Run Silent
Posted: Wed 1 February, 2006 Filed under: Thoughts 6 Comments »When I’m walking I find I tend to forget that while I’m a fairly big guy, it turns out I can walk very quietly. And fast.
Herself regular complains that I “sneak up” behind her (for which read “walk up making my normal level of noise”) and make her jump because she hasn’t heard me approaching.
Today as I walked to the train station, I was reminded of this by two people, both of whom jumped as I walked past them. One even emitted that kind of shocked “squeak” noise that’s actually quite comical. I suppose seeing someone as they come past you, walking fast enough that you could perhaps take it to be jogging/running, when you haven’t heard any noise from them, is kind of surprising.
There’s no real relevance to this, it was just something odd for today.
Escalation
Posted: Wed 1 February, 2006 Filed under: D4D™, General Leave a comment »Today, Diamond Geezer has a wonderful piece on a subject close to my own heart – Fuckwits/Yokels and Escalators (of course, he phrases it slightly more tactfully)
Well worth the read.
I wrote about this – albeit in a slightly more ranty fashion a long time back. It’s good to see nothing’s changed. Well, except the *cough* design of this site – seeing an old page I hadn’t got round to moving over really is pretty scary. And eye-damaging…