Whichever side gets me through the crowd faster. Slow ass walkers getting in my way all the time...
Wow, that?s a little counter-intuitive if I?m understanding correctly. Let?s saying you?re walking a downtown sidewalk, the store fronts you?re passing are on your left(?), someone is walking towards you with the store fronts passing on their right side(?) and when it comes time to pass each other, you cross the other person?s path (move to your right) to pass your left shoulder by their left shoulder? Seems if you both defer to your left-most preference, congestion is most easily avoided.Abomination said:I walk on left and pass by going right as that seems to be how most people walk in a left-driving country.
Sometimes people do not and it's infuriating as it generates bloody pedestrian congestion.
You misunderstand, I would pass people walking the same way as me by passing them on their right, because they would normally be keeping to the left.Xprimentyl said:Wow, that?s a little counter-intuitive if I?m understanding correctly. Let?s saying you?re walking a downtown sidewalk, the store fronts you?re passing are on your left(?), someone is walking towards you with the store fronts passing on their right side(?) and when it comes time to pass each other, you cross the other person?s path (move to your right) to pass your left shoulder by their left shoulder? Seems if you both defer to your left-most preference, congestion is most easily avoided.Abomination said:I walk on left and pass by going right as that seems to be how most people walk in a left-driving country.
Sometimes people do not and it's infuriating as it generates bloody pedestrian congestion.
Rude. Learn some manners. Jeez.Xprimentyl said:Sorry, what exactly are you taking issue with? The question had nothing to do manners, courtesies or tacit communication. I observed at a local mall that in free-form pedestrian traffic traveling in opposing directions, the vast majority of people favored patterns similar to what I observe on our right-hand side driving roads: walking on the right-hand side. My question was whether or not people in countries that drive on the left-hand side of the road also walk on the left-hand side of midways and sidewalks and whether or not people felt the former was the reason for the latter.Jamcie Kerbizz said:Isn't that part of etiquette anymore? Like that at door people going out should be given way, women before men, elders before children etc. (it's slightly different in different regions, ie. Middle East and North Africa but usually very consistent within a region). It's just set of customs to streamline daily societal relations, so people would know what to expect from one another without need of verbal communication and resulting disputes/clashes (going by Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry's fox thought on source of conflicts ).
I was tought, that left side countries claim they derive it from tradition of jousting and one visiting such country should respect local customs. Honestly though, it just doesn't matter. People at one point just had to pick a side to stop bumping onto each other and getting angry about it.
Question, did your parents not pass onto you these customs when you were young?
Unlike you, nothing.Xprimentyl said:Sorry, what exactly are you taking issue with?Jamcie Kerbizz said:Isn't that part of etiquette anymore? Like that at door people going out should be given way, women before men, elders before children etc. (it's slightly different in different regions, ie. Middle East and North Africa but usually very consistent within a region). It's just set of customs to streamline daily societal relations, so people would know what to expect from one another without need of verbal communication and resulting disputes/clashes (going by Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry's fox thought on source of conflicts ).
I was tought, that left side countries claim they derive it from tradition of jousting and one visiting such country should respect local customs. Honestly though, it just doesn't matter. People at one point just had to pick a side to stop bumping onto each other and getting angry about it.
Question, did your parents not pass onto you these customs when you were young?
I generally don?t dignify senseless, self-righteous (and in this case misfired) internet passive-aggression? and