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Hey, wait, wait, listeners. It's your judge and scorekeeper Bill Curtis. We have another episode

of How to Do Everything, hosted by Wait Wait, producers Mike Danforth and Ian Schillag. This week,

Mike and Ian, help a listener who wants to stop scaring people while she's going on runs. So they call

an Olympian runner.

She'll know what to do.

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and enjoy the latest episode of how to do everything.

Hey, Sam, what can we help you with?

So I'm calling about a question that I've been plagued with for many years now.

I've been a runner since my teenage years, and regardless of where I run, I run into this

similar issue of if I'm coming behind someone who's either walking or running more slowly than I am, I get a little bit nervous about passing them without scaring them.

And sometimes I'll stop my feet really loudly or try to clear my throat a little bit to see if they can hear me.

But I don't see at least half the time they don't.

And then when I pass them, they act a little bit upset as if it were my fault.

I don't like that.

Is there a time you remember startling somebody that stands out in your memory?

There was a time that I was running on a trail, which I feel like on a trail you should be especially aware of your surrounding.

And I did a lot of throat clearing and trying to make some noise and ended up going around

this person and just got a little, they kind of jumped and then acted as if they were very,

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