If there is one thing that really irks me these days is people and their spatial awareness. Walk down a town or city centre street these days and people are usually doing everything except looking where they are going.
One of the main culprits that lends itself heavily to being spatially inept is the mobile phone as people walk headlong at you whilst staring into their phone screen. Another spatial awareness crime is walking out of a shop straight into the throng of passing people without even a cursory left or right glance. Would you pull out onto a busy road without looking? Or course not. People would benefit from actually applying the rules of the road to walking in busy pedestrian areas.
Not being the tallest person I try plan ahead slightly when walking, crowded areas can be problematic though as the view of possible horizons can be obscured thus I try to scan ahead and read what's going on, though like anyone I can make mistakes. These days walking from A to B isn't easy, distractions, people in a hurry, others just sauntering and lunatics on bicycles in my town (which is very flat) all add to making walking a chore at times. Let's not forget old people too, who can be very zombie apocalypse in the way they gravitate towards you at times or the ones quite willing to take you out with their mobility scooters.
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