Why do slow walkers swerve and drift?

[M A V I C]

pdq wrote:
I'm a fairly tall man, and in addition to the aimless perambulators that MAVIC describes, us folks also have to deal with the social discomfort of inevitably catching up to shorter people, usually women.

I understand the sensation of someone approaching you from behind may be semi-alarming, but I just thought I would take this opportunity to say it's not any fun for us either. Yes, we can plod along at your pace, but then it feels like we're stalking you.

I know this situation all too well. Sometimes I go alternate routes to get out of that circumstance.

mattkime wrote:
Are you secretly a new yorker?

Maybe? I've never been, honestly.