Slow Walking

Dearest reader, do you ever see people speed past you and looking pissed off at you?

Do you walk and look down into your phone, bumping into people and muttering apologies?

Well guess what, you’re public enemy number one and this is intervention. We all don’t like your bad habit so sit down, over there, we’ve all got some things to say.

You are a slow walker and it’s time for an airing of grievances.

If you don’t know where you’re going, step aside and figure it out. Open your map, or phone and come back into the flow of the crowd. Do not come to a complete stand still on the pavement and just start circling around aimlessly like one of those robotic vacuum cleaners.

Honestly, this is getting annoying, I see people standing in the middle of Elizabeth Street, spinning around and looking up into the sky like it’s going to help them. Google Maps isn’t reflected in the sky like a mirror.

And maybe you and your friends come into the city, and decide ‘Well, we all like the Wizard of Oz, let’s link arms and walk slowly through the streets!” How could you? We all trusted you and you let us down. What you did is utterly despicable. Walking slowly in a line, a wall, linked arms and you’re probably all looking into your giant phones.

We are all sharing the same pavement, for better or worse.

It’s cluttered enough with charity collectors, bikes, tables, chairs and the variety of buskers and musicians, construction crews and religious zealots. You can hardly walk out there for all the mess scattered everywhere and it’s high time we address this problem.

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