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To: NohSpinZone

Liberals.....

Walking on sidewalk - danger, danger!

Knife fights....good old fashioned fun!


2 posted on 05/11/2021 11:39:48 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: blueunicorn6
This is my benchmark for walking down a sidewalk - Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve
19 posted on 05/11/2021 12:33:40 PM PDT by glorgau
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I had kind of a funny thing where I work. Now, when I walk around, I usually adhere to the rules of the road in the US.

I walk on the right side of a hallway and generally keep to the right. It is one of those “unwritten rules” that people seem to follow, like the elevator rule: When people get on an elevator, they almost always go to the back of the elevator, then turn around to face the door, and look up at the elevator floor indicator. It is kind of funny to observe. When I was in the Navy, I knew this guy with an eccentric sense of humor...one day when we were getting on an elevator, he said “watch this” and when he got on the elevator, he walked in and stopped with his back to the elevator door looking face to face with everyone at the back of the elevator. There were maybe four or five people on there, and they immediately exhibited signs of discomfort, averting their eyes, shuffling around...it really was funny! He was deliberately flouting an unwritten rule, and people were apparently unaware they were unconsciously responding to it.

So, I think with confidence that walking on the right in a crowded hallway in the USA is an unwritten rule that people generally follow. However, there is an older black guy who ALWAYS walks on the left side, often pushing a big wheeled bin. Always. Nobody else in hundreds of people I see seem to do it.

For years, I would just veer to my left to get out of his way and barely give it a thought, except for something like “Dang, why is that guy always walking on this side with that bin rather than the other side?” Then one time, I was watching as I walked in this crowded hallway, and nearly everyone walks on the right side of the corridor. From the distant end of the hallway, I could see him pushing the bin while he came down the hall on his left side, and as he advanced, he was making every single person veer to their left to get out of his way, and as I watched, I got the very distinct impression he was doing it deliberately.

So, next time I saw him coming, I just stopped in the hallway. Just stopped and stood there pretending not to see him as if I were preoccupied, just to see what he would do. When it was clear to him that I wasn’t going to move, he walked around me. Then, I did again next time. And again he walked around me.

Every time since then, when he sees me, he crosses to the other side or at least the middle. But with everyone else, they still get out of his way. It is clearly deliberate on his part. What an asinine thing to do.


21 posted on 05/11/2021 12:39:46 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Take a way federal funds and remove your children from these propaganda anti America mills


29 posted on 05/11/2021 3:00:55 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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