If you are walking along the street and someone is walking directly toward you.

What do you do?

Do you avoid them by stepping to the left or the right?

I tend to move to the side nearer the road, because I find most people naturally tend to go the other way.

Originally posted by Disco_Cat
If you are walking along the street and someone is walking directly toward you.

What do you do?

Do you avoid them by stepping to the left or the right?

You don't happen to be a programme-controller for ITV by any chance, do you? It just seems this is the exact kind of banal, waste of space forum that they could well turn into subject matter for dole scum to watch.

I really don't understand the point of some threads on here.

Originally posted by Disco_Cat
Do you avoid them by stepping to the left or the right?

Its a game of anticipation.. See who makes the first Lefty or Righty move, usually I give just walk straight on! :P

I just go in a straight line, they usually move.

Its all to do with body language....When you approach someone in the street and you both realise you will proberbly walk into each other..so you will look in the direction you are about to walk..as will they ...and you go in the opposite direction.
If you walk around with dark glasses etc you will find people will keep walking into you.

Originally posted by smedley
You don't happen to be a programme-controller for ITV by any chance, do you? It just seems this is the exact kind of banal, waste of space forum that they could well turn into subject matter for dole scum to watch.

I really don't understand the point of some threads on here.

Thats exactly what I thought but I was too polite to say it.

What next?

When you brush your teeth do you use an even or odd amount of strokes?

In a supermarket do you go once a week with a trolley or several times with a basket?

I mean, christ....come on.

I've been having a real problem lately every time this situation has occurred I've ended up walking straight into the person in question.

I'd always presumed body language would help determine the direction to take as previously mentioned, so maybe mine is all wrong? perhaps I'd be good at taking penalties.

I always go to the right and I just wondered if their was general consensus of people going to the left that was causing me such problems.

Sorry if I've caused you guys such offence

Originally posted by boyface
Thats exactly what I thought but I was too polite to say it.

What next?

When you brush your teeth do you use an even or odd amount of strokes?

In a supermarket do you go once a week with a trolley or several times with a basket?

I mean, christ....come on.

Well lets see you start a more interesting thread then.

Originally posted by boyface


In a supermarket do you go once a week with a trolley or several times with a basket?





i think this was a topic a while back?


personally i go several times with a basket since your interested

If you walk through Meadowhall you'd see that most people tend to go for the "head on" approach, especially if pushing a pram. It's usually a case of diving out of the way.

Originally posted by smedley
You don't happen to be a programme-controller for ITV by any chance, do you? It just seems this is the exact kind of banal, waste of space forum that they could well turn into subject matter for dole scum to watch.

I really don't understand the point of some threads on here.

start some threads instead of complaining at other peoples....

Ah, it's easier to bitch at other people's threads than to start your own, though, Ian!!

I tend to look at the other person and see which way they're going - although soemtiems you end up in that darn fool dancing mode that ends up with you nose to nose with the other bod!

Is there some tendency to go one way or the other based on handedness?

I have to say I tend to go for the outside of the causeway, towards the road, unless there's anything stopping me. I THINK that goes back to my mum who always said that a gentleman should walk on the side of the causeway closest to the road when passing.

Quite why I wasn't sure...probably to defend passing ladies from cut-purses...:)

Joe

Is this some kind of subtle way to find out people's political persuation??

Or am I missin somert??

Mat :cool:

Originally posted by t020
If you walk through Meadowhall you'd see that most people tend to go for the "head on" approach, especially if pushing a pram. It's usually a case of diving out of the way.

Too true! However, you just find yourself getting run over outside poundland after you avoided the first pram.

I tend to stand and let whoever is walking towards me decide. I'm quite big so whichever way I go I usually end up bumping into people anyway.

If it gets to the stage where we are both trying to second guess each other, then I just stop, and let people work around me. MOstly I veer right