they will knock you off the sidewalk
Also afraid I may get into an argument with someone for slamming into me on the sidewalk, which they also do. I saw a couple slam into and knock an old lady almost into the street because they had to go 2 abreast 2 mornings ago. She stumbled and if she had stumbled one more step she would have fallen into the busy, busy street. They assume everyone will get out of their way, but I think many of them want to hurt a person. I know a few guys have run into me.
Last Summer, one walking beside his friends slammed into my shoulder and kept going with that smug seattle grin, even though he had slammed into my shoulder bone and taken my breath away it hurt so much. What was I going to do? I turned around and watched them striding along, knowing what they did, and what was I going to do? Start something with 3 big guys and his girl? And have them do something like blind me and pretend it was an accident? And these were middle class dressed, late 20's early 30's guys and his girl. Even if the guys didn't do anything, there are big-mouth bitches here that lay into you for nothing. Big bare-legged, fat-legged bitches. The women here have the fattest legs, and they show them off like they were pork shanks in those sausage-casing type leggings.
People downtown here at the least are the kind who are passive agressive and would have been the kind of kid who would leave the school desk, and leave an upright tack or 2 for whoever sat in it next. And it wouldn't matter who. I was running across the street the other night and cars were coming and this woman came right to the exact gap in cars where I could duck into and blocked my way, just standing there. Probably because I was jaywalking, so I was in the wrong and needed to be punished. She was a huge tank, too.