Is the world in slow motion?

[Eileen]

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel that the world around them is moving in slow motion? When I'm walking around town, I seem to be constantly battling the crowds of people moving at a snail's pace. Everyone else seems to take ages to do ordinary things like set a table or lick a stamp. I can cross the road at any point, because it's obvious from the speed of the cars where there will be a gap in the traffic, but no-one else does this. And I won't even start on how long it takes people to move from one station to the next at the gym....

[Revmachine21]

It's not you... feel the same way.

[SumthinOrNuthin]

Eileen, you're on turbo ;)

Funnily enough there was some stuff in the news this week about how we're all supposed to be speeding up http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6614637.stm

Worst places I find are shopping centres. People seem to go at a snails pace in there. I have to just conform otherwise I end up getting angry and wanting to barge people out of the way :rolleyes:

I had one of those gym exoeriences this week where I was beginning to seethe and had to stop myself saying something I'd regret to 2 guys using the only lying leg curl in the place. Long story but, phone calls, text messages, chatting to each other all interspersed with working one leg at a time, very slowly. GRRRRRR :mad: !!

[Eileen]

I wouldn't mind, but in the gym, I usually do slow negatives, so it's not as if I'm flying recklessly though my sets.

I sometimes treat shopping centres as a sort of agility exercise, seeing how fast I can walk while dodging all the dawdlers.

[TurbulentFluid]

Funny... I have a feeling everything around me is hurling at an amazing pace... When I'm finally done with all my chores, it's bedtime and beyond and I STILL have to work and study at night, but I get up for work (job work) at 6:30... The obligations just seem to pile up... I can hardly get the time to squeeze my w/os in and thank heavens for the dog (whom I simply have to run with) or my cardio wouldn't be existant... geez...

But true about the traffic; as I'm rushing to get all my stuff done someone's ALWAYS in the way...

[Giggy]

I sometimes treat shopping centres as a sort of agility exercise, seeing how fast I can walk while dodging all the dawdlers.


I do that to. I zip through the mall at unGodly speeds. Usually when I'm returning things I like to see how fast I can get in and get out. I don't know anyone that can keep up with me.

When I was little my dad walked very fast everywhere we went, so I guess it's his fault :)

Barb

[darkangel]

I have an employee like that. Coworkers are always telling me he's "wandering the halls." When I reprimand him, he gets upset and denies it. Finally, I figured it's because whenever he's going to the restroom or to someone else's office, he appears to be strolling along with no real destination in mind, while the rest of us are scurrying about. Although his reason for leaving his office is legitimate, it appears he's just wasting time. It's extremely frustrating to us Type As. LOL

[Jamie M]

Sotres are the worst! I could move faster than those people when I was hobbling around on one leg after my injury!

[katyloyal]

I'd have to agree as well. And it's not just that people are slow, but very DUMB. I can't stand the people at the grocery store that are so indecisive about which line to take, then keep going back to grab one more item, then arguing about why their coupons aren't working. Not to mention the people at department stores trying to return items. UGH!! Just donate your crap to Goodwill and let the rest of us in line buy our items and get out!

[claycat]

I can do a ton of stuff at once and find it very frustrating that others can't do but one thing at a time.

I and my other co-workers once took a new medication for calming/antianxiety that a drug rep gave out. I can't remember why he had us try it (I worked in the medical field) anyway it was horrible I could only do one thing at a time and I felt like I was moving in slow motion. If that is how most people function on a daily basis I don't see how they get anything done. But, I do understand some people better now.

So, I see where you are coming from.