Nia_Nia

Hi,

I am new to this site I have been extremely homesick lately and just wanted somewhere to rant.

My biggest peeve about America so far has been the fact that you can't walk anywhere! They don't even put any pavements down to give you the option! Its absolutely ridiculous, if you ATTEMPT to walk along the road you get people shouting things at you out of their car windows and beeping their horns.

I never learned to drive when I was back home because I just never needed to, I could get around perfectly well just by walking or using public transport, as I was at university then anyway. I will NEVER complain about the british public transport system ever again.
And we wonder why America is the Fat Nation?

fatbrit

Drive to the gym, walk on the walker, drive home. Everybody's happy!

Nia_Nia

I know, I find that absolutely hysterical. Even funnier is when people go to walmart and get their shopping and then decide they want to go to bed bath and beyond next door, instead of taking the thirty second walk to the shop, they will get back in their cars and DRIVE to it!

Lazy gits!

gruffbrown

Oh don't even go down that road (so to speak), a pet peev with my wife that one and she'll drive round a parking lot for 5 minutes to get a spot within 20 feet of the door

Manc

mine too.

Bob

You'll have to learn to drive, but it's easy enough as a complete melon could pass a test....but I know what you mean...they only finally put some pavement down in parts of town around here, centre of town was sorted...but anyway, yeah, public transport is a bit of a mess.

Bob

my missus doesn't have a drivers license, so I park where I want...and walk if I want to

anotherlimey

I hate that!!!

I've seen people wait 30 minutes for a parking space close to the door when they could have walked from a parking space in less than a few minutes.

Pimpbot

I've started doing that, but here in AZ you do it to find shade. Plus you cannot park anywhere near the bloody doors due to the 20 handicap spaces they mark off.

Celsius

How are you dressed when you go walking? Mini skirt (regardless of gender)? Bare midriff?

Yosser

I just tell the missus to stick her gut out, that way she looks pregnant then we park in the "new and expectant mums" car space outside the mall.

Celsius

You're probably not helping her carry her shopping so that's why she wants to park closer...

Nia_Nia

Alas no, but I never actually catch what they're saying so maybe its not as derrogatory as I thought...

I'd like to think so anyway..

Seriously though what it is with Americans and walking? Its not exactly difficult or a torturous pastime is it?
My old life living five minutes away from Snowdonia national park obviously spoiled me!

Celsius

Have you been trying to walk down the Strip in Pittsburgh?

Nia_Nia

No I haven't! We're not actually in Pittsburgh itself, we are in Moon Township in the burbs...

Oh I long for the days when Snowdon was my view out of the window. Now I have to make do with Taco Bell, lucky lucky me.