this was in my early 20's and i was not very mature then.
when i went to work in the mornings, there would be crowds of people to negotiate around at north sydney station where i got off the train.
there were 2 "lanes" of walking traffic. there were "oncoming people", and "people going in my direction".
it is difficult to overtake people walking in the same direction as me, because they do not know i am behind them. but if i veer out and walk against the flow of the oncoming people, they see me coming and get out of my way.

if i pretend to be absorbed in a newspaper while i am walking, they will nearly always get out of my way no matter how fast i walk.

i found a device once which seemed like a blind persons walking cane. it was made of aluminium, and had a little plastic ball at the end of the slender aluminium rod. (it was laying against a wall at the doctors).

anyway, i experimented with wearing very dark sunglasses, and i used this "proboscis" stick like a blind person in order to see how easily people got out of my way when they think i am "blind".
they got out of my way very well.
then one day, i had a girl with me, and i imagined a scenario and told her about it, and she begged me to do it.

the scenario was that i was running at high speed with dark sunglasses on, and whacking my stick frantically in front of me as i ran.

i would run at my true (sighted) top speed, but pretend i was blind, and whack the walls of the tunnel into the train station with my stick, pretending that i was being guided by only that feedback. then i would flail my stick wildly to find the staircase and and handrail (in rapid time), and i would descend the stairs athletically, as if i was using only the flailing cane as my guide. people thought some crazy thoughts that i could not determine from their expressions.
melinda was very much propelled to fits of laughter. we were almost arrested and we were told never to do that again.

i did not do it many times after that.