Dear People of Melbourne…

Posted on January 28, 08

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Dear People of the beautiful city of Melbourne,

I love you – you are the most incredible mix of people I’ve ever seen. However, I have a gripe. You all walk too fucking slow. I’ve got somewhere to go, somewhere to be, and you’re all walking at the speed of a fucking sloth. No wonder I’m nearly always late for work. And no intention of being racist here, but Asians, you are the worst offenders. You’re LIVING here, you’re no longer a tourist, therefore you can walk at a normal pace. The citizenship test needs to include a section on how to fucking walk.

Okay, I feel better now. I love you, Melbourne.

Terri -xox-

11 Comments on "Dear People of Melbourne…"

morgan says:

January 28, 2008 at 4:45pm

I somewhat agree with you, even though I may contribute a part of (only a little bit! Don’t kill me!) the traffic jams on the footpath. I generally walk fast, and if I slow down it’s because my friends are slow and I don’t want to be some loner.

I’m Asian, and I also agree with you on the slow walk of Asians. I hate it when people walk in a horizontal row across a perfectly wide footpath and a sloth speed.

Sarah says:

January 28, 2008 at 7:51pm

Its bad over here in auckland too. I’m late to most of my uni classes due to slow walking people, and turds that think that stopping in the middle of a narrow corridor to have a conversation is a great idea.

I would really love to punch slow walking people in the back of the head.

sheryl says:

January 28, 2008 at 9:42pm

ohhh I totally agree! What I hate is people who walk slow at Coles or Safeway. Geeeez I don’t have all day to do grocery shopping, walk a little fast and don’t block the aisle, will you?
And I feeeel ya on the whole Asian-slow-walking thing. Asians walk slow in Asia and I’m like UGH walk faster, pleeeez. But not all of Asia, hong kong and japan and singapore have fast-walking people, thankfully.
LOL xx

Courts says:

January 28, 2008 at 10:21pm

Yes, I agree with you about Hong Kong and Singapore, Sheryl. And yeah, I live in a town in Western AUstralia and people here walk slow too and don’t pay any attention to the road rules, but let’s push that rant aside.

And Perth, ohmigawd! How slow do people walk there?? I’m not going to go into that though. xD

Faith says:

January 29, 2008 at 5:45pm

What you need is some Tokyo – that’ll satisify a fast-walking Asian sweet tooth, lol.

Caitlin says:

January 30, 2008 at 4:55am

At least they’re only walking. Everyone here in New York thinks people drive too slow (which is silly because everyone drive way too fast, haha) and that can cause road rage and problems. I know it’s frustrating, though.

Amy says:

January 30, 2008 at 1:05pm

Yeah… I know how you feel. At my university people walk so slow. Groups of four people will be taking up the entire sidewalk for slow-walking social time. It is really irritating when you have somewhere to go.

Christina says:

January 30, 2008 at 4:15pm

I live in New York City. You should see the Asians in Times Square. Sometimes, they make me want to run in front of a speeding bus.

Henriet says:

January 31, 2008 at 10:32pm

I hope you don’t mind but i giggled a little when reading your post!

I see what your talking about, in amsterdam people also walk frustrating slow!

I missed my buss a few times because of that and because people are so rude that they won’t even let you pass when you are in a hurry!

Candy says:

February 2, 2008 at 8:44am

hahaha! i can sympathize with you on that one. Especially when you’re going up or down a flight of stairs and people are walking slow in front of you. I’m just like “GOD DAMMIT! MOVE YOUR ASS!” lol