This is less to do with my pace and more to do with behaviour and respect.

I have peripheral vision (mirrors if I am driving).
As a pedestrian I don't stop so suddenly that someone walks into the back of me or has to make a bizarre sideways jerk to avoid doing so - in the same way I wouldn't in a car.

Of course I don't expect other people to move at the same pace as me - I just prefer them to have some awareness of what is happening around them.

If decided to stop suddenly in a car (we're talking non-emergency situation) I would check my mirrors beforehand. All I want is for people to have a similar consideration when shopping.

Don't step back to look at something without seeing if anyone is approaching.
Don't stand with your two friends for a chat in the middle of an aisle.
Don't stop suddenly in a crowded shop where there will obviously be people right behind you.
I was taught this as a child as a matter of respect. Although my parents are 60+ now (and Dad with a cane and a replacement knee) it still applies to them as well as me.

And re tailgating - I could say the same about the people who press their shopping trolleys against my legs in queues (all have been OAPs, hence my original rant). I can't step forward any more without encroaching on the personal space of the person in front - so don't think pressing up against me is going to help - it's just damn rude.

My issue is with people who don't show me the same consideration I show them. If is was simply about people who didn't move quickly enough I'd be shoving them out of my path. I don't care if someone is a spotty teen, an OAP or in a motorised wheelchair - if they contravene my "rules of the road" it annoys the shit out of me. I do nothing about it apart from the occasional fart (have searced - perhaps I didn't post that here) and this thread.

Which is what I was saying, also.

What happens is that the people who don't give a fuck that other people inhabit the earth can grow into old people who don't give a fuck that other people inhabit the earth (and I could carry this further but if my previous statements were misconstrued I can only imagine what would transpire if I elaborated.)

Can we put away our tissues now? :cool:

No! there's that GD split-V stream that happens after getting frisky.:blush:

People on buses with prams. I know you have to get your kid somewhere, but a pram barely fits up the aisle to begin with, never mind when there are already more people on the bus than there should be.

That's such a pain in the ass. I usually sit down for the first pee after getting frisky, to avoid the mess. :angel:

Have you tried giving it the Presta valve treatment?

If I were to get frisky with anyone but Rosy Palm, there might be considerable objection, from the attacked, that the attackee is unsuitably equipped.
After all :o

Fuck, social "games." I like movies like Swingers as much as the next guy, but I never took them as a guidebook.

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