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So how do you walk? Giant Steps or do you walk like a Geisha with her kimono wrapper around her ankles?

― helen fordsdale, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like watching people walk when they are listening to music (on their discman/walkman). They usually step to the beat of the music.

― helen fordsdale, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i do hope they're not listening to autechre on that walkman

― gareth, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there was a doc on BBC2 on friday abt ppl's walking patterns and how it caused the wobbly millennium bridge to be more wobbly

― mark s, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i galumph widely

― anthony, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

extra long strides, which can look very funny since I am about 5'4 and usually manage to outpace people who are about 6 ft. It looks a bit like I am doing the splits or something. At least no-one messes with me though because I always look like I am on a mission

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I too am short yet people always moan at me for walking too fast. Not sure if its a big stride thing though.

― Pete, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I imagine a silver thread suspending my back upright and my chin up. I pace briskly with straight legs, and swing my arms approximately 30 degrees, alternately, in time to my strides.

― WIll, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Pete has developed his scuttling pace as he fears being caught. This morning I was wondering whether my boss would buy the excuse that I was late cos it took me longer to walk to the tube when the pavement is slippery as I have to take littler steps but decided against it. My walking pace depends entirely on the footwear / skirt / trouser combo I have on i.e jeans & trainers = sprint (sort of) whereas pencil skirt + heels = precipitous teetering.

― Emma, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can sympathise with Pete, because I am also short yet get criticised for walking too fast. My gait has varied a lot over time. I can't actually help this. Ask my chiropodist. In one of my previous jobs, I was nicknamed Tigger, for it was said that I had a bouncy walk.

― MarkH, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I walk at great speed...I like to beat everyone in sight. 1 mile = 15 mins. Economy of arm movement.

― james, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was just told I have a confident walk. I know I walk fast.

― Sean, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely our walk is unconscious. I discovered this the other day when I had to walk on camera, and I realised I couldn't walk 'normally'

― K-reg, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I WALK AS IF IN POWER MOMENT. I USED TO BE A SHERRIF. HOW ARE YOU DOIN!?!

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to walk very fast. I then married the Slowest Walker In The World. I now move at a smooth mosey.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm freakishly short and I like to scuttle as fast as possible. I always believe that if I'm not walking so fast my legs hurt then I'm wasting time. I don't know if I actually walk faster than normal people as I tend to walk everywhere on my own, but I do seem to overtake people a lot, my parents always accuse me of attracting hostile attention to myself by looking so nervous and walking abnormally fast, and when I do walk with other people I often find that they're going slower than I'd like.

On the other hand I always wait nervously before crossing any road while they stride across and look annoyed at the other side, and my ex (over a foot taller than me) did walk faster than I did. At least, I think he did; I always ended up walking a couple of feet behind him, anyway, but I'm easily dislodged when trying to walk beside people, partly because of having different ideas of sensible personal space radius to the rest of the world and partly because I'll interpret the slightest thing as being a sign that they don't want me walking next to them. I am a neurotic freak.

Oh, I like the small square paving slabs that cover much of Oxford centre because once I've got up to speed they're the same length as my paces. I have no idea how this compares to other people, though. Anyone?

― Rebecca, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i meander. oh so slowly.

and i've been called a hip swisher.

i also make frequent stops. to look at things, and poke them.

― nancy b., Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I walk probably a bit slowly and a bit confusedly. I am not really allowed to cross roads alone yet. However, I swim like a (fairly) fast, focused, irascible demon, a swimming analogue of how I like to imagine Suzy, Katie, Ally and other prominent ILErs impatiently charging through tube stations and busy streets, ie mentally chanting Get Out of My Way.

Rebecca: I also have "different ideas of sensible personal space radius to the rest of the world". I call it my aura and it is Huge.

― Ellie, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I walk as if I know where I am going.

― rainy, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I swagger.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I either walk to the beat of music or run if I'm going a fairly short distance. I can do this in pants or skirts and sneakers or high- heeled boots, but not mary janes.

― Maria, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was told at work last week that I "switch" my ass when I walk. So it's a bouncy switchy thing, my walk.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tracer Hand, you sound 'sassy'.

― Nancy Drew, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was kind of mortified when I heard that. I mean god, I don't TRY and come off like a runway model I just DO sometimes... (sigh)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm a slow walkin' type of girl if I am wearing high heels though I walk with shorter steps.

― Gale Deslongchamps, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Walking to work in Manhattan I tend to morph into my head down "get the hell outta my way" walk. Otherwise I just bumble along. Often I start trying to read something while walking and run into people, trees, etc.

― bnw, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My style of wanking changes with each step. Oh shit - I've just read your title. Fuck - forget what I said.

― Kodanshi, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In a previous job I was told that I sayshayed across the office like a male model, which I find implausible. I'm not sure how I walk, though it is often commented on, amusedly. I have noticed that when I'm walking along the pavement, people coming in the opposite direction seem unsure which way I'm going, and this leads to much street slapstick as we a) bump into each other or b) perform a little dance routine of going first one way then the next, several times.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i used to skip along like a girl quite often. guess i got old. i run up and down stairs. running up and down stairs = U&K except when it's icy, natch

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I tend to gambol. Also, I bound up stairs three or four at a time, like a mountain goat.

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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