Pedestrians – again

I wish I understood people who walk. Bearing in mind that I’m one of them, you’d think that gaining an insight on the mindset wouldn’t be that difficult, but no, it is.

So far as I can tell, a great majority of pedestrians are – frankly – fucking stupid. Or suicidal. I haven’t quite figured out which yet. For instance, I completely fail to understand the way people – particularly couples – have to walk side-by-side and/or hand-in-hand, and block an entire pathway. Especially when it’s a subway or similar, and there’s no alternative way past. Why do it? Are they “so in love” </vomit> that they can’t bear to be seperated for even 3o seconds?

Equally (and I know I’ve mentioned this before) I don’t understand why some fuckwit cunts idiots have to walk on the cycle-path when there’s a perfectly good footpath right beside it. It makes life really bloody awkward, and even more so when they don’t have any spatial awareness of what’s going on around them – although I do tend to yell “Get out the fucking way” when they’ve also ignored the bike bell. Sometimes I don’t bother with the bell, and just yell at them anyway…

I also simply don’t get how people can walk out into a road (and in one recent case, a dual carriageway) without looking to see what’s coming. Do they believe they’re invincible? Or that all road-users will simply stop for them?