Normally I avoid crowds wherever possible, but recently I attended the Detroit Auto Show and noticed some behavior I see at work a lot. A lot of people like to walk on the left side of the aisle. This seems very odd to me since we drive on the right side of the road. I would think that driving on the right would condition them to walk on the right, but for some reason about 25% don't. Did the English get it right and mankind was really meant to drive/walk on the left? Is this an attempt to express some individualism? Or are people just plain rude and don't care about traffic patterns? I don't know, but find it interesting.
On a similar note every once in a while I find somebody that really, really likes to invade my personal space. A couple of weeks ago I sat down in the cafeteria at work to eat breakfast. A minute later a person walked past dozens of tables to sit at the table right behind me. We were the only two people in the entire place and he wanted to sit next to me. Today I was walking into a building and a man was basicly on my heels so I stepped aside to force him to pass. Five minutes later he was on my heels again in a hallway that was at least 10 feet wide, so I stopped again to force him to pass. Two minutes after that he was behind me at the candy machine. Now I have no idea how he kept getting behind me since I kept forcing him to pass, all I can think of is that he kept circling around or stepping into side rooms until I went past again, but the main point is that every time he and I were in the same area he was two feet behind me when there was plenty of room and reason for him to not be right behind me. What is it with these people?
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