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what's the sidewalk protocol where you are? i remember once, going to see paul revere's trail with a friend of mine who was super into assassin's creed, right before the one based on that era came out. the pathways are narrow, to the point where people going opposite directions have to shuffle into single file somehow. larger groups can have some issues condensing coherently but i noticed the asian tourists would resolutely just step off the path onto the grass. i remember being split between appreciating it as a clever solution and finding it incredibly irritating because it's just so... deferential? that to my american tastes, it reads like a sort of sarcasm, almost. as if they're saying, "well i'll just let the big important man get out of the way" and eff you too. don't get the hell out of my way you jerk my nature is to think way too hard about this shit, to be haunted by an awkward moment for weeks or months afterwards, but then i've a policy and it's solved and no problem. and covid blew that up. and i'll stow the rest, but i'm really still trying to figure some peoples' behavior out so, polls, thad wanted polls? what's the sidewalk protocol like where you live? how did covid change it? how has it un/rechanged since covid has eased off? are people being weird or is it like it never happened? etc thx. |
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oh, i'll go first, and i'll try to keep it readable that 2020 everyone wearing masks outside; people so irritating i quit walking for a year, essentially. danced at home. gradual, gradual unclenching of anii since. sort of like the inverse of catching the waiter's eye at a restaurant, i find myself avoiding giving eye until within a certain range of someone, to avoid the, "are you going to move?" or "do you want me to move?" because it's right irritating, that exchange. there are these amphetamine moms jogging with strollers and they want you to get the fuck out of their way. they've gotten used to parting the waters of other pedestrians like moses during the pandemic and now they don't want to give the perk up. my reaction is to do nothing in particular. i neither impede nor clear out then there are these churchy moms who, instead, are actually going nuts trying to decide what the other person would prefer. and the asian man who always just deferentially stands on whoever's lawn he's at. these are the outliers, though. most normal people -- myself included -- have a sort of PTSD, i feel. that they don't really give a shit about sidewalk whatever but people were freaking nuts about it two years ago and so everyone's still rather squirrelish with each other. seeing others being squirrelish further reinforces the tendency my reaction is to do nothing in particular. i'm just going with my pre-covid policies. then obviously, city sidewalks are way different. but i also figure this is deeply, incredibly culturally specific. i'm curious what it's like in england; germany. has even mild canada felt the tension? |
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There is no protocol here. Generally people are well behaved, I have no complaints. |
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