Better Move Aside Sidewalk Idiocy
Mar 3, 2020 8:46:26 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Mar 3, 2020 8:46:26 GMT -5
Better Move Aside Sidewalk Idiocy
Recently, I focused on those who use the sidewalk to harm others with their bikes. You know, passing pedestrians very closely from behind at 40 miles per hour, hoping that the pedestrian will accidentally step in front of them, so they can injure them and call it an accident. But there are people who have a different mania which doesn't involve bicycles. Let's just call it the Better Move Aside! Sidewalk
Now, this second anti-social obsession, is not intended to catch the pedestrian by surprise. This one, the pedestrian can see gradually approaching on-foot from the direction just ahead. It usually involves a very narrow sidewalk where there is barely room for two pedestrian to pass one another. But it also happens on very broad sidewalks. Here is how it works. You step the the left to give the bastard room, and the moron moves to his right to cut you off. You move right and the imbecile moves left to cut you off. You move back to the center of the walkway and the simpleton is back at the center. In other words, either be willing to step totally off the sidewalk, or some serious shit is going to go down. Of course all human behavior has a motive and this is no exception.
Reasons for this?
Ego Boost
The pedestrian who moves aside to avoid such a confrontation is understood to have been intimidated. He is tagged as being gutless. So the ego of the pedestrian who plows mindlessly ahead gets a tremendous boost. Walks away with a concept that he finds very pleasant. I am feared! We are feared! I am tough! We are tough! He is a wimp.!They are wimps! Of course not everyone will move aside. If that happens, then the ego-maniacal pedestrian will swerve at the last moment Why? Because it isn't jail time he is after not violence. He is only after an ego boost and seeing that it failed in that particular case he decides to seek it elsewhere. Also, he might feel that he has accomplished a objective by putting on that demonstration.
MAGA
But a personal ego boost isn't always the motive. There might be political reasons involved such as making a certain member of a certain minority groups feel harassed. If the demonstration conveyed that idea, then there is a victory involved after all. You know, let them know that they are not welcomed in THEIR country in case they don't already know it. Let them know that they are disliked by people like me.
Back to Prison Ploy
Let's be honest. Some persons just want to go back to prison for the free food and board, free gymnastic facilities free educational opportunities provided there. They fee like a fish out of water when not incarcerated and so seek a way to get back into the prison system. Getting involved in a fist fight with a opponent that is smaller, older or weaker is one way to do so. S some of these bozos going around trying to crash into you and striving to force you off the sidewalk might have only that in mind.
Conclusion
It is really a sad scenario since most people who use the sidewalk in the USA do so with only one purpose in mind, to get to their destination by using their legs. That they are forced to be on the lookout against being sideswiped by bicycles or challenges to fights, or being forced to swerve in order to avoid a fight, is just not right. But as they say-it is what it is and if it is part of a sub-cultural phenomenon there is really nothing that can be done about it except be aware of the reasons why such a thing is taking place.