girl going wrong way on running track

Capt_Apollo
Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
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I sometimes run at the high school track a few blocks from my house. and there is this one girl that i see running the opposite direction!! see, on a track, you're supposed to run counterclockwise. i don't get it either. clockwise makes more sense to me, but whatever.

so this girl is just running around the track in the opposite direction. not only that, she's kinda refusing to get out of peoples way, barreling down small children and senior citizens alike. its kinda funny, because she's really not going that fast, but you should see her making a big deal about stepping around people.

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  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Is she crazy?
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    Is she crazy?

    possibly
  • pinkgumdrop123
    pinkgumdrop123 Posts: 262 Member
    i was just waiting for this lol
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    She pays dues to the track.


    Wait, nobody does.
  • _Waffle_
    _Waffle_ Posts: 13,049 Member
    Some people enjoy conflict. Perhaps this is one of those people.
  • Moonbeamlissie
    Moonbeamlissie Posts: 504 Member
    This is funny really. Maybe she is just one of those "I'm better than you so you must get out of my way people" or just possibly stupid either way I would have a hard time not just busting out laughing at her.
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    This is funny really. Maybe she is just one of those "I'm better than you so you must get out of my way people" or just possibly stupid either way I would have a hard time not just busting out laughing at her.

    i think it stems from a childhood trauma, like her parents making her color inside the lines or something.
  • JerseyGirlinTN
    JerseyGirlinTN Posts: 144 Member
    Just a thought - is she disabled in any way?

    We go to a local ice rink and there's a boy who's autistic and will ONLY go clockwise. It's fine when the rink is going clockwise, but after the zamboni resurfaces the ice and the skaters are redirected to go counterclockwise, he'll still barrel through and go clockwise. His parents have to take him off the ice and distract him until they resurface the ice and go clockwise again.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    If only she would Google track etiquette I'm sure she'd be more courteous
  • kathystrauss1
    kathystrauss1 Posts: 142 Member
    Funny!
  • jetscreaminagain
    jetscreaminagain Posts: 1,130 Member
    8 prefer counterclockwise but alternate so all those left turns don't make me imbalanced. I'm serious but also making fun of myself.
  • Madame_Goldbricker
    Madame_Goldbricker Posts: 1,625 Member
    Personally I think it's no joking matter. We should all chip in to buy her a track she doesn't have to share...
  • FearAnLoathingJ
    FearAnLoathingJ Posts: 337 Member
    The world is her track and we are just lucky to run on it
  • lilfurson
    lilfurson Posts: 190
    There should be signs that say which direction the track is on certain days so people don't always go the same way and have one leg become bigger than the other
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    I'm a little jealous that the local highschool there allows people to run on the track.
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    Just break up.
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    I'm a little jealous that the local highschool there allows people to run on the track.

    They really don't where you live?
  • MiloBloom83
    MiloBloom83 Posts: 2,724 Member
    I'm a little jealous that the local highschool there allows people to run on the track.

    Yeah. This.
  • ChristinaR720
    ChristinaR720 Posts: 1,186
    Running down the road less traveled...
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