Have you ever been walking in the hallway in a rush to reach the next class, but then you are abruptly slowed down by a group of friends talking, literally creating an inescapable human wall? Everyone in this room has felt this pain either when trying to reach your class because you don’t want to be late or when leaving for lunch so you can talk to your friends. But guess what? You can’t do any of that because you are stuck behind an immovable wall. You can’t interrupt them talking either because you are a polite person. It is especially challenging for differently abled people who are just trying to reach their destination.
Now you must keep walking in the hallway at a timely speed; don’t randomly stop and start gasping because your friend just told you something so interesting about a pair of shoes you bought last Friday. People are behind you waiting to get past you, not trying to camp out behind you for 3 to 5 business days. I was coming to class today in a hurry because I was about to be late, but the universe was not in my favour, and I got stuck behind a human wall. Now they would walk, then stop walking and start. I was stuck there doing a waltz. Just keep on moving or move to the side.
If you are going to walk slowly, barely moving an inch a year, have at least some space where a person can walk through because we don’t want to stand there and listen to your conversation that seems to never have an end. Now I am a polite person; if you are talking on the side, I don’t care, but as soon as you make a wall in front of me and start babbling, well, then I am joining in just so you feel awkward. “Oh really, they didn’t wait for you, hmm, maybe because you were walking so slowly that they started to literally grow moss like a stone statue.”
What truly makes me mad is when they also do this with differently abled people, who require special equipment to navigate the school. There is only one elevator in this school. This elevator is very important to those people, so imagine a differently abled person is trying to get to their class, which is on the second floor, but they can’t because there is a group of people talking and blocking the halfway point, which has that important elevator.
All I am trying to say is that if you’re in the hallway and people are behind, then you should be walking at an appropriate pace, not just standing there and gossiping, because either some people are late to class or need to use something that is vital to their education and not to listen to you talk about your new shoes.
THE NORTH STAR 