Pavement Rage

Having gone from walking to work in a small coastal town, I now walk to work through the big city.  I walk to the bus stop, get the bus and then walk from the bus stop to work.  I figure my walk through the city is about fifteen minutes depending on weather, green traffic lights and the height of heel I've opted for on that particular day.  What I've come to realise over these past few months is that pedestrian traffic is almost as annoying as vehicular traffic.  And one can experience pavement rage, much in the way that one can experience road rage.  People are annoying.  For someone with fairly little legs I tend to walk quite swiftly.  I figure if you're going somewhere then you might as well get there in decent time and give your legs a work out whilst you're at it.  But there is always someone waiting in the wings to thwart my plan.  Some dawdler, some zig zagger, some slow coach who wouldn't know a green man if it bit him on the bum!  Just like driving on the road you get bumblers who sit in the fast lane, people who cut you up, people who switch lanes with no warning, people who crash into the back of you, people who stop with no warning and people whose reaction to the lights (or in this case the man) turning green is so slow that the precious window of time when it's your right of way is wasted.  Wasted!  And then of course there are cyclists.  And you must get out of their way because even if they're the ones cycling on the pavement and they're the ones speeding along, if you fail to get out of the way then you will get hit.  Being a pedestrian has never been so stressful!