Tales from the obese city 5: You're blocking the entire path I live in a city with a particularly severe obesity problem. Because obesity is so normalized, walking a block to get to a store is seen as something you would only do if you were too poor to afford a car to drive that block. I commute via bicycle because I live 2.5 miles from where I work. I have encounter people (of typical size for my size) complaining about how I'm lazy because I won't work to get a job that would let me afford a car. I actually have a car, I just don't use it for short trips. However, this is about a different kind of wheeled vehicle. The way I get to work goes along the cities main bike/pedestrian path. Now, this path, while not the best, is still pretty good. Everywhere along the stretch I take you can comfortably fit three bikes into the width of the path, and in some places you can fit 4 if you squeeze in a bit. But today on my way to work, I saw someone in a most unusual looking wheeled vehicle with a larger than usual occupant. I could not find a way past them without going dangerously close to the edge of the (elevated) path. I try ringing my bell a few times, but I don't get a response. He was also going so horribly slowly that I could barely stay on my bike. I did manage to get in on time, and then, when I'm coming home, I notice a very familiar wheeled vehicle. This was on one of the wider parts of the trail, and it was closer to one of the sides, so I though I could pass this vehicle if I was in the center. The driver then looks back, sees me, and maneuvers right into my path. I manage to stop in time and he yells something at me (I heard things sounding like flowers, but that makes no sense). He then keeps on going, slowly, though I turn off the path soon after to find a less blocked route home. I still do not understand how someone could possibly get to be that big, or why there even are devices that are literally substitutes for walking for people who can walk. Or why they would be such a massive dick as to deliberately get in my way.