There is an
unspoken rule of pedestrian traffic flow.
"Ye who is traveling faster shall dodge on-comming trafic."
When I lived in Hawaii,
Japanese tourists did not follow this rule. They looked
everywhere but the direction they were moving and they were
not living by "
Hawaiian Time". They move in a spread out group,
dominating the
sidewalk and
shuffling at a clip that could only be described as "
power walking". When I was wandering down
Kalakaua avenue in the
after-noon, I took my time, strolling with
leasure. Suddenly a pack of
Japanese tourists appear in front of me,
screaming down the sidewalk
like a stampede of spooked cattle. I would literally have to jump out of the way to
avoid colliding with them.
Eventually I devised a
learning game, in which the tourists
learned to
look where the
fuck they were going and to me it was a game because it provided hours of
amusement.
This game was called "Sidewalk Pinball", this is how you
play.
Try for
distance, see how far you can fling them
backwards. Do not be afraid of
repercussions, the cops in
Hawaii hate
tourists and besides that, they ran into you. If at all possible, file charges against them for
assault.