People walking 3 or 4 abreast towards you!!!!!!!!!! What do you do???????

[DisneyDadC]

just stand my ground and make them walk around.But then again I am very easy going so if ya get me in right mood I might just walk around ya

 

[TDC Nala]

Have a bunch of these made and stick them on their backs as they pass.

 

[pdmeroc]

I don't like when people do this as well. If I am alone or walking, I ussually get out the of way. If I have a stroller, I go right through. To hard to turn the stroller and sometimes you would have to plow into others to move.

One of my favorites...that I don't do very often....is to turn the and walk with them and pretend like I don't see them. Kinds of breaks them up and it can be kind of fun to watch them try to talk around you. Only takes a few steps before the group breaks up to get away from you. I know this is childish, but it can be fun.

 

[DWDude]

Thanks for your comments everyone.
What I wonder is WHY DO THEY DO IT?
Any guesses?

 

[trivial]

If I'm standing still, I do nothing. If I'm walking towards them, I'll veer to the left or right of them. Is this a trick question?

 

[phillyatdisney]

Having a stroller helps out, I just plow straight through......

 

[karrit2000]

I usually stop dead in my tracks. I have bad knees and trying to bob & weave is very painful for me. I will try to veer away but when the offending party is staring off into space or turns the same way I just did that is when I come to a screeching halt. I've gotten a lot of dirty looks but my knees hurt a lot less. Now what do we do with the ignoramouses who when one member of their party stops the rest of them line up evenly with the first person until they block the entire walkway in both directions?

 

[Mike©]

What if they are from England?

Here's one. It's raining and I want to walk close to the building under the awning. Often I will stop and stand against the building, or if it is a store, stop and stand against the building looking in the window.

In an earlier lifetime (high school) I did plow through people in the hall going in the same direction every so often but I really regret it now. A better thing to do would be to eavesdrop on their conversation.

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Lets see now, I don't think that I would go to the UK and drive on the right because I'm a American.
Stopping and standing is one thing. Walking 4 and 5 abreast against pedestrian flow is both rude and just plain stupid!

 

[rosiep]

For those of you that have read some of my posts, this is going to come as a surprise to you. I don't even give it a thought. It is just as easy for me to be courteous and step out of the way then to expect them to do so.

In the end, I was the good guy and they were not. I move along feeling good about myself and couldn't care less what they are feeling, but I hope it is guilt.

After reading these replies I was wondering how anyone could think it was the other guy that were rude! I'd move too, it costs me absolutely nothing......but I'd walk away and not even give it a second thought.

 

[martinrmn]

Turn your shoulders as though giving way then at the last minute turn them back! If they say anything ask them if they want to father children in the future!

 

[Tucker710]

We plow right through!! That is one of my pet peeves!! Along with the people who like to stop in the middle of walking to have a conversation or look at a map...move to the side people!!!.... and the people who don't know which side of the road to walk on....grrr...I get annoyed thinking about it!!

 

[Code]

Being 6'8" has its advantages. I'm not usually the one that has to make the decision to move

 

[maxiesmom]

I can't help but think, how is 3 across rude? What do you want the 3rd person to do? Walk behind their friends, with only their rears to look at? I am afraid I am going to be one of those Rude People At Disney then this October. I'm going with my mom and dad, and I'll be darned if I will spend the whole time walking behind them, like I am being punished or something. So we need to come to terms. If we are walking 3 across and see you and your coming our way, we both need to be polite and try to avoid each other. I won't blindly continue along my way and plow into you, I will give you the space to pass, as long as you all promise to do the same.

 

[Questforthemouse]

Not quite on-topic but close enough...DW and I were at Epcot in July and we saw this female about 30yrs old talking on a cell phone looking back over her shoulder while walking at top speed thru a crowded section of WS. People were literally diving out of the way You have to wonder what goes thru some people's heads.

 

[Dopey's twin Dippy]

it drives me nuts to. i actually had that happen a few weeks ago at our mall. but a few summers ago we were at bb. and it happened more than once. i love the people in the lazy river when there are 3,4 or more that want to STAY together so they wrap their FEET on each others tubes---then people cant get by.........hello..............what is wrong with these crazies..............finally the life guards would ask them to move. but by then , alot of people including ME just plowed on through. if you want to be glued to someone,these were adults not kids, then dont be in the lazy river at bb......................ha

 

[PiperPizzaz]

I believe the OP said people coming towards you. That is a big difference than people walking the same direction as you.

If they are coming towards me (and this happens a lot at the mall) I split them up. I don't move out of their way because geez you would have to run over to the side real quick. If they bump me I really make it a point to not move. ha ha. I vagely remember that one from basketball, some kind of offensive foul, pick??? Something like that anyway.

I don't understand this either. Dh and I are not small you are going to see us from a ways away. 6'5"/5'10" AND a stroller. But nope we must be invisible.

 

[goofyernmost]

For those of you that have read some of my posts, this is going to come as a surprise to you. I don't even give it a thought. It is just as easy for me to be courteous and step out of the way then to expect them to do so.

In the end, I was the good guy and they were not. I move along feeling good about myself and couldn't care less what they are feeling, but I hope it is guilt.

I forgot to add that physically speaking...it is much easier for one person to move over than to expect a group to all sidestep in unison. I don't think very many of them are doing it just to ruin your day. There are so many things in life to worry about, this isn't one of them, IMHO!

 

[Claire19082]

I plow through them!!!! I've also knocked more than one person right on their butt when walking right at me and looking behind themselves.
OH! And you forgot un-yielding groups that also walk on the left side of walkways. ( Grrrrrrr )

We're sorry....It's an english thing I think....At schools we're taught to always walk on the left side of the corridor/stairs...It's ingrained!

 

[MsStinkerBelle]

I usually walk with my hands on my hips anyways so between my elbows sticking out and my big hips I plow right through them.

 

[my3disneygirls]

This is kind of OT. At the food store there is ALWAYS someone who stops their cart in the middle on the aisle to then stare at the product selections. As if they are the only people in the store. Sometimes I will say excuse me and they still wont move.

The other day an employee stopped a Uboat in the middle of the floor filled with empty boxes and started chatting with another employee. I tried to move it out of the way and they even saw it was in my way, then decided on another tactic. I shoved my cart by knocking off some of the boxes off at the same time. Am I suppose to wait for their conversation to end before I can finish my shopping?