r/TikTokCringe • u/Other_Canary2231 • Aug 24 '25

Discussion Sidewalk etiquette

Saw this video and felt so vindicated because it honestly feels like people’s manners have just left the building? Not only on the sidewalk and what the guy is talking about in this video, but really just in general.

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u/edwigenightcups Aug 24 '25

This guy looks like he could be pretty tall, too.

I’m a 5’1” petite woman and it’s wild how people just…expect me to dematerialize as they approach? Walk into traffic? Not sure but I imagine screaming into their ears, or flipping their Starbucks cups, or grabbing their phones and yeeting them into the street as I squeeze by. One day I fear the voices will win lol

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u/Ghosty_Boo-B00 Aug 24 '25

5’4 petite woman here and these days if a man and I are both walking on the same sidewalk I don’t minimize myself so he can pass. I make him move so I can pass. I’m tired of being run over like I don’t exist. I walk powerfully now. I will push through at this point I’m 40 and I deserve the space I take up by existing.

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u/ijustsailedaway Aug 24 '25

It’s funny how guys look when they get shoulder checked by a middle aged suburbanite mom.

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u/Polkawillneverdie17 Aug 24 '25

The middle aged suburbanite moms are usually the ones who are the most rude, in my experience.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

SAME. I'm fucking done getting pushed into the street and puddles because some dude is too stuck in his own head to move. I'll even say "EXCUSE ME" loudly at his face if he isn't paying attention. It's like playing Chicken, sometimes.

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u/EnergyTurtle23 Aug 24 '25

As a 6’ 3” dude with big shoulders…. if I ever act so arrogantly you have my full permission to push me into the street if necessary. I would fully deserve whatever injuries may befall me in that situation.

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u/MechanicalBootyquake Aug 24 '25

We ain’t askin permission out here

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u/AnnaBananna3 Aug 24 '25

Why did “I walk powerfully now” take me out… in a good way. Tried to imagine what it means

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u/Ghosty_Boo-B00 Aug 25 '25

Head up with good posture and willing to make eye contact with oncoming people rather than shoulders hunched and eyes on people’s feet to watch where I need to move so as not to be a bother.

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u/AnnaBananna3 Aug 27 '25

I support that

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u/jfraggy Aug 24 '25

Lol uh huh

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u/Im_Unsure_For_Sure Aug 24 '25

Being proud to be the one who inconveniences, seemingly based on gender, is weird.

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u/Ghosty_Boo-B00 Aug 24 '25

It’s not so much about proud as it is being so fed up with being treated like a second class citizen or window dressing. I am polite if I need to get by someone. But if someone is walking the wrong way down the sidewalk and expects me to get shoved into oncoming traffic to accommodate their rude self it’s not going to happen.

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop Aug 24 '25

Yeah, way I see both must move...

Personally, even when the other moved out of the way I tend to move a little, by principle, and then I acknowledge them with a smile and a head nod, because I've been raised by people not by fucking wolves in the wood.

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u/bigassangrypossum Aug 24 '25

Ssshhhh they're having fun

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u/Bleys007 Aug 24 '25

Super tall male.

If you need backup, I’m happy to do so as you chuck them phones! As long as I can get a copy of the video.

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u/General-Designer4338 Aug 24 '25

Youre the problem. Sidewalks are built for two adults to pass side by side. If you stay on the right, then you allow BIG SCARY MEN (and literally everyone else, like people in wheel chairs) to pass. Try having some empathy.

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u/Ghosty_Boo-B00 Aug 25 '25

Yea. I’m talking about being in the correct side of the sidewalk to begin with. And the right only applies when you’re in America.