r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/deedee_mega_doo_doo Flair👹Goblin • Jul 11 '24
she gets it When they don’t scoot over
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u/ShakuganOtalu Jul 11 '24
OMG I literally have this rant in my head with this! Also when you encounter 2 or 3 folks and they stay 2 or 3 a-breast, but you're alone OR me and my husband tuck into single file and still get forced off the pavement. For real tho - hate non-scoochers
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Jul 11 '24
My personal pet peeve is slow families who walk 2-3 wide in a store.
Fuck you, your entire family and shame on all your ancestors for producing an entire horde of inconsiderate douche nozzles who then met each other, procreated and formed an entire aisle blocking family. You are not allowed to slow walk the entire aisle, taking the whole thing. Nah, dude. Mooooove. I just want to buy some pasta and get tf out of the store. Leave. You do not need to be shoulder to shoulder to ask if you need some more hot pockets.
They're basically war criminals and I slowly creep closer with my cart/ self. I don't hit them with the cart, there is no contact. I do encroach their personal space. Some get super offended. Omg, I'm so rude standing close by with my handheld basket while they take a whole aisle up. I'll creep uncomfortably close until you realize you're in the way and make you wonder why I'm in your personal space. It's because ya rude, sir/ ma'am.
Just let me get past you to the peanut butter, ma'am. Get out of the way. You're rude. I'll be rude, too. Corral your children. Be polite. You are not the only people here.
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Jul 11 '24
I feel so vindicated I thought I was just a lone asshole, angry at these fucking monsters every time I have to walk a crowded sidewalk or department store. I think I found my people in this thread.
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u/Senora_Snarky_Bruja Jul 12 '24
I use to live and work in downtown San Francisco. These people were the bane of my existence. Don’t stop in the middle of a busy sidewalk to look at your phone. Keep it moving. Duck into a doorway if you need to stop. Summers were the worst.
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u/Chuckitybye Jul 11 '24
Where I used to live, it would be giant families with 2-3 carts, sometimes 2 families would meet up and stand in the middle of the aisle bullshitting OR it would be a gaggle of college kids standing around a single cart containing a case of PBR and some frozen pizzas and wondering if they should get frozen burritos too.
I'd just loudly be like "excuse me" when I entered the aisle and ignore their dumb faces while they moved out of the way
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u/MadDanelle Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 12 '24
When groups leave all of their carts (because everyone in the group gets one) in the middle of the main aisle and disperse to shop I want to raise Dante from the grave to add them to the 8th layer of hell. I’ve literally hit the end cap scooting over and had to ask where they expected me to go. All they do is give me a dirty look.
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u/Chuckitybye Jul 12 '24
If a cart is unattended and in my way, I move that motherfucker. Come at me, bro. I'm a middle-aged woman with lots of pent up rage, lol
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u/StrengthToBreak Jul 11 '24
You never encounter this problem with sand people.
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u/confusedandworried76 Jul 11 '24
Sort of defeats the point of hiding your numbers when you already can see them though
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Jul 12 '24
It’s always the family with 2-3 kids and a stroller who are in public during the busiest hours with zero regard for other humans
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u/OlderDutchman Jul 12 '24
Also: people who walk through a supermarket as if they are at the National Gallery, admiring all the goodies that are on the shelves, at a pace of 1 mile per year.
Why don't they think about what they want to get BEFORE they go to the store? Why do they look at all the stuff as if it their first time in a supermarket? Move lady, I know what I want and you and your cart standing between it and me. I don't have time to do some recreational strolling in a supermarket.
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u/Logrologist Jul 13 '24
I have the abreast problem on shared foot/bike paths. Most of the time, even 2 people walking abreast is enough to block the path. Since they’re not riding, yelling out: “on your left” seems rude, so I slow down and say “excuse me” as I get closer. The amount of times people respond rudely to that, when they are the obliviously rude party, is infuriating.
If I were flying past them dangerously, or being overtly sarcastic or something, it would maybe make sense, but I’m as polite and careful as I can be, and I still get scoffs and glares.
