I think I’m a pretty good pedestrian when it comes to walking in crowds: I stick to the left, I try to walk in a straight line and I even do a shoulder check before I change direction.
Some people, however, have no concept of how to walk amongst the rest of us. These people dawdle in the centre of the aisles and suddenly stop dead without any warning, with people quickly having to jam on the brakes behind them doing that ‘up on your toes’ thing you do when you have to stop in an instant.
These people will blatantly change direction with no thought for what’s around them. And when they crash into someone, (which they will inevitably do), they have the audacity to look shocked and surprised, like the chances of them bumping into another person while they walk around like a blind skier on a slalom were slim to none!
How hard is it to look where you’re walking? There are also people who walk around while they’re reading books. What, you can’t wait to get home before you find out what spell Harry’s gonna use to get out of his latest pickle? Have a bit of common sense people: don’t use the back of your book as a bumper bar, and use your eyes to look where you’re going. That’s what they’re there for.
Speaking of eyes, did you know that Medicare in Australia won’t pay for people to get laser sight correction? That's right, they won’t pay to help people see properly. Their reasoning for this is they consider laser eye surgery to be COSMETIC. Since when did vision become an optional extra in the same basket along with breast implants and botox? I happen to rate being able to see as a fairly important survival attribute, not a confidence booster!
Being a pedestrian is a fairly easy task I would think: You walk around on the footpath and if you need to cross a road, you wait till there are no cars on it. Apparently I’m wrong. Being a pedestrian is NOT easy, which is quite ironic, as we often use the word ‘pedestrian’ to describe something that is lacking imagination or dull. No, crossing a road is a very complicated task which apparently requires concentration and dedication.
To prove this point, there is a suburb in Brisbane called Arana Hills. On the main drag through this suburb is a sign that, I shit you not, reads: “Pedestrians, only cross when road is clear.” Now I don’t know who the people are that cross this road when it’s NOT clear, but I’m guessing they’re the same inbred people who necessitated the need to change all the pedestrian traffic lights from words into pictures.
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