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Walking

DonZabuDonZabu
edited 2012-01-22 23:16:11 in General

It takes too long to get anywhere by walking. I don't blame people for not doing it much.

Comments

  • FirebertFirebert

    A light jog is much faster.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    Well this is why you hit Caps Lock

  • FirebertFirebert
    edited 2012-01-22 23:25:13

    lolwut

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    Skyrim

  • FirebertFirebert

    Pfft.

  • LegionnaireLegionnaire

    I like walking =/

  • captainbrasscaptainbrass

    If you don't drive, like me, you get to do a fair amount of it.

  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Bike everywhere, baby.

  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    But you never had any to begin with.

    "Why walk when you can ride?"

  • EvergreenEvergreen

    I generally agree with the OP, and I find it kind of silly that people regularly walk from my college campus into town. Or not that they do, but that they make it seem so easy. It's really not that close! I'd only want to give it a shot in great weather, and not at night, it's a bit sketchy...

  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.

    I cycle everywhere, and that's made getting used to walking frustratingly tedious.

  • IronweaverIronweaver
    if u do convins fashist akwaint hiz faec w pavment neway jus 2 b sur

    I like walking, mostly due to being curious and taking the time to see the stuff happening around me. After passing the same place for the 100th time it gets lame, though.

  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue

    I would probably walk more often, but I live in the suburban US and you pretty much have to drive to get anywhere useful.


    Walking around downtown can be fun when I have a digital camera with me, though I'm always paranoid I'm gonna get mugged... >_>

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    I would probably walk more often, but I live in the suburban US and you pretty much have to drive to get anywhere useful.

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    I walk for fun/exercise/because Iron Maiden makes you want to go out and exert yourself.

  • BeeBee

    Hah, you left it keybound to Capslock.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    ^ ...So?
  • BeeBee
    edited 2012-01-23 19:11:32

    Just asks for trouble after leaving or tabbing out of the game is all.  I've gotten more than a few caps'd IM's from people that way.

  • DonZabuDonZabu

    Not that it matters, but the reason I started this thread is from reading about the obesity epidemic, how one of the contributing factors is that people are driving everywhere instead of walking now. Then I got to thinking about walking itself, and then I made this thread.

  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    Walking is just more convenient where I live, and it's honestly relieving to not have to deal with all that extra stuff.
  • LouieWLouieW
    edited 2012-01-23 22:40:11
    Loser

    In addition to what Milos said about seeing the scenery, I feel like walking can be a useful way to calm down and think.


    This probably makes me sound like some old fogey, but sometimes I feel like things are just too busy these days, especially with the constant presence of cell phones, email, and such. Walking seems to me to be a good way to take a break from that kind of stuff.

  • EvergreenEvergreen

    See, what some people said about suburbia got me thinking. Well ok, not really thinking, more like "Let me say more about my life!" I realized that while it's not super-convenient, walking here in this town where I go to school is at least somewhat convenient because it's only suburban in the sense of being about 10 miles from Boston and very much in its orbit...otherwise it's an old medium-sized industrial town and therefore is pretty compact.


    It's the town where I'm from back in Connecticut where not only would it take to long to get anywhere, it's not really even safe most of the time. I don't mean because of crime; we essentially have none. I mean that, for example, my small upscale suburban neighborhood is basically just 2-3 streets on top of a mountain, only accessible from a major road going over that mountain. It's great to take walks in the neighborhood, which is very tranquil, but step outside and you're liable to get run over. It makes bike access hard too...I always feel bad for the people I see biking up the mountain. Hell of a workout.


    There's a great walking/biking path running down the entire valley region I'm from. It used to be the railway. But in many cases, you have to drive just to get to it! Or a more egregious example: A state park and state forest are on the mountain I live on. They're great for walking, but for the reasons I discussed before, the only way to get to them is by driving, unless you're a very strong cyclist.

  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    My country's flat as a pancake, has great public transport and bike lanes everywhere. Too bad our eastern neighbours stole all the bikes during WW2.

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