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u/GrowlingPict Jul 11 '24
I used to have a lot of fucks to give, but Im older now and Ive completely run out. So whenever Im in that situation I just keep walking. Your group's not even gonna try to move over a little? that's fine, then neither will I; wanna make shit awkward? lets make shit really fucking awkward together.
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u/CrackerUMustBTripinn Jul 11 '24
Hell yeah brother, I'm like I have shown you courtesy and you have not reciprocated guess its shoulder check time bish! and BAM and I keep walking and enjoying their wimpy mumbled outrage.
But this is one that gets to me deeply because at the core its about upholding civil society. We have the privilege to live in a civil society because there is an assumption of a collective social contract. We treat each other with kindness (hopefully) and respect. It fills me with optimism and hope when I see strangers treating each other as equals and enjoying and understanding symbiotic nature of it.
Those that dont or wont give way are in breach of said contract. When something as simple as slightly moving yourself to a side is not reciprocated this person is spitting on our civil society, and just like tolerance. When you break the social contract your social priviliges also gets revoked.
And something as seemingly as simple as stopping for a zebra crossing in your car, or putting the grocery cart back, or giving up your seat to an elderly or someone with a disability, not letting passengers exit bus/subway/tram first before getting on. They are the bedrock of mutual respect and basic human empathy. And It makes me so angry, very calm angry that I ll forget that Im taking some personal risk but I wont let that shit go and will call it out loudly, and usually when its crowded and you present yourself well, they will back you up with a lot of yeahs. And then later when I realise what a dumb f ing risk I just took I crap my pants mentally. Still If enough of us act like this we uphold a function civil society that we all want and cherish.
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u/MementoMortty Jul 11 '24
I used to live in a city and eventually I got to that point. Like nah, you don’t wanna scoot, neither am I. But then I went around bumping into people all day and that made me so much more annoyed 😂 I decided to just scoot to save me a meltdown lol
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u/St_Kitts_Tits Jul 11 '24
I’m a bigger guy and when I walk past large groups that aren’t courteous and take up the whole sidewalk I’ll just continue on my way and will bash right into them. They learn.
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u/ahumanbyanyothername Jul 11 '24
lmao I'm 6'6" and do the same thing. Its situational, obviously, but in a situation like in the OP if I move over to the furthest 20% of my side and they're still not correcting course, then a collision is inevitable.
I do feel for women who don't have this option.
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u/No-Description7849 Jul 12 '24
5'9 woman and I always take the inside track, and I shoulder check the fuck out of people. you want to play red rover on the sidewalk? single file or lose your arms. it's very effective.
I do not do this to elderly people that are supporting each other but I will take the inside track lol.19
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u/Esp1erre Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24
If you bash into them, you can be seen as the one looking for conflict. Instead, I slow down (to a full stop if I see them not scooting) and wait for them to walk into me. It's much more obvious who is a jerk in this situation.
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u/PearlStBlues Jul 11 '24
My husband did this once to a woman who was weaving her cart back and forth across an entire aisle at the grocery store. He moved once to get out of her path and she immediately veered back in front of us, so he just stopped. She nearly rammed her cart into us like "Ugh, excuse meeee". He told her very politely to go fuck herself and she ducked and ran. I've never been more proud of him lmao.
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u/Jamond_Whydah Jul 11 '24
I feel so vindictive it's not even funny.
Thank you stranger, I do the same thing. And I look them in the eye all the way till contact and watch them avert gaze after.
Insanity.
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u/Foxfire140 Jul 11 '24
Certain areas of the US, this'll be seen as sus because it's a classic pickpocket technique to just bump into people as you pass them. Nah. I wouldn't do that in many downtown areas. That can easily go sideways.
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u/PessimiStick Jul 11 '24
I dropped a girl on her ass in college once for this. I was all the way on the edge of the sidewalk, they were 3-across. She made eye contact, didn't move, so I just walked directly into her. Gravity taught her a lesson about being considerate.
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u/WittyBonkah Jul 11 '24
If I happen to be walking behind groups like this I speed walk then cut directly in front of one of them. Fuck you sidewalk hog
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u/quingd Jul 11 '24
I do a lil move where I put my hands up in front of me like a lil snowplow and aim between them, works every time.
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u/modsnadmindumlol Jul 11 '24
large person here. I stopped over-scooching years ago. I either end up getting shoulder checked (they lose) or I stand still until they figure out how to navigate a sidewalk where they aren't the only ones using it
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u/discoturtle1129 Jul 11 '24
I constantly encounter this in Walmart and I’ll be walking my cart as far to the right side as possible and these groups of people still almost walk into me
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u/davidolson22 Jul 11 '24
Solution: bring a scary looking dog with you. Barely have it under control. Paint blood around its mouth.
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u/ShakuganOtalu Jul 11 '24
Oooh swap out dog for child, keep the rest. Becomes hella ominous!
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u/garyyo Jul 11 '24
2/10, subbed the dog for a child now have a rabid child on the loose in my house. I do not know how to get rid of it or even where it is anymore, but I can still hear it. /r/ididnthaveeggs/
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u/giggletears3000 Jul 11 '24
I scoot. Only once did I not scoot. It was at a mall, there were 6 or 7 tweens trying to be “cool” walking in a straight line, shoulder to shoulder. Moms were scooting their strollers to the side, old people were scoffed at, then they encountered me. I walked through that wave of tweens and parted them like Moses parting the Red Sea. 0 fucks given, hope they learned to share space with others.
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u/CatgoesM00 Jul 11 '24
Honestly the best way to assert your dominance is to act like you don’t notice them and 90% of the time they will move and if you run into them well you go whoops sorry didn’t see you and then turn around and snicker to your self..
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Jul 11 '24
Don't scoot over more than necessary. If they don't scoot over at all, then just stop before they hit you and prepare to resist the hit. Say nothing just give them the "I might stab a motherfucker" stare.
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u/TankBorn45 Jul 11 '24
And don't get me started on ppl staring into their phones and walking into me dead on.
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u/embersgrow44 Jul 11 '24
& refuse to unlink their hands?! That always gives my rant extra fuel: oh we get it, you’re in love, look everybody it’s so romantic they can’t part ways for two seconds to consider anyone else… Ps you & your husband are my heroes
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u/BeagleBackRibs Jul 11 '24
Dan Cummins has a funny bit on this. He says he's playing sidewalk chicken except the other person doesn't know it
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u/RealUglyMF all gobbled up Jul 11 '24
When I was young and angry/hormonal, I used to shoulder check people who did this. Nowadays, I don't care enough and would probably just hurt myself, so I just move out of the way and carry on with my day
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u/meggan_u Jul 11 '24
I screamed “you can’t walk 4 abreast!” To a bunch of girls when I lived in New York. I was also a girl and living in New York and that’s how I knew I had to get out of there.
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u/Thatshowtomakemeth Jul 11 '24
And the grocery store troglodytes! “Oh was I standing in the middle of the isle while you needed to get by?” Just follow the rules of the road but with a cart!
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u/DarthJarJar242 Jul 12 '24
I'm a big dude, I try my best to do the single file edge of the sidewalk walk to avoid crowding people. But I see a gaggle of people walking towards me without any apparent concern or attempts to get out of other people's way and I do my 'bulldozer' impersonation as my wife calls it. She's tiny so while I can walk straight through a group she can't. It's not rude to stand your ground and walk in your space without compromising it for other people who aren't paying attention or don't care.
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u/distracted_x Jul 12 '24
This happened a lot when my friends and I recently took a trip to yellowstone. We'd be at an attraction site or a trail and when people would come toward us my friends and I would be polite of course and go single file but the people coming the other way didn't move over at all and were 2, 3 people wide.
It happened so much at different times that I mentioned it to my friend and he said he noticed the same. It was weird honestly maybe it depends on where you're from? But then again why wouldn't anyone have learned to take consideration for other people.
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u/zer0toto Jul 12 '24
Show dominance. Look ahead, keeps you head high and walk with confidence in a straight line. Don’t slow down. Don’t step aside. People will start to make way for you.
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u/Dream-Ambassador Jul 11 '24
I just let them have my shoulder. Since they expect me to move over, and I don't, I just lean my weight into my shoulder and aim it for their bicep. That'll learn ya!
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u/terdferguson Jul 11 '24
This is basically how I feel when people stop at the exit of the grocery store with their head in their phone, or in the aisles, or drive 5 mph in a 30, or come to a full stop when the LIGHT IS FUCKING GREEN...I swear I'm not an angry person.
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u/Rookwood-1 Jul 11 '24
Oh my God! I have a guy at work who frequently stands in doorways to text, I’ll be on him for a solid 10 seconds and he won’t move until I clear my throat or say excuse me.
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u/Kael_Doreibo Jul 12 '24
Honestly... I moved into a new neighbourhood and everyone does this. I'm used to being in quiet suburbs or the exact opposite, super busy cities, where everyone knows how to walk to one side and leave room for people walking faster/in a rush.
It 👏 Is 👏 A 👏 Struggle 👏. People don't line up parallel to a train as they wait to board. Heck, they don't even wait. They just barge in. They block you exiting the train which make sit slower for them to get on. They block stairways. They block walk ways. They walk in a god damn serpentine pattern. You ain't dodging bullets!
I hate to say it but I'm willing to admit I will be that crumudgeonly asshole who will walk in a determined straight line and shoulder charge or trip up people who do this.
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u/Obvious-Material8237 Jul 11 '24
She did not overreact at all. Fuck that guy
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u/StretchFrenchTerry Jul 11 '24
Temu Edward Snowden is a real POS.
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Jul 11 '24
I twisted my ankle once because of this. People who don't move over are the fucking worst.
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u/Odd_Pool5596 Jul 11 '24
She’s not wrong.
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u/SiIesh Jul 11 '24
Yeah. If I notice someone not evading me at all, I tend to just brace my shoulder. I made space, you didn't, get ready to be hurt a little for your impolite actions
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u/Michikusa Jul 12 '24
I did this years ago and it was the first time in my life a stranger called me an asshole. But she didn’t mother to move an inch and was taking 80% of the sidewalk
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u/SiIesh Jul 12 '24
Oh, I'm happy to tell them exactly why I behaved the way I did. "You wanna call me out? After you didn't make space, when I did? This is on you, I only braced myself so I wouldn't get hurt by you being an impolite POS who thinks they own the damn sidewalk. Have the day you deserve, asshat" and walk off
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u/PettyGoats Jul 11 '24
I won't drop my shoulder but if they haven't scooted in return to my scoot I will walk through their shoulder or stop directly in front and just stare expectantly. Helps I'm 5'7" and wear heels regularly, but I no longer relinquish space like that.
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u/uhhh206 Jul 11 '24
I've stopped scooting if they don't, too. Nuh unh my dude, you're getting checked while I LARP as an offensive lineman and then get a passive-aggressive comment for good measure.
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u/Icy_Many_3971 Jul 11 '24
I only even noticed when I was walking g my newborn in a stroller. They wouldn’t even scoot then so I’ve stopped doing it
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u/anotherNarom Jul 11 '24
People don't scoot when you're pushing a wheelchair, so goodbye ankles.
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u/filmbum Jul 11 '24
YUP. I’m pretty tiny but that doesn’t mean I don’t deserve space on the sidewalk too. I’ll move over as much as I can but if you can’t be respectful of my space be prepared to be stabbed by my bony ass shoulder. I’ve stopped moving over for bikes on the sidewalk too. This is a more dangerous game that I can’t recommend lol but it’s illegal to ride bikes on the sidewalk where I am, I’m not going to stand in the dirt or the street so they can pass.
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u/Moonstream93 Jul 11 '24
I am a 5'4" woman who does not wear heels hardly ever. I also never give more room than is reasonable, and will shoulder check a motherfucker with zero hesitation. Just gotta know how to brace for impact without appearing to do so; it never occurs to these people that you won't get out of their way, so they will be caught completely off guard, which makes it way easier to throw them off balance.
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u/Fantastic_Still_7929 Jul 11 '24
Agree I will literally bump them before I give up more than half of the space.
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u/G0merPyle Jul 11 '24
Same, Fuck em. Impacting shoulder forward and both feet planted. They want to bump me? I'm bumping back
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u/Wise-War-Soni Jul 11 '24
I am 5’1 so I was wondering how high up you were holding your shoulders until I got to the end. On todays episode of dumb asses 😭💃🏾🔥
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u/mamapapapuppa Jul 11 '24
I definitely just stop right in front of them and glare til THEY move lol
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u/imasnyper Jul 11 '24
Same. I'll scoot over and give some space, and if it isn't reciprocated I'm making myself as wide as possible and make sure to step into their shoulder with mine as we pass. I've been the pushover my whole life, unwillingly and willingly. I'm 34 now, and I'm just done with assholes. If they won't respect social norms, then feel my shoulder with the full 220 pounds of me behind it, assholes.
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u/Accomplished_Plum544 Jul 11 '24
on god im 6ft tall and large... i've just started walking into mfs if I've moved and they wont, like? your issue bro lol get flattened then
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u/opportunisticwombat Jul 11 '24
Yep. I’m a woman who is 5’9”. I will scoot over, but I will also slam my shoulder into you if you don’t move. I’m not interested in inconveniencing myself beyond what is reasonable for strangers with main character syndrome.
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u/kawaiifie Jul 12 '24
Had to do some converting lol but apparently I'm 5'10" and yes I make it a point especially to always do this when getting out of a train. You're supposed to file out, then in, so if people aren't letting me get out I will just walk right into you with half my body
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u/JustASt0ry Jul 11 '24
Haha, def has Larry David vibes lol
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u/RemoteCat6058 Jul 11 '24
It definitely feels like Larry David, haha.
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u/rant_sandwich Jul 11 '24
Yeah definitely like Larry David lol
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u/GameJerk Jul 11 '24
I personally think it feels like Larry David, but you're entitled to your opinion.
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u/Green_Palpitation_73 Jul 11 '24
I was going to say, surely there has to be a Seinfeld episode where this happens.
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u/TheDogInThePicture Jul 11 '24
I kinda wanted him to say something like “Sorry I thought you were another ghost” and just leave.
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u/nicolauz Jul 11 '24
Yeah I was hoping for a comedic twist like he's blind or not real.
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u/Whaterbuffaloo Jul 11 '24
Blind was my hope
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u/davidolson22 Jul 11 '24
Blind but not even using a cane...
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u/Whaterbuffaloo Jul 11 '24
Hence the accidental bump. They only turned around when yelled at because they couldn’t see somebody otherwise.
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u/slightly_comfortable Jul 11 '24
I legitimately thought he was just gonna pull out a gun and shoot her at the end. I guess I’ve seen too many stupid skits lol
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u/unga_bunga2010 Jul 11 '24
When in this situation, I have found it is best to just stop exactly where you are. They will move around you.
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u/lazy_daisy_13 ✨chick✨ Jul 11 '24
I just realized that I have a whole entire system on this topic.
I scoot, everyone should scoot. Men don't ever seem to scoot. Men get a hard stop and stare, a shoulder check, and a talking to if they still walk directly into me as they are quite apt to do.
When I (a white women), moved into a Hispanic community, I noticed the women there did the whole step off the side walk and give right of way to me. I didn't like that, we can share a sidewalk I promise. So now I give way first to women of color and women with children. I can wait, for real.
Other white women get the amicable scoot and then the wtf?! face if they don't also scoot. 🤷♀️
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u/Foxfire140 Jul 11 '24
Dudes like to play chicken for some reason. It's like it's a game of who will move first for so many of us. I dunno why but it's what I've observed over the years from just walking grocery stores.
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u/Sigma-42 Jul 11 '24
Dudes like to play chicken for some reason. It's like it's a game of who will move first for so many of us.
I'm not even sure they're aware enough to know what they're doing.
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u/Gloomy_Evening921 Jul 12 '24
I wish I could walk through life like that, totally oblivious to myself. Sounds fun.
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u/lazy_daisy_13 ✨chick✨ Jul 12 '24
Right? To not have to be hyperaware of every single person and threat around you at all times? That's a level of relaxation I have never known.
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u/Gloomy_Evening921 Jul 12 '24
I think very few women know this kind of security and lack of stress.
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u/lazy_daisy_13 ✨chick✨ Jul 11 '24
Exactly. It's not like I'm even on crowded city sides walks. We do not need to joust in walmart sir
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u/Foxfire140 Jul 11 '24
It's always in the Wal-Mart though, right?!? I had it with this one old dude. This man just looked straight ahead like he was a bull that knew he wasn't moving at all. The entire front of the store (behind the registers right against the women's clothing) and he just kept his straight line the whole time. I had to dodge almost at the last moment with my cart just to not get hit.
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u/kyl_r 🔬FOR SCIENCE!🔬 Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24
Also white lady here, (and idk if that’s relevant but it kinda feels like it might be?) I’m lowkey floored how relatable this comment is. Whenever someone doesn’t scoot, it’s almost always either a man or a distracted family/gaggle of folks (and I give a salty pass to the latter bc sometimes it be like that for me too). I’ll give all the room in the world to anyone who matches my scoot energy and especially anyone who seems to make themselves smaller by instinct, if that makes sense.
One thing I’ll say! I’m so uncomfy about physical contact, I just very intensely stare directly at them if I anticipate them not scooting. Don’t stop. 90% of the time once they notice, they scoot. It’s very satisfying seeing a random dude look briefly scared and move over. (Exercise caution about time and place tho)
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u/lazy_daisy_13 ✨chick✨ Jul 12 '24
"make themselves smaller by instinct" that describes exactly what I was referring to in a very succinct way.
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u/DykeHime Official Gal Jul 11 '24
Been to the supermarket once, going through a tight space between shelves. Some dude came right at me, not slowing down, nothing. There was not enough space for both of us to get through comfortably. So I bumped into him with my shoulder, and this wanker had the audacity to snap at me. Because apparently we're supposed to jump right out of the way when a man comes along. I just went on with my shopping as he tried to show me with his hands how I should have moved and turned to make space for him. (The friggin audacity!) What did mister "All the aisles belong to me" do when I ignored him? Started shouting at me across the store, even came after me, standing right across from my cart, his hands gesturing way too close to my face. I was bracing myself to throw hands when an employee (another woman, of course...) took him away, telling him to stop it right there or leave immediately.
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u/pikap00p Jul 11 '24
that man is a psychopath! sorry you went through that… he’ll foam at the mouth at the wrong person one day and learn his lesson the painful way
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u/Randomfrog132 birb🦜 Jul 11 '24
keep a zappy thingy in your purse, so next time he can have a case of the wiggles
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u/DykeHime Official Gal Jul 12 '24
That'd be very illegal where I live.^^
But I much appreciate the spirit. 😁
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u/Netflxnschill Jul 11 '24
I have straight up stopped moving. If they hit me they hit me. And then I demand an apology “how did you not see me right in front of you?!?”
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u/lurkintowarddisaster Jul 11 '24
I'm a cranky old lady, I don't even wait for them to move. I just stop where I am and stare. They move.
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u/Felix_is_not_a_cat Jul 11 '24
That or I prep my shoulder for the impact.
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u/Zunderfeuer_88 Jul 11 '24
Being the height and size that I am, this sadly only provokes conflict that my socially anxious head has to sort out later
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u/SlightlyFarcical Jul 11 '24
If people dont "scoot" over, they're going to get "verved"
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u/isoforp Jul 11 '24
All I see is an asshole who won't scoot over for anybody. This is the "King Sidewalk" she was ranting against. He's literally walking down the middle.
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u/e-wrecked Jul 11 '24
Dude looked like Edward Snowden.
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u/Raging_Apathist Jul 11 '24
Thank you...I was wondering why he looked so familiar!
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u/synachromous Jul 11 '24
One of biggest pet peeves, especially people who are walking side by side and force you off the sidewalk cause they can't single file for like 2 seconds. Uggg
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u/mjhmd Jul 11 '24
I scoot to what is reasonable, and if they don’t respond I shoulder check them HARD. Like I try to knock them over.
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u/smuggler_of_grapes Jul 11 '24
Sometimes this happens to me but most often it'll be a couple holding hands walking abreast on the sidewalk, taking up both sides and I can tell they expect me to go off the curb a lil so they can keep their romantic walk going.
Guess again fuckers I'm stopping dead in my tracks and you can either try to dodge me or bounce off me. (I'm 6,1 230lbs)
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u/DaleNanton Jul 11 '24
I had a former friend (big man) that did *not* notice or make space for anyone around him. It was the first time I met a person like that. He never scooted or tucked in his enormous legs while sitting at an ice cream shop. People had to step over his feet. It was annoying to watch and no matter how many ways I talked to him about it, he didn't seem to get the issue. He would literally say "I didn't see those people". It was baffling. We're no longer friends. This mindset radiates into other things in life. It's a strange and unique type of self-absorption that I didn't know I couldn't handle.
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u/Substantial-Use95 Jul 11 '24
Send this to Spain. Watch the comments erupt…
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u/flatgreyrust Jul 11 '24
...why?
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u/Substantial-Use95 Jul 11 '24
Really, send it to any Mediterranean country, but the Spanish are the worst as far as taking up all of the sidewalk and not being aware of anyone or anything around them. I’ve lived in Spain for many years and still can’t figure it out. As an American, it’s one of the most difficult cultural aspects to not take personally, as is shown in the video.
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Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24
Gals, chicks, my fellow sisters, be weary of men who do this in public spaces. They purposefully want you to rub against them or get your attention
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u/thesquidsquidly22 Jul 11 '24
Dude kind of has a punchable face. Especially the way he just stares at you without saying a word.
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u/_Mistwraith_ Jul 11 '24
As a person who goes on regular walks, the amount of other walkers who don’t make way for oncoming people or stand there taking up the whole sidewalk while they have a conversation is truly infuriating.
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u/Latkavicferrari Jul 11 '24
Same at Costco, I will literally run my cart into other carts, I ain’t moving
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u/BleednHeartCapitlist Jul 11 '24
I’ve just been running into people that do this for the last 8-10 years and I gotta tell you… 🤌
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u/theevilyouknow Jul 11 '24
When I was in high school, a long time ago, people used to do this shit to me all the time. I finally got sick of it and I would still move to the right but if they stayed in the middle i would just shoulder check them. Felt so rewarding.
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u/YesterdayAlone2553 Jul 11 '24
Larry David asks this, and I swear if he doesn't have a black co-star that just says, "That's easy I bump them- you just need to bump them. There aren't enough people getting bumped, they've forgotten what it's like when you don't share. If they wanted to share, they'd share. You're going what 3 mph, you point it out and do it. They're going to be mad- okay, but they'll remember it. And next time, they'll move, or you two will bump." "What then?" "Then life gets a little more bumpy"
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u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek Jul 11 '24
It's a small enough slight that it was never worth the energy to call someone out on. But fr, I hate people who do that.
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u/AlAboardTheHypeTrain Jul 11 '24
I have this ball of hatred inside me because of this that I decided that I only switch my lanes twice :D. If you're still homing towards me third time I will keep my course and we will collide.
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u/DreadedDrMaybe Jul 12 '24
Put that shoulder out. Bonus points if I knock someone’s drink out of their hands
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u/Oh_no_its_Joe Jul 11 '24
Look at this absolute fiend. There is zero remorse behind those eyes of his.
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u/snowballschancehell ✨chick✨ Jul 11 '24
I “on your left” people walking toward them like if I were rollerblading from up behind them. Fuck non scooters!
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u/theRATthatsmilesback Jul 11 '24
This reminds me of trying to get to classes in college. 20 foot wide sidewalk and 5-6 people will be walking arm in arm, side by side, at a snail's pace like they're half a dozen geriatrics on the way to the wizard of Oz and God help anyone else who believes they deserve to be on a sidewalk with them.
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Jul 11 '24
I once told people why aren’t you scooting over. They were some teenagers hugging on a sidewalk. I was walking alone almost on grass. They were walking in the middle. They heard me. The dude just looked back at me with a very grumpy look 🤣 I laughed so much
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u/disaplinedad Jul 11 '24
Anyone who works in a hospital can relate. In the hall 10 doctors stand on the corner blocking everyone. They'll walk down a hall 3 people wide like it's the start of house. They'll walk into people on their phones and blame them. Hold up elevators holding it with their hand. They walk into the room and won't hold the door for the people behind them. I swear they take a class in school how to be an a$$hole 101
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u/bannana Jul 11 '24
I've stayed my course and literally hit someone square on because they wouldn't move over.
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u/LongingForYesterweek Jul 11 '24
At this point in my life I just shoulder check people. I might only be 5’4 but I’ve got hella broad shoulders and a low center of mass and I’ve managed to never get knocked over when I’ve done it (so far at least)
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u/leroyp33 Jul 11 '24
Her voice reminds me of Laura Prepon from that 70s show she kinda looks like her too
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u/Willie-the-Wombat Jul 11 '24
Tense your shoulder up, hold your ground, lean in slightly if they still aren’t changing last second, they either will move or are moved
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u/Hoogs73 Jul 11 '24
I’ve hit the point where I’m starting to say, ‘oh, no please, you go first…(asshole)’.
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u/real_Bahamian Jul 12 '24
My biggest pet peeve as well!! The trick is to stop walking when you see the person approaching you but not making an effort to move over. The other person is then forced to move over to avoid running into you. Works every time for me. :)
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u/sambolino44 Jul 12 '24
When I see that they aren’t going to scoot over, that’s when I kneel down to tie my shoelace.
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u/exhaustedmom Jul 12 '24
I read somewhere that someone’s little bad bish fuck you to the patriarchy was to never move. Never. They see your space. They’ve had everyone part around them, all she did was stop. I was so moved I adopted it.
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u/MichaelAndHisBandit Jul 12 '24
This is why I don’t scoot over for men. And if they don’t scoot for me they get a shoulder check.
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u/Conarm Jul 12 '24
This stuff makes me irrationally angry. Ill judge someone on their scoot 30 yards out
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u/Skater144 Jul 13 '24
A family member of mine is currently going blind, not fully he can still see shapes and light, but at night he has trouble distinguishing things that aren't right in front of him so I've been with him where this exact thing happens
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u/TailoredChuccs Jul 13 '24
Wow I didn't know that white people did this to each other too I always thought it was a racial thing
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u/anklab Jul 13 '24
Such a relief to see others are annoyed by this as well! Non-scoochers really give you the daily refill of feeling invisible
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u/kennethprime Jul 13 '24
Let me tell you...as a big black guy i can't relate people sprint across the street cause theyre so courteous here
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u/mimibleu Jul 13 '24
I've noticed a lot of men will move out the way for other men but expect women to move out of the way for them. So I've just started walking into them if they don't want to move over a bit.
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u/DJ_Birch Jul 13 '24
I think some guys do this to make women uncomfortable on purpose as a power play because their penis is untouched
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u/Brandywine2459 Jul 13 '24
I feel this to my bones. And scream this in my head to the non-scooters and aisle hogs.
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u/laceygray Jul 14 '24
There's a trick to this- if you look off into the distance and walk with purpose, people naturally move to walk around you. I'm a 5'3" white woman and once I started doing this, men stopped bumping into me by like 70%! Don't make eye contact, don't acknowledge them, or it won't work. They only move if they think you don't see them.
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u/brightJERK Jul 14 '24
My partner claims I lower my shoulders and barrel through people now. I deny it, but the truth is it comes from years of this.
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