What I especially hate are those people who see someone they know walking towards them and instead of stopping off to the side to have a chat, they just walk slower and turn their heads around to keep talking. Since they are no longer looking where they’re going, this forces other people to walk around them, trying not to get in their meandering path.
Complaints so far seem to focus on assaults on your body. But what about assaults on your ears?
Jackie is walking along, and sees her friend Lucy in the distance. Lucy is walking away. Jackie decides to get Lucy’s attention. “Lucy! Hey, Lucy! YO, LUUUUUUUCYYYYYYY!”
"YO, LUUUUUUUCYYYYYYY!"
But Joackie is not shouting at Lucy. Instead, she is shouting directly down your eardrum. At a distance of 14 inches. And a decibel level of 120.
Do NOT make eye contact with the offenders. Like one of the above posters mentioned, this will only cause you both to do the dance of “which way should I go?, which way is he going?, I don’t know but I’m trying to guage his actions by watching his eyes” if you both decide to take evasive action to avoid collision.
If you’re the guy who has chosen to NOT make eye contact then you will be given the right of way. Unless you both employ the same evasion machanism.
The people that get me are the one who walk painfully slow in front of you when you’re in a hurry and block the entire 10 foot wide halway, like they’re having a mobile conference or something. C’mmon people, not everyone can take 15 minutes to get to the lunch room!! Some of us have work to do.
If you can’t hear my clumping size 14 footsteps bearing down on you from behind…
I generally find that these people do not, in fact, cross the sidewalk. Instead, they turn right so that they are walking my way, right in front of me. At approximately 0.000000001 MPH.
I have found a way to deal with this. It seems to work about 75% of the time.
I’ll stop in my tracks and put my hands on my hips, and give them a stare that says “Move it you fucking assclown.” Or I’ll walk with very slow, very deliberate steps, as if the slowpokes are a major inconvenience to me, and I’m mocking their slowness.
Surprisingly, this usually earns me a smile and an invitation to go around. I always smile back, take up the invitation, and everything is cool.
Huh? How does this match up with this?:
So the world does owe you, and you should be able to squeeze in wherever you want, but it’s O.K. because you give The Wave? I see. 
No, assuming you deserve to be let in is okay if you compensate for it by taking your hand off the steering wheel during a turn and wave.
I’m a middle aged woman, and I notice that groups of young men will form a single file when they see me, but groups of young women just keep on walking three+ abreast and expect me to get out of their way.
By far the worst are the supermarket meetings. I go to a grocery with wide aisles where two carts can easily pass one another, but people insist on holding conversations in such a way that they block the entire eisle.
Hell yes the world owes me. 
Obviously we all have times when we need to merge in traffic. I try to be as nice as possible about it, like getting in early rather than driving up to the front of the line of cars. That behavior is assholish and the reason for a lot of traffic problems.
In most of these walking situations, doesn’t the simple phrase, “Excuse me,” take care of the situation? I find that it does, especially in the supermarket, where the offender will generally move the cart out of the way and apologize for blocking the aisle. But then, if you’d rather just stew about it and raise your blood pressure, then by all means do so.
That’s not the point of the posts. It’s that the people SEE you coming and still don’t move, or are oblivious to the obvious common courtesy of moving slightly out of the way so you can get through without having to say excuse me. Some things should just be obvious to most people, yet aren’t.
Ah, sidewalk rage.
My favorite is when two or more old farts (or fartettes) are blocking a sidewalk or passageway as they slooowly wend their way. Age or infirmity may well slow you down…but if you know it, why not keep to the right or AVOID WALKING THREE ABREAST. Beyond this, there’s the joy of politely saying “Excuse me” as you come up behind them, having them reluctantly give you room to pass, and then after you’ve gone by, hearing one comment “Some people are in such a hurry nowadays.”
My preferred response: “Well ma’am, some of us have a few things to accomplish before we toddle off to the crematorium.”
No, I’ve never actually said this, just thought it.
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissimaI encounter the same sort of thing when it comes to the opening of doors. I adore when people (it’s usually men, but sometimes women) open the door for me - it is such a nice, little gesture that just makes my day. Because I appreciate it so much, I try to do the same for others.[/QUOTE]
That seems to be the general opinion, but, ya know, I really prefer that the person ahead just go on in or out and let me open my own door. It’s much easier for me than to have them hold the door and then still be in the doorway that I’m about to go through.
I suppose I ought to mention that I’m a crabby octogenarian.
Well, that would imply that I´m excusing for my behaviour, when the other person is the one blocking the way; maybe you could add a “to” on the middle to get the point across…
That’s one way to look at it. Or you say it for what you’re really saying - as a command. You’re telling them/asking them to get out of your way when you say “excuse me”. Just don’t ever say “I’m sorry”. 
They do this on my campus too, exept they do it in BIKE PATHS.
Ok people, side walks are for pedestrians, and I’ll grant you the edge of the bike path too, but not the whole damn path! Its a bike path! It is for bikes! Get outta the way! And heres a tip: that ringing sound means move right this second or I will run you down.
Being a gig guy it happens less often to me than to my wife. But on those occasions that it does, if they have their back to me I’ll say "excuse me…EXCUSE ME… MOVE! in my best Public Address/Drill Sargent voice. Always works. If they are approaching, I will stop in place and if they continue I will drop a shoulder in my best linebacker stance.
I’d like to add the folks that walk down the middle of the driveway/street of a parking lot three abreast with their basket looking for their car. Like it was some kinda bigass sidewalk. Move your fat ass over to the edge and let someone by jackass. I don’t want to watch you waddle all the way out to the end of this lot.
And those in the store that leave their cart sideways on the right side of the asile while they memorize every variation of a product on the shelf on the left side of the asile.
Well, if it’s Bad Pedestrian Pit time, how about those who walk in the street with their backs to traffic? It’s dangerous, they can’t see approaching cars.
I swear people find a way to fill up any corridor, even the ridiculously wide ones at the Costco where I live. No matter how hard they try to make a space wide enough to fit the entire continent’s population, people just have to thwart their plans by jamming up the whole damn walkway and moving collectively as slow as possible. I’m talking about people who don’t even know each other. They’ll turn their carts sideways, make new friends, do whatever they can all in an attempt to drive me to murder. Rat bastards.
I agree: put some force into the second syllable and slam a fiery exclamation point on the end: “Exc**u*se me!” It helps to say “motherfucker” in your head immediately after.
As I tried to get into my ShopRite one morning when the temp was 2 degrees, some guy blocked the entrance while speaking Spanish into a cell phone. I asked him to move, but he just looked at me like I was the one in wrong. I didn’t know if he didn’t understand English (though my mission should have been clear) or he wondered why I would demand anything from his old macho ass.
I went in the out door.