Do you rush everywhere?

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For the record, I'm "neurotypical"

Do you find yourself walking at a pace beyond most others? Do you get utterly pissed off when there is no other path past a clot of slow moving of pedestrian traffic that invariably forms in any popular/small space?

Ever since I was young, I've been pissed off by slow moving people. I'm all for appreciating the now, but there's now and - there's 3 minutes ago.

Does anyone else have an unreasonably fast walking speed? When I walk, I half run from A to B. Anything superfluous to that pisses me off.

when i was young i was full of piss and vinegar and yes, i was very impatient with slowpokes. now that i'm an old man and increasingly a slowpoke myself, i am a bit more forgiving of other slowpokes, but only to a point. my aging body will no longer let me just walk around rolling pedestrian obstructionists so i just fume, but while driving i am still apt to pass somebody on the road if they act like little kids that refuse to move. people who refuse to acknowledge that there are other people [unlike themselves] who need to get from point A to B in a timely manner, are just overgrown passive/aggressive little brats, IMHO.

as a young man, my impatience came to a head when i was in the military, where rush rush rush is the rule. i learned to eat fast, walk fast and do everything fast therein. i still walk as fast as my ailing joints will allow and am apt to walk past many other pedestrians.

Yep, that is sooo like me.
Why do people choose to walk like snails? They block corridors at airports and cause hold-ups because they are too deep in conversation that they are oblivious to what is going on around them. I find it strange how some of the slow walkers swing their arms hysterically wide.

Mind you I get the same frustrations when behind the wheel, especially on a multi-lane highway; I am like "get out of my way"!

I generally drive relatively slow. The old people pass me.

On the other hand, I generally walk at a medium to fast speed.

I read somewhere that one thing that may indicate the likely onset of Alzheimer's about five or ten years in the future is walking much slower than normal. I have no idea how true that is, but I've noticed that my oldest brother walks agonizingly slow these days.

Don't forget the people that stays where people needs to reach public transportation or corridors in warehouses. One way to deal with it is to just "oops.. sorry"
Small kids and physically impaired adults are the only really valid exceptions.

Yes.
I'm not rushing, though; I just want to get from one place to another and I don't normally find the scenery between places interesting enough to linger over, so I go at my normal fast walking pace.

Even though I am rather relaxed and patient when it comes to slower moving people, I walk at a very brisk pace and tend to plan my routes to be as fast and efficient as possible, and the reason is simple: There's other people around, and it stresses me out to have so many people around me. I can relax and jolly strole through parks, forests or on a beach at the seaside when there's no other folks around. I also don't like moving through crowds, either, and not only because I hate crowds of people, I just don't know how and when to move to not bump into anybody (I am both tall and bulky, so I am prone to doing that I guess)... interestingly, this only happens to me at slow paces. If I actively search my way and plan my routes and conciously adjust my posture and movement, I can actually move through crowds of people faster than most anyone I know.

Well i am very impatient....
i cannot talk and walk simultaneously on a road
I just need to walk away fast....
and i hate crowded roads which is too common in india
i dont like walking with my mother in law she is snail phased

guess i am just hyperactive.

I'm also very impatient and fast walking, unless I'm in "pissed off energy saving"-mode, then I walk slow as hell and do literally everything using an extremely low amount of effort, that includes thinking. I'm basically a right a**hole then, but it's the only way to avoid myself getting into a total meltdown.

I do this all the time as i feel people tend to hog all over the pavements and not give way to other people.

With enough speed people realize it's better to move out of the way FAST
If you walk normally they don't pay attention.

I've always been this way. People walking with me always yell at me to slow down because I get way ahead of them and they can't keep up.

it seems like this is an area that i am growing in. my partners at work complained about my fast walking pace enough to the point where i have tried to adjust it when i am walking with them. i still need to be reminded at times it seems :/

I am not normally rushing, but I walk everywhere as I currently have no other means of transportation, and I naturally walk much quicker than almost everybody else. Sometimes I get bored of walking and start running instead. I do tend to get annoyed and sometimes uncomfortable if I'm walking somewhere crowded and there are people in my way.

i wont call it rushing, from my perspective; everyone else is taking their sweet time, to the point of taking their sweet time.
if i walk/cycle/drive somethere, i'm in transit from point A to point B, no use in taking more time then needed, so i indeed pick up the pace.
i'm not rushing or running though, that is something i'd only do if i am visibly late, meaning, late for a bus or train, i wont rush for a minute or two late for a meeting