MikefromTX Member Joined: Nov 2008  TX, USA Posts: 1439 Feedback: 100% (3)

Posted: 8/9/2012 12:18:03 PM THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT After a lifetime of driving, I just naturally walk on the right side of sidewalks, in malls, etc. But I routinely run into people (literally, sometimes) blindly walking on their left side. Okay, so I'm anal, but don't you just instinctively keep to the right when you're in a flow of people? I mean, isn't that just ingrained into your head so much that it's a natural tendency? No, this isn't a huge issue and it's not life-changing, but it does annoy me a little and it makes me curious. Anyone else, or is it just me?

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proto_moose Magnets and Thermos's--How do they work?!? Team Member Joined: Jul 2010  IN, USA Posts: 1944 Feedback: 100% (1) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 12:19:56 PM In before some Brit starts complaining about people not walking on the left. I'm with OP BTW. Keep to the right.
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dskeet Member Team Member Joined: Sep 2002  VA, USA Posts: 7874 Feedback: 100% (27) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 12:20:59 PM I walk on the side with the most room.
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TexasOutdoorsman Member Joined: May 2012  TX, USA Posts: 135 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 12:22:12 PM Originally Posted By dskeet: I walk on the side with the most room. this......my walking is not constrained by flows, or lines...... walk free or die!
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Posted: 8/9/2012 12:22:17 PM Originally Posted By proto_moose: In before some Brit starts complaining about people not walking on the left. I'm with OP BTW. Keep to the right. Agreed, however some places fuck with this basic concept. Like Walmart, their separate entrances/exits are based on the exit being closest to the cash registers. That makes sense and is blatantly posted, but obviously fucks with people that naturally keep to the right.

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J75player Peace through superior shot placment Team Member Joined: Dec 2005  MN, USA Posts: 3511 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 12:24:12 PM [Last Edit: 8/9/2012 12:24:54 PM by J75player] i walk right down the middle. and you best get out of my way
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bob200587 Member Joined: Jun 2008  TN, USA Posts: 3425 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 12:44:36 PM Yes.
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Posted: 8/9/2012 12:46:39 PM Originally Posted By MikefromTX: After a lifetime of driving, I just naturally walk on the right side of sidewalks, in malls, etc. But I routinely run into people (literally, sometimes) blindly walking on their left side. Okay, so I'm anal, but don't you just instinctively keep to the right when you're in a flow of people? I mean, isn't that just ingrained into your head so much that it's a natural tendency? No, this isn't a huge issue and it's not life-changing, but it does annoy me a little and it makes me curious. Anyone else, or is it just me? I always figured they were british tourists since most of them needed dental work...badly.

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FDC Isha'Allah Team Member Joined: May 2006  USA Posts: 13340 Feedback: 100% (55) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 12:49:27 PM Originally Posted By TexasOutdoorsman: Originally Posted By dskeet: I walk on the side with the most room. this......my walking is not constrained by flows, or lines...... walk free or die! +1 and look where you are going with that shopping cart OP.
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KingRat Sexual Tyrannosaurus Team Member Joined: Dec 2006  WI, USA Posts: 5718 Feedback: 100% (1) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 1:06:24 PM I prefer to stay to the right of the line.
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AZ_Sky Living vicariously through myself Team Member Joined: Mar 2002  AZ, USA Posts: 10758 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 1:17:05 PM I walk rather quickly. I usually end up looking like a running back threading my way down field as I zigzag my way through people....
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XMM Member Team Member Joined: Sep 2008  IA, USA Posts: 9808 Feedback: 100% (31) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 1:26:16 PM I definitely walk on the right. It fucks me up every time I go to Walmart and remember that the entrance is on the LEFT, while the EXIT is on the right. I still have no fucking idea what French fuck came up with that idea.
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toekneeg Member Team Member Joined: Jan 2010  FL, USA Posts: 779 Feedback: 95% (20) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 1:30:04 PM I'm like you, walking on the right. When I flew to Australia and was walking around, malls, airports, etc, i kept running into people
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SilentDrifterGT Member Joined: Aug 2012  WI, USA Posts: 2 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 1:34:47 PM [Last Edit: 8/9/2012 1:37:54 PM by SilentDrifterGT] I tend to walk in the middle, but if I try to get around someone. Majority of the time, I'll go to my left.
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Posted: 8/9/2012 1:38:15 PM I'm the same way, drive on right, walk on right. Constantly giving the wife shit for her left hand door exiting and running into groups coming through the door she's trying to exit (wrong god damn door again honey) It's stupid simple shit like this that really needs to be part of every day life for kids in school. Don't even get me started on the stupid fuckers that stand in front of the elevator doors when I'm getting out.

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55sixer Member Team Member Joined: Jul 2011  IL, USA Posts: 593 Feedback: 100% (1) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 2:15:01 PM If you're on the left... you ain't right I have found that if you act like you dont see someone coming they will move right out of your way, and if they dont, its hard shoulder time. Unless its a large breasted good looking woman, in which case its fake trip into a quick motorboat time, followed with a fake apology
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davisac People's Republic of New Jersey Team Member Joined: Apr 2009  NJ, USA Posts: 4756 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 2:18:01 PM Yup pet peeve of mine.
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Mass-Length-Time Member Team Member Joined: Mar 2008  MD, USA Posts: 1014 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 2:26:13 PM Originally Posted By AZ_Sky: I walk rather quickly. I usually end up looking like a running back threading my way down field as I zigzag my way through people.... Same here.
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MyName1sMud Member Team Member Joined: Feb 2012  MS, USA Posts: 1205 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 8/9/2012 4:10:32 PM Originally Posted By proto_moose: In before some Brit starts complaining about people not walking on the left. I'm with OP BTW. Keep to the right. This!
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