My hobby: walking on the left side of hallways

[HardcoreRobot]

rl trolling ftl

 

[Jeff7]

Get into an elevator and let the doors close behind you. Take a stance o dominance and stare down everyone else in the elevator.

If anyone holds eye contact for more than 5 seconds, fart loudly and blame it on them.

Or that old thing of standing in there while facing opposite of everyone else.

Lol. All too common of a scenario. We are truly a stupid species.

We need a more effective means of collision avoidance, perhaps with a random retry timer.

 

[IronWing]

ATOTers live large! Giants, I tell you. Tomorrow, put the ice cream in first, damn the consequences.

 

[MotF Bane]

How many of them have walked into you?

 

[SithSolo1]

Try walking in the opposite direction of the floor arrows in Ikea. Its an interesting experience.

 

[Nebor]

I learned a long time ago that instead of doing the sidestep dance when you come face to face with someone in an effort to figure out how to go around them, it's much easier to just extend my left arm to their right shoulder and guide them to my left, where they should have been walking the whole time.

 

[Triumph]

There is nothing worse in this world than people who walk down the wrong side of the sidewalk/hallway/doorway/etc. I will not move, I refuse. In fact, anyone who seems intent on walking down the left side of the hallway gets the Terry Tate treatment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94&t=2m6s

 

[RedRooster]

I don't mind people like you. Its the ones that shuffle right down the middle, holding everybody up, that I despise.

 

[busydude]

Whenever I'm in a non-empty (and also non-crowded) hallway, I always make a point to walk on the left side.

Its amusing to see how some people react. Something like 25% of people are compelled to pass me on the right even though there isn't enough room. They'll try to squeeze between me and the wall even though there is plenty of space if they passed on the left.

I find it terribly amusing.

crappy diagram:

Do you even know the difference between left and right?

 

[Leros]

Do you even know the difference between left and right?

Yup. Do you?

 

[busydude]

Yup. Do you?

There is tons of room to your right. It is your left side that is crammed.

 

[tfinch2]

What pisses me off like nothing else is when I am trying to get out of a elevator, and the people rush in before I can, making me juke my way out. I may very well truck a motherfucker sooner or later.

 

[nanette1985]

Try walking in the opposite direction of the floor arrows in Ikea. Its an interesting experience.

I do that all the time!!! And yes it is an interesting experience.

 

[Leros]

There is tons of room to your right. It is your left side that is crammed.

That's because I'm walking on the left....

 

[busydude]

That's because I'm walking on the left....

Then explain this.

Something like 25% of people are compelled to pass me on the right even though there isn't enough room.

 

[Leros]

Then explain this.

Their right is my left.... are you stupid?

 

[busydude]

Their right is my left.... are you stupid?

Hahahahahahaha. No.

 

[Leros]

Hahahahahahaha. No.

I have a feeling that if I met you in a hallway, you would be one of those rare people who can't figure out what to do and scoots sideways along the wall to pass me.

 

[busydude]

I have a feeling that if I met you in a hallway, you would be one of those rare people who can't figure out what to do and scoots sideways along the wall to pass me.

There is clear lack of consistency between you mspaint pic and the description.

 

[Leros]

There is clear lack of consistency between you mspaint pic and the description.

I think the lack of consistency is in your brain.

When talking about "passing on the right/left", you're talking from the point of view of the passer, not the person being passed.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Not backward, just different. Its what got me interested.

Passing on the left/right is such an arbitrary decision, but it is something that becomes ubiquitous within a culture. We do it without thinking about it. I find it interesting to see how people react or fail to adapt to a change in something like passing on a certain side.

it is backwards when considering the majority of humans are right oriented

 

[Leros]

it is backwards when considering the majority of humans are right oriented

Being right handed doesn't necessarily correspond to walking on the right. I think you could start with humans being right handed and create arguments for passing on either side.

 

[busydude]

I think the lack of consistency is in your brain.

No.. the pic tells me that you and them are walking in opposite direction.

If you were walking in opposite direction.. then you both pass from the same side. His left side is your left side.

 

[Leros]

No.. the pic tells me that you and them are walking in opposite direction.

If you were walking in opposite direction.. then you both pass from the same side. His left side is your left side.

If you pass someone on the right, then your left side would be closest to them.

 

[busydude]

If you pass someone on the right, then your left side would be closest to them.

Yes.. provided both are walking in the same direction.

Now, in OP, are them and you walking in the same direction.. or the opposite?

I ask because it is only you walking on the left side.