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Most nights at about 11 or so I go out for a walk, sometimes cos I want to listen to something and my discman is the best way for me, or cos I want a cigarette, or cos I just want to get out of the house, or all 3. Anyway my parents are usually in bed but when I say I'm going for a walk they always seem incredulous, "a walk? what? at this hour?" etc. Is there anything weird about it? It's not as though I'm stalking around listening to Front 242 or something.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

No, Ronan, its amazing. Its especially nice when the air's stilled and crisp.

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes I agree.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

For parents, 11 pm probably seems very late. To anyone else, probably not.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe, but then if I said I'm going to the pub they'd be fine with it, and I'd be walking a similar distance.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic time for a walk, Ronan.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Walking is great at any time.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

You think walking's good, try hopping. The best legal high I can tell you.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I always go out for a walk w/ my Discman around 11. It's my favorite way to listen to music. I wish I could go out even later, but it gets pretty cold here late at night, and that's when the psycho-killer mentalists come out.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe your parents think you fight crime by night?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe I DO STEVE!

It is a great way of listening to music, and since I drive to college the walk is all the more necessary.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

walking is very good. i like it lots

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

do you fight crime too?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

together they are The Rockist Avengers

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"You do not feel the vibe, callow thief -- and for that YOU SHALL PAY!"

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Walking after dark with a walkman on? B-b-but you won't be able to hear the Witches, Monsters and Things sneaking up behind you.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I did an awful lot of this at university - sometime midnight singing intot he wilderness too. You grow out of it.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

You grow out of it.

"Wherrrres the plAAAAYground...soooooozie...."

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd sing except there's no lyrics, I danced once but since I'm using a really old crap discman I reckon that's no longer possible.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

There's always the "keep discman as still as possible" dance, close kin to the "keep very full pint from spilling" dance.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, and the "keep discman as still as possible" run for the bus is another fave. i might just buy a new good one.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I did an awful lot of this at university

Sneaking up on people?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"oh a bus - have to run! but wait i cannot afford to miss 0.002476 seconds of vibe!! OH NO!"

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

mark you'd be amazed, I often just don't bother and wait the extra 20 minutes or so.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

that's commitment

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes when I see the smile on my little face, it's all worth it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

You carry a mirror around with you?

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

No the bus windows are reflective.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah i frequently go for a walk at about two or three in the morning,either to listen to a cd,or stall for a joint,or just walk around
and it does seem to be considered fairly wierd
there's loads of places that are nice to walk around near my house though

― robin (robin), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Does nobody care about witches?

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 February 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I never run for a bus. Its a rule. Life is too long to run for a bus.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 28 February 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

i always end up running for buses,its raspy

― robin (robin), Friday, 28 February 2003 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, when you think about it walking is fairly weird. It's very rhythmic, and complicated with many joints moving at once. Yet there is a simple flow maintaining an upright stature. The appearance of someone walking is an ordinary and universal sight to see, but it is weird.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 28 February 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in suburbia where walking the streets is against municipal ordinances and may land you in a mental institution *sigh*

― oops (Oops), Friday, 28 February 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah? seriously?

I hear that in Switzerland if you go for a walk in the evening the cops will ask you what you think you're doing. Apparently they won't bother you if you are visibly walking a dog.

I like walking. It is my primary mode of transport.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 28 February 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

as long as you do not live in los angeles you are ok

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 28 February 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

AHEM.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 February 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

no, just kidding, but everytime I see an adult walking down a road in the suburbs that isn't a sidestreet, I ask myself "what's their deal?" The suburban landscape mocks the very idea of a pedestrian (read "Geography of Nowhere", it's pretty interesting)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 28 February 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

as much as i hate ppl who get all downward-spiral abt life in s.afica,(and sometimes i feel bad when i start doing that here), i really can't go walking alone after dark (esp. with a discman) and feel safe. when i do get the chance tho, yes, it's wunnerful.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 28 February 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Walking home from the station at night is nice, it's pretty empty round here at night.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 28 February 2003 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

walking massages all the organs in yr trunk in the way they were meant to be massaged. i don't just mean by this that it's good for digestion, either.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Sunday, 2 March 2003 02:57 (twenty-three years ago)

my osteopath said do it as much as possible.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Sunday, 2 March 2003 02:58 (twenty-three years ago)

i go for a walk every night too. and it can be weird, but maybe that's just my area. the other night i came across an old man holding a massive radio at full volume and shuffling around the streets, it was playing 'shake a tail feather' - it is the most sinister i've ever heard that song sound! later i heard fleetwood mac's 'in dreams' in several different places, i presume because he was at an intersection of about 5 different roads it was echoing in every direction.

― minna (minna), Sunday, 2 March 2003 03:57 (twenty-three years ago)

That's a great anecdote Minna! I wanna be that guy when I grow up.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 2 March 2003 05:20 (twenty-three years ago)

argh i need need NEED a discman

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 3 March 2003 04:07 (twenty-three years ago)

walking rocks.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 3 March 2003 04:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I do the exact same thing, though usually to warm up my feet which have unusually poor circulation. Often now I go without music, because my mp3 player simply uses too much battery power, and I go only for 20 minutes at a time.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 3 March 2003 04:47 (twenty-three years ago)

rocks even more with a dog

― ducklingmonster (ducklingmonster), Monday, 3 March 2003 04:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops knows of what he speaks. To amble down certain streets in postwar suburbs is to invite odd stares and (if you're the right color) perhaps some attention from the cops. I know that the only people who wander past my mother's home are dogwalkers, kids coming home from school, and a mentally retarded man who apparently lives somewhere nearby and spends most of the afternoon walking up and down two particular blocks.

When I see an urban landscape barren of people (New Haven at night, for example) it's eerie and a bit disturbing, but a suburban landscape vacant of pedestrians is par for the course, if a bit sad.

I love being in the country or in a rural community because when you spot someone wandering down the same street or path it's an event, but a pleasant one. You might even stop and chat.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 3 March 2003 05:33 (twenty-three years ago)

when my family first moved to the chicago burbs (i was a teenager) i would take my dog out on long walks at odd hours of night/morning. i missed the winding new england roads, and wanted to try to get lost in the generic grid of suburbia, just to make things more interesting (though i never succeeded).

i loved the silence and still of night, the emptiness of the town--it was just me and my dog and my walkman.

i go for short walks in the nearby forest preserve now. i get odd looks if i walk on the street where i live.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 3 March 2003 05:51 (twenty-three years ago)

when emma b was back w/me in knoxpatch for thanksgiving she's like "let's go for a walk" and i do like a spit-take. one does not pedest in knox vegas. but we did anyway, and we passed by some other folx, two kids and a dad-type figure and the litle boy says "what's wrong, you broke down?"

two dogs ended up joining us for the majority of our looping winding journey down to the lake and back. it was hard not to wish that they'd follow us all the way home.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 March 2003 07:24 (twenty-three years ago)

another walking anecdote:

it was raining quite heavily, and all of a sudden the flywire door of a nearby house burst open and two large tattoed men ran out holding sponges - they ran out the gate and landed by the side of two cars, and they started scrubbing, washing their cars in the rain.

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 04:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Hahahah! Now thats what I call saving water :D

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 04:08 (twenty-three years ago)

We took the mutts for a walk earlier this evening. They both managed to slip their collars and took off, refusing to acknowledge that we were calling their names, begging that they come back, and so forth.

When we finally found them they were in a neighbor's backyard, playing a game involving jumping-up and grabbing oranges off of tree limbs, then chasing each other until one spit-out the orange. Then they went back to the tree and began again. I was mortified. And laughing. Really hard. I had to plop down on the sidewalk to keep from wetting myself.

Then a cop drove by. And stopped. And shined his spotlight on me. And the dogs came running to see him, both with oranges in their mouths. I pretended that I didn't know them, but the leash in my hands gave me away. Thank goodness Glenn showed-up (he'd been chasing Black Dog) and explained everything to the nice officer, who shook his head and drove away.

That's what I get for being nice and walking the dogs.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 05:08 (twenty-three years ago)

this year was the first year i've been smoking, so when i went home to visit my parents for christmas, i had to sneak out at night. one night i stopped at the end of my own street to finish my cigarette and when i glance over, there's a guy sitting on the porch wearing a wife-beater (this is at 2AM in december in canada) staring right at me for no apparent reason. i dropped the smoke and ran away. suburbs!

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 06:04 (twenty-three years ago)

walking isn't weird...I quite often go for a walk round one of the Oxford parks just for the sake of it...Christ Church Meadow or University Parks usually. Strnagley, I very rarely go to the park at the end of my road unless I'm cutting through it to get to the street on the other side.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I sometimes go for a late night/early morning stroll around St. Kilda (Melbourne), and have found myself wandering through Barcelona (in and around Gracia, mostly) in the early hours. It's very peaceful and relaxing.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

today: world sauntering day. go for a saunter!

― us_odd_bunny_lady (tipsy mothra), Friday, 19 June 2009 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

lol discmans!

― dog latin, Friday, 19 June 2009 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

^^^
Was going to post this.

― chap, Friday, 19 June 2009 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goU_HLz-HyA

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 19 June 2009 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

if i'd posted on this thread in '03 i'd probably have been talking about my minidisc player...

(still got it, it's pretty slick.)

― us_odd_bunny_lady (tipsy mothra), Friday, 19 June 2009 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

When we mutts took oranges a cop both with really hard collars, begging that they so forth, pretended everything this evening begging, and laughing, calling, we finally stopped, shined, explained, Thank goodness Glenn showed-up, nice officer.

Drove away his head.

From wetting myself, I plop down, spotlight, orange in their mouth, Black Dog, chasing, shook.

― bamcquern, Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:46 (sixteen years ago)

what are you doing

― both HOOSlarious and truthful (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:53 (sixteen years ago)

nothin

― bamcquern, Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:54 (sixteen years ago)

LOL hoos

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:55 (sixteen years ago)

guess he picked the right walking thread

― the nader of civilization (k3vin k.), Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

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