One of my pet peeves... I can't be the only one

I'm not talking about power walking everywhere but walking at a downright ridiculously slow pace, especially down a narrow sidewalk or hallway, is just rude.

As long there isn't an established flow no one needs to match your pace. If people want to saunter they can saunter. There's nothing rude about it.

Yes, there is. They're holding me up.

Go around, or say excuse me. Preferably both.

Or people can just not walk excessively slowly. That's a better solution.

Forcing other people to do things they don't have to is never a better solution.

Catering to assholes is a better solution than expecting them to act like decent human beings? You're right, that sounds like a way better idea. Hell, why expect them to move at all? They should just build human barricades on sidewalks and in hallways to completely gum up foot traffic.

"Catering to assholes is a better solution than expecting them to act like decent human beings?"
Slow people are not assholes, and there's nothing indecent about a slow pace.
"Hell, why expect them to move at all?"
That's an entirely different issue.
"They should just build human barricades on sidewalks and in hallways to completely gum up foot traffic. "
Reductio ad absurdum.

If they are walking slowly and impeding others by doing so then yes, they are behaving as assholes.

Being in your line of travel is not the same as impeding you. Change you direction slightly while your a decent distance away and go around objects that are obviously moving slower than you.

If they're in the middle of a narrow hallway? Or on a sidewalk where the only way around involves stepping into mud or traffic? Yes, they are being an impediment and in doing so being an asshole. Just walk faster. It isn't fucking hard.

"Just walk faster. It isn't fucking hard."
Just walk slower. It isn't fucking hard. Same thing.

Garlog, time crunches happen and people who too slow in narrow spaces need to speed up.
I hope you understand that scenarios like happen a lot and it will make some angry.

Me walking at a reasonable pace doesn't affect anyone else, I just get further and further ahead. Them walking too slowly negatively affects me. And as I said earlier, I don't expect people to power walk, just to walk at a reasonable pace.

"Me walking at a reasonable pace doesn't affect anyone else"
It affects people when you decide to be an ass about people who are slower.

So me believing that people who are behaving like assholes should stop doing so makes me an ass? That's a ridiculous assertion.
If I get to the narrow hallway before a slow person, they aren't affected because they can continue to be slow behind me as I get to my vehicle in a reasonable amount of time. They aren't being pulled along in my wake and forced to speed up to a normal pace. If they beat me to the hallway then I am forced to alter my pace because they are behaving like an asshole.

Your wrong in believing that they are assholes.

The definition of asshole from www.dictionary.com: "a stupid, mean, or contemptible person."
Hits all three counts.

It does not on any objective basis.

Garlog, the slow person is going to be slow as they might have a different disposition about their situation.As for the person is going faster, they might be needing to reach their goal faster. The slower person is very inconsiderate as he does not move to help the faster person.
Again, I hope you understand.

People do not have a responsibility to help strangers.

I'm not saying that they need to help anyone. They just need to not actively be a hinderance. There's a big difference.

They're not actively being a hindrance. If anything, they would be passively being a hindrance.

No, because it takes a concious effort to walk that slowly. They are intentionally engaging in an act that provides them with no benefit but causes problems to others. Unless they are sadists in which case I suppose their benefit is taking joy in causing others to suffer.

"No, because it takes a concious effort to walk that slowly."
Not if that's their normal walking speed.

Then they need to respect others and move a little faster.

But in order for that to become their normal walking speed they would have had to ppractice.Putting in that much time and effort makes them more of an asshole, not less.

@serosan
I don't think they do.
@magonus
Did you have to practice to walk at the speed you walk?

Are you saying that they don't have to respect others? That is being....,well, disrespectful and disregarding to others.
I'm serious, Garlog, I hope you understand this.

No because I walk at a normal speed. If I try to walk at an abnormal speed it takes effort. If I practiced walking at an abnormal speed enough I could theoretically reach a point where it was no longer a constant effort to walk that speed.

"Are you saying that they don't have to respect others?"
No, I don't think they need to walk faster in order to be respectful.
"No because I walk at a normal speed."
People can be different, and some things that are normal for some people are abnormal for others.

In this case, they do need to speed up in to be respectful.

There's variance within the norm (mostly accounted for by height) but some people reach a point where they are so far outside the norm that it can't possibly be unintentional.

"In this case, they do need to speed up in to be respectful."
"some people reach a point where they are so far outside the norm that it can't possibly be unintentional. "
I disagree with both of these.

You can disagree and that's fine. You should be aware of the fact that you are wrong but disagree away if that's what makes you happy.

That doesn't make sense because you're the one who's wrong.

The facts support my stance but you can go ahead and ignore them. Apparently you are happy in your ignorance and have no interest in the knowledge that I am sharing. Enjoy your life of pissing people off because you want to walk really, really effing slowly.

What facts? Your entire argument hinges on your assertion that that slow people are assholes, for which there is no proof.