Walking back to happiness

[venta]

1. If walking up a busy, crowded staircase in a public place (say, a railway station) do not remain glued to your phone. Some staircases are not segregated by direction of travel and you may walk into someone coming down said staircase.

2. When reaching the top of an escalator in a busy place, or passing through a gate such as a railway ticket barrier, do not stop. Not even if you want to read the arrivals board, wait for your friends, etc. Move to the side, then stop. This is particularly true in the escalator case when the people behind you cannot stop even if they wish to.

3. If walking through a slow-moving crowd, do not push the person in front of you. Especially do not repeatedly ram a push chair into their ankles. It will not enable them to go any faster.

Violation of these rules will result in your licence to walk being revoked.

By order.

Comments

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

I'd vote for you to be the next Mayor of London.

[erming.livejournal.com]

I find stepping backwards hard into said pushchair often stops further assaults on the ankles.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Or doing a really bad fart, though this is not quite so doable on demand.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Some people seem to be able to do it, can't say I've ever got the trick of it.

Trouble is, I feel that it would also affect all the other people in the crowd who had nothing to do with the pushiness!

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Would loud do instead of bad? Easier to manage with an mp3 player and a theatrically buttock unclenching step[1].


[1] When I woke up this morning I had no idea I would be using that sentence today.