If these people are our future, God help us! (Part 3)

Yesterday, after studying from 9 to 2.30, I decided to walk around the park and back through the graveyard, just to get a bit of fresh air and stretch my legs.

Unfortunately, right at the end of the park, I have to leave the road that runs alongside it to cross the park, so I have to enter it. There is a motorway that runs alongside the short end and you can't walk there. 

As I was crossing the short end of the park, a group of people in their late 20s and early 30s came towards me. Five people in a row - taking up the entire width of the pathway. 

I thought, "Well, I'm 15 to 20 metres away and it's 3 p.m. They must be able to see me." They didn't look stupid. Nicely dressed and no bad behaviour (e.g. pushing, shoving, jeering).

As I walked closer towards them, I went right to the edge of the path - without actually walking on the grass. I thought, "Dammit, I have a right to walk on the pathway and not divert onto the grass."

Do you think they got out of my way? No. When they passed me, the shoulder of the man nearest me bumped into me.

I turned round and asked why they couldn't get out of my way? Did they think that if one of them walked behind another they were a 'loser'? "Oh, oh, I am behind someone... I must be a lesser person?" 

Oh, it's a shame I get so het up (or worked up) about things like this that all the words jam in my mouth. (This is why I prefer to write my arguments down rather than speak.)

The man aske me why I was getting so worked up? I said that it was impolite to block the pathway. And do you know what happened?: They laughed. Laughed! What is funny about being told that you are rude? 

"But it's a Sunday," the man said. What has that got to do with anything? Does the pandemic pause on a Sunday so you don't have to keep your distance from people? Do you not have to think of other people on Sunday? Is it okay to bump into people and not even say sorry on a Sunday?

What logic goes through people's heads?

Imagine car drivers - four cars side by side driving down a road that is meant to be used in both directions. And no-one gets out of the way for a car coming in the opposite direction.

If people like they were - seemingly educated - can be so stupid and unthinking towards others... God help us. It's no wonder the pandemic is raging.