"Don't dawdle!" one character ordered another in a British mystery television show with actress Diana Rigg in leading role (It went down from there and I didn't watch to the end.) Which brought to mind the Walk. No, not the sixties dance craze, or would be dance craze among 1,000 other wannabe dance crazes. No, the Walk, as in the way people walk.
I can tell foreigners straight off the boat, as the saying goes, by the way they walk. I too am recognized as a stranger in strange lands by the way I walk (and I have proofs of that!) But, fully aware of this handicap, after a few weeks there, and some excrutiating effort, I begin to blend. Isn't it our life's purpose, after all, to blend into the background?!
One of the interesting effects of competitive long distance running, which requires high mileage training, is the way it affects one's walk. Having experienced it myself and seen all kinds of amateur long distance runners, I can tell you that many of them walk as if they were in some way crippled, while at the same time they run with the grace of well trained athletes. I suppose that may be because their bodies become more used to running than walking. Go figure!
Each corporate environment I have been in has its way of walking the office corridors. This is an unwritten rule in the corporate world. In one corporation, in an old, traditional industry, the rule was to walk stiffly and fast, as if one were in a hurry to return to one's desk and PRODUCE again. At another corporation, more modern, more hip, and more relaxed, the rule was to walk slowly and at an easy pace, to demonstrate coolness, availability.
One of my co-workers, who is a devil of a competitor at the gym, whether he's running a treadmill or riding a spin bike, is the slowest walker on the corporate floor I've ever seen.
We all remember the Ministry of Funny Walks in the sometimes (OK, often) funny British television show Monty Python.
One of the pieces of advice given to employment candidates is to fake a confident walk when arriving at an interview. It's a good piece of advice, but I must say, though I am quite an expert at it myself, it's never worked for me. Well, the way I walk is just the way I walk, so touch me baby...
The way I walk is just the way I walkSo hiccupped Lux Interior, the lead vocalist of the fabulous Cramps, to the biting strains of electric guitar played by his wife Poison Ivy.
The way I talk is just the way i talk
The way I smile is just the way I smile
Touch me baby, and I'll go home wild!
I can tell foreigners straight off the boat, as the saying goes, by the way they walk. I too am recognized as a stranger in strange lands by the way I walk (and I have proofs of that!) But, fully aware of this handicap, after a few weeks there, and some excrutiating effort, I begin to blend. Isn't it our life's purpose, after all, to blend into the background?!
One of the interesting effects of competitive long distance running, which requires high mileage training, is the way it affects one's walk. Having experienced it myself and seen all kinds of amateur long distance runners, I can tell you that many of them walk as if they were in some way crippled, while at the same time they run with the grace of well trained athletes. I suppose that may be because their bodies become more used to running than walking. Go figure!
Each corporate environment I have been in has its way of walking the office corridors. This is an unwritten rule in the corporate world. In one corporation, in an old, traditional industry, the rule was to walk stiffly and fast, as if one were in a hurry to return to one's desk and PRODUCE again. At another corporation, more modern, more hip, and more relaxed, the rule was to walk slowly and at an easy pace, to demonstrate coolness, availability.
One of my co-workers, who is a devil of a competitor at the gym, whether he's running a treadmill or riding a spin bike, is the slowest walker on the corporate floor I've ever seen.
We all remember the Ministry of Funny Walks in the sometimes (OK, often) funny British television show Monty Python.
One of the pieces of advice given to employment candidates is to fake a confident walk when arriving at an interview. It's a good piece of advice, but I must say, though I am quite an expert at it myself, it's never worked for me. Well, the way I walk is just the way I walk, so touch me baby...
