Rants

12-24-03

I know it's all going to hell, but I have to bitch about all those people who want to occupy the exact same space I occupy, and who advance toward me in a bizarre game of chicken in an attempt to get me to move aside. Oh you've all noticed them.

They're the folks who walk fast directly towards you on the sidewalk as if it's taken for granted you will move aside. They're the ones who walk in great side-by-side peer groups with their attention fixed on the most dominant member, pretending (Boston-style) that they don't see you, so you better move. Just when I think it's getting fashionable for young men (the worst offenders) to plump up their pathetic egos by intimidating middle-aged women on the street, here comes a middle-aged woman doing the same damn thing! I think they're all on automatic pilot.

For a few weeks about a decade ago, I used a cane and the relief was immediate. I didn't feel that I was about to be run over or assaulted as I walked down the street with my cane. Even the freaking sleepwalking idiots came slightly awake at the sight of the it. They seemed to register that it was useless to try to indimidate me into hopping out of the way because I couldn't hop.

Yes, it's Christmas shopping; that's what prompted this rant.