Do they have an app that sounds like a motosai taxi revving his motor on the sidewalk behind you?

Because I move over when I hear that.

I don't.

Pricks should be on the road, not crowded footpath....the pricks already give you hell at traffic crossings so screw them.

Now that you have solved the slow walking problem, can you please deal with some of my friends. They are close walkers. By that I mean one guy can't walk in a straight line when he walks alongside of me. Hhe constantly is cutting in to my pat. I push him away and back he comes.There;s another guy who does that too. The girls seem to master the art of walking in a straightline with me until we pass a store, and tehn I get the hand yank, or in the case of the gold shop outside Tescos at Market Village a full hip check into the shop. Every bloody time we walk by, hip check. I have another friend who often insists on holding my hand. I understand that he's just doing it because of his Issan upbringing where friends do that upcountry and it's normal. However, in Hua Hin when some guy who looks like a kid (he's 35 btw and a military guy) insists on holding some chubby farang guy's hand smack dab in the middle of farangland, it draws some comments and sneers and I can do without it. I have suggested that I do not need his assistance and that it is causing some disapproving looks, but his response is, never mind if they have a problem he'll take care of it. Great, just what I need, him beating up judgemental old people.

Do they have an app that sounds like a motosai taxi revving his motor on the sidewalk behind you?

Because I move over when I hear that.

There's a bike bell app, just loaded and will be playing today Motorsai will be hard to pull off in the sky train 5555

Do they have an app that sounds like a motosai taxi revving his motor on the sidewalk behind you?

Because I move over when I hear that.

I don't.

Pricks should be on the road, not crowded footpath....the pricks already give you hell at traffic crossings so screw them.

Probably true. But I want those guys on my side if there's ever a kerfuffle. Besides, I have found most of them to be decent folk just trying to make a living in a difficult environment- and there have been too many times I've been on the back of a motosai scooter going the wrong way down a sidewalk to pass judgment on them.

Stop being in a rush all the time and you wont have a problem having to walk fast. Maybe wake up earlier for work?

To be fair. I use a electrric wheelchair and would have more use fotr the truck horn back in Australia. There I am always having to stop suddenly or divert because of people walking in my path. In Dingapre they never do, they seem to have a 360 degree awareness. Here sometimes. At least here a quiet "kor tort" usually works.

Stop being in a rush all the time and you wont have a problem having to walk fast. Maybe wake up earlier for work?

It's not about getting to work on time. I just can't walk that slow without tipping over.

So much stuff to do. So little time before I'm dead.

I can't figure out this one as well. If the floor or stairs move (moving walkways and escalator) Like at airports and stuff. Why people can't continue to walk. Floor is moving for me time to stop..... Not so bad if everyone kept right but people always wanna stand beside each other. I normally bellow excuse me before pushing past. Maybe I am rude but when I have been in a plane for a while I just want to go home

I can't figure out this one as well. If the floor or stairs move (moving walkways and escalator) Like at airports and stuff. Why people can't continue to walk. Floor is moving for me time to stop..... Not so bad if everyone kept right but people always wanna stand beside each other. I normally bellow excuse me before pushing past. Maybe I am rude but when I have been in a plane for a while I just want to go home

You'll love this - at Central Plaza on Saturday the elevator on level 4 to the outside viewing deck on level 3 wasn't working. I walked down them for a cigarette. I watched 4 or 5 groups of Thais approach the escalator at the top, realise it wasn't working and do a U-turn.

Five minutes later, two of the groups appeared at the side door to the viewing deck. They'd obviously gone in to the inside escalator, a walk of probably 50 metres, gone down, and then walked the 50 metres to the viewing deck. Go figure.

There were many that did walk down them, but it was funny to observe these two groups take the long way down.

Not so bad if everyone kept right but people always wanna stand beside each other.

Ah, grasshopper. In some societies, they stand on the right, some on the left- creating infinite confusion that causes people to bunch up for warmth and security...

Drives me up a fricking wall, too.

http://www.neii.org/safety_escalator.cfm

I presume at all times you did keep your hand firmly grasping the handrail as you pushed pased everyone.

Brilliant but not as brilliant as the other Japanese solution of "sharking".

Stop being in a rush all the time and you wont have a problem having to walk fast. Maybe wake up earlier for work?

It's not about getting to work on time. I just can't walk that slow without tipping over.

So much stuff to do. So little time before I'm dead.

Let's face it, walking is like driving to a certain extent. We can't stand people who walk slower than us, and we definitely can't stand those who walk faster than us. Why can't people walk at the proper pace??

those clever Japanese...................just a matter of time before the Chinese knock them off cheaper

Will this work on idiots standing side by side on MRT escalators?

Classic! Simplicity and cause-effect. I laughed hardest when he was in the mall. Seriously..., a bicycle in the mall...., OK.

Could it be that as bipedal locomotion slows the brain waves do as well? It would seem so.

You know what really pisses off "fast walkers" ?

People that walk faster than them !

"Fast walkers" have to be some of the most arrogant, ignorant people I ever come across on sidewalks, in malls or airports. They somehow get this attitude that because they are walking faster than the slowest of the slow, then nobody should dare to try and pass them ! It's hilarious to see the looks on their faces as you breeze by them.

You can almost hear their thoughts "What the bluddy h3ll ! I am walking bluddy fast enough, how dare you walk faster than me ! I'm the only one that should be able to decide how fast "fast" is !"

I really like to rub it in on those occasions where I get to where I'm going (airplane, restaurant, passport control, etc) and I see the "fast walkers" finally arrive. I casually look at my watch, look at them, smile and carry on. I'm sure over the years more than a few of them have had a stroke on the spot and keeled over, but by then, I was probably long gone so they weren't going to block my path any ways !

Need an Android bicycle bell App so there's no need to carry the bell.

But yes - it's us walking too fast. Tokyo is not as hot as Bangkok .... most of the time anyway

and here all this time I was lugging around horns from an old steam ship...

Need an Android bicycle bell App so there's no need to carry the bell.

But yes - it's us walking too fast. Tokyo is not as hot as Bangkok .... most of the time anyway

Out of curiosity I just had a look - and there's a couple of free bicycle bell Apps on Playstore. One says "Tired of slow walkers ..... "

I thought I was joking!

It is a better solution than what the Japanese do to slow Minke whales.

I doubt this would work in Thailand.

...a car...truck or foghorn might work as well.....

Not only Thai people. The rubber-necking tourists on Sukhumvit are much worse. But, what the hey ... chill, Bill ... what's the hurry?

My normal pace of walking, not rushing, is still way faster than most in the streets of BKK, I just give a polite "excuse me" and I seem to be OK with getting through.

Great thanks for that. I have found the hip and shoulder technique a little aggressive at times!

Yes, we all have the problem of Thai people shuffling around extremely slowly ...

In Pattaya it's mainly fat-bottomed farang, especially those waddling in pairs in slow gear holding hands or on the phone or just coming to a complete halt to look about, and totally blocking the sidewalk/pavement ... often on Beach Rd or on Pattaya Tai on market days. A bell wouldn't penetrate the oblivion bubble in which they exist. A cattle prod might work, otherwise you have to walk in the roadway to get around them.

Commerce trumps etiquette for some. But when it's just "stuff needs doing" really, slow down and smell the fumes, you can't take it with you. . .

The Japanese in the video seemed well conditioned to moving for the bell. It reminded me a bit of Pavlof's dogs.

Small enough to fit in your pocket. No one need ever see it.