This section, I think, will be very popular since it is devoted to
criticizing unpopular characters or social categories.
For the first issue, we have a very negligible entity to which one can
dislike about 5 minutes tops but, at the same time, it is very hard not to come
across it at least once a day… every day. Yes, you guessed, we're talking about
people who walk at +/- 5% of our speed.
This rabble, who has the audacity to walk nearly at the same speed as us, and along the same path, it's really annoying. If anyone had not noticed it until now and is beginning to notice it, I regret having shit your lives. There are physical reasons but also a psychological discomfort that make us feel this annoyance.
This rabble, who has the audacity to walk nearly at the same speed as us, and along the same path, it's really annoying. If anyone had not noticed it until now and is beginning to notice it, I regret having shit your lives. There are physical reasons but also a psychological discomfort that make us feel this annoyance.
Among the physical ones, we found several factors. On the one hand, it is
inevitable that a person walking a little slower than we becomes a nuisance
since they do not let us pass them quickly. If we try, we have to wait until
nobody is walking in the opposite direction or take the precaution of walking
in wider sidewalks, something that is not always an option. Something similar
happens when somebody else is trying to overtake us.
On the other hand, it is very annoying that someone passes us, but then they
decide to slow down, stabilizing at a speed very similar to ours and only 1
meter forward. One gets the feeling that at any moment you will step on their
heel, taking off this person´s shoe. I don´t want to talk about those who
overtake us and then greatly decrease its speed, making us to re-pass them.
These people are a walking social calamity. They do not deserve to be qualified
otherwise. This concept can be extended to the case in which you are driving your
car and the same happens.
As for the reasons of a psychological nature, we know that we all like to
belong to the community. However, I think that we do not seek empathy with
others by means of walking at the same speed than the rest. It is very
difficult to get everyone in one block to walk at the same speed. Even more, it
is impossible that everyone likes the same things. This is why governments all around
the world are constantly looking for things we can all hate at the same time such
as large corporations, terrorism, the Soviets, the Nazis or bears (btw, if you
hate the Bears, vote for the Yes on 24). Walking speed, however, functions as
one of the mechanisms that a normal human being has to differentiate himself from
the rest.
We all believe that our speed is correct. Those who walk a little faster
are fools sin they do not realize that walking faster implies getting tired to
save about 5 seconds per block which, btw, are inevitably lost when we arrive
at the traffic lights in the corner; those walking slower are lazy people who
are doomed to die of a heart attack at the age of 35 for not having exercised
enough while walking every day. This implies that when we come across a person
walking at our same speed, we do not encounter just another human being but a
rival. This generates a deep hatred.
When we add up the contempt arising from physical and psychological reasons,
we get an explosive cocktail. This is why when I am faced with the dilemma of
passing or not someone who walks about as fast as I do, I incline towards one
of two alternatives: either I slow down for a while to stand way back and avoid
being disturbed by this person, or I increase speed decisively.
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