Photo by Matthew Lehner Photography.

When it comes to scuffles between people using various modes of transportation, battles between bikes and cars, cars and pedestrians and bikes and pedestrians are common. But what about issues that tend to arise between pedestrians?

Obviously, people on foot aren’t operating machines and can only operate at such a high rate of speed, so such confrontations are usually informal and forgettable. But there are definitely gripes to be had. Take, for example, Being Miss Bennet’s list of complaints. Certainly, the Miss makes some good points — groups who tend to go six-wide and cyclists who use sidewalks when there are bike lanes available are annoyances which certainly resonate with this editor — but one suggestion stood out:

1) Walk on the RIGHT side of the sidewalk. Don’t make me do that awkward, side-to-side “which way should I go” dance. I know which way I should go. I should stay on my right and you should go to yours. And you better not do the “I’m not going anywhere, you have to move for me” routine because you will have to jump over my head or go between my legs before I switch over to the left side of the sidewalk for you.

I’m privy to the walking dance described here nearly every time I leave my home, and it’s the definition of awkward. There’s almost a crushing inevitability in it. Do you move? Will they move? Are we really going to do that thing where we both make movements in one direction, then the next, then back again before we uncomfortably laugh it off in an effort to downplay our collective idiocy? Obviously, it’s quite the ordeal.

Then again, enforcing any kind of escalator-esque etiquette sounds like it would be a far more painful ordeal — especially in tourist-heavy sections of the District where walking is the only viable method of getting to a destination. So we want to know — have you ever applied escalefter shaming to similar infractions on the sidewalk? Did it take? Let us know in the comments.