Passing someone who is walking by walking
 

How awkward are these situations? Whether it be on campus, at the mall, wherever, it always seems so odd to pass someone who is walking slower than you want to go.

Usually its only really awkward when both parties are by themselves and the other person is walking just slow enough where you want to pass them, but not quite fast enough where you blow by them, but instead have those few moments where you are side by side.

Anyone else ever experience this?

-SC

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Yeah...the main thing I try to avoid is passing them right before a door, so you end up holding the door for someone who was walking in front of you a second ago. That's real awkward.

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How awkward are these situations? Whether it be on campus, at the mall, wherever, it always seems so odd to pass someone who is walking slower than you want to go.

Usually its only really awkward when both parties are by themselves and the other person is walking just slow enough where you want to pass them, but not quite fast enough where you blow by them, but instead have those few moments where you are side by side.

Anyone else ever experience this?

-SC

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god yes. every morning on my way to class. its definately awkward and its always a girl cuz they walk slow and they are alwasy hot cuz well, all the girls at my school are hot, so yeah, good post.

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women walk so slow! im always passing people because i have long legs.

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Leave earlier, gives to him to not pass the hot girls, which is usually a bad thing.

When I am good about working out, there's the Burke Gillman trail that leads from my office to the UW's gym. I'm usually walking pretty fast (for a guy my size) and with all the bikes and rollerbalders that are on that path, passing is tricky. You really have to approach it like you're in a car.

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I always end up trying to go faster, and feel like some douchewad speed-walker at a [censored] track meet.

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How ackward? Ackward.

I'll give an example.

Walking to a coffee shop at night, alone, in a city with not too many lights, and a slow girl was walking ahead of me, on the sidewalk. No matter how fast I walked, she walked faster. The worst part is that if I were to slow down, you guessed it, she'd slow down too!

So, yeah, pretty ackward.

I ended up crossing the street, speeding up, then crossing back, and she continued at normal pace.

But yeah, this is really ackward for me (I walk a lot).

When you pass by groups of people, especially in both situations, generally the conversation stops for both groups and people stiffen up a bit. It sucks. I don't know what the hell's wrong with people (myself included).

--Dave.

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Leave earlier, gives to him to not pass the hot girls, which is usually a bad thing.

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i dont understand this sentence but leaving earlier is not an option.

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"gives him time"

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Yeah...the main thing I try to avoid is passing them right before a door, so you end up holding the door for someone who was walking in front of you a second ago. That's real awkward.

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Wow, that IS ackward! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]