Heavy walkers

Big feet, or not enough sports as a kid. They never learned to flex their knees.

Sometimes it's from walking on their heels instead of their toes.

I have big feet and I am a light walker - light as air.

I'm a heavy walker.

Doesn't have anything to do with my weight, as I'm sure I walked just as heavily when I weighed 110 pounds.

Doesn't have anything to do with participating in sports (or not)....my knees flex just fine (especially after all the rolfing I've been through).

I can't speak for other heavy walkers, but believe me linkat, I'm not doing it to annoy anyone, or because I'm careless and unthinking.

In fact, when I try to walk lightly for an extended distance, like the length of the house, I can feel my body going out of alignment.

Just the way I'm built I guess, and no sense apologizing for it.

In fact, my husband and I had a serious discussion about this once. He started mentioning how heavy my walk was, how he could feel it as I walked by, etc.

When he was in the house, I would try to walk differently, ended up walking on the balls and toes, kinda like tip toeing, to keep quiet.

That's when it hit me. I was literally "walking on eggshells" "tip toeing around someone"....I realized that was wrong.

Next time he said something, I didn't argue, but explained how bad it made me feel that something about me that was natural didn't seem to be good enough. I said I wasn't going to act unnatural anymore, and was going to walk the way my body was built.

Flat feet will make a person walk heavy at times. I knew a lady, who, when getting out of the water, would leave solid wet rectangular footprints.

So it is you - you are the one annoying me.

Just go ahead and walk by me again - I will continue giving you scathing looks!

ok, but they will be to no avail.

In fact, I'll wonder what bug crawled up your ass to let something like that mess with their serenity.

I'm not flat footed either.

I am just moving through the world, not unlike a rhinoserus.

Go placidly and solidly through the noise and haste...

the noble rhinoserus.

OK then you better watch where you are walking. You go ahead and stomp -you don't know what you will stomp into!

I don't stomp.

I just let the earth bear my full weight.

I have flat feet and am heavier than I want to be but I am not a heavy walker. Maybe years and years in marching bands in which weight is concentrated on the balls of the feet had something to do with it but probably not as I don't march everywhere I go. My granddaughter with very good arches and who is skinny as a rail is a heavy walker.

I tend to go with the natural phenomenon theory and think it is just the way some people naturally are.

At least your heavy walking neighbor isn't dropping weights on the floor above you late at night, Linkat, as one of ours once did.

As you should....

I have never been light as a feather - but I am not a heavy walker either....
I remember trying out for cheerleading - my Mom said I landed like I weighed 300 lbs! HA! It's true - there was this chubby girl who tried out and she landed like a feather. I tried it - but it just didn't click at how not to land heavy - I am not a big girl - never have been really. Just land like one.

My cat lulu wasn't a heavy walker, but she sure was a heavy lander

She'd jump down from something and do this little "oof" when she hit the floor. I can still hear it. It was the cutest thing.....oof.

She landed kinda like a jellyfish would.

splat.

Yes - I know that sound.

chai2 walks across the floor exactly like a bowling ball rolls across a lake.

i suggest that the heavy walker be supplied with a pair of "hob nail" boots - it'll add some rhythm .

Well the deputy walks on hard nails an' the preacher rides a mount
But nothin' really matters much, it's doom alone that counts
An' the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn
"Come in'', she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm''.

now THAT made me snort.