In that situation, I like to just stop. Don't keep walking, don't move over, just stop and see what their next move is.

Of course, I try to avoid walking at all costs.

Walking is for suckers.

I have always noticed this phenomenon especially the hallways of buildings as early as high school. It wasnt until I got older, I began employing the above 'stop' method. I have found you can typically predict which group will or wont yield to people going the other way. Stopping presents them with a choice of yielding or walking into you and it works quite well.

Just keep walking in a relaxed but hurried manner and don't make eye contact. Pretend to be looking at something over their shoulders to your right, keeping a mild grin on your face. If you've ever seen "Zippy The Pinhead" that would be perfect. It works for me every time.

Next time put on sun glasses and use a little white walking stick in a sweeping motion in front of you; kinda sway your head back and forth. :D

I'm gaining on you. Currently I'm somewhere between 205 and 210 pounds of love.

I wholeheartedly agree with the "stop" method. I think it's good for trying to train people, as opposed to just moving.

And why do some people walk on the left side of the sidewalk? This isn't England. It annoys me to be moseying along in proper form, and then I have to move to avoid a collision because Sir Chauncey of Dyslexishire is walking directly toward me on the left side of the sidewalk.

I was thinking about a similar issue just the other day, and pondering if perhaps I could be part of the problem. When I'm on a sidewalk, I'm an active navigator. I'm mentally plotting the courses of everyone near me, and developing a route in real time to pass through with no collisions. I'm constantly making slight course adjustments to account for sidewalk conditions many steps away. Therefore, I don't have much of an issue with the brain-damaged slug people who just walk slackjawed, unless I encounter them at a corner or other location where my radar can't lock them in and do a Doppler on their courses.

The problem occurs when I encounter another person like me. Since we're both plotting courses, we each plot a course to avoid the other one, which not infrequently then puts us on a collision course. Since we both adjust, we then end up in a situation where we both move left, then both right, etc., until we have to formally make a decision on who's going which direction. Therefore, this is one of those rare instances where good planners are more of a problem than bad planners.

Built like a fresh PEAR.

You should see my stem.

I'd avoid taking any advice from the guy who walks down the side walk so poorly that people have to throw chicken noodle soup at him...

No, YOU should be able to see your stem.

ROFL

Stop and ask them which part of the sidewalk they's like.
Then jam them face first into that side.

I'm convinced that the problem is that the side walk is too narrow. :p

Sounds as though you've been partaking of Nasiums Brew a little too often.

I am 6'3", so I'm not "pear like"........yet. Jenny hasn't complained.......yet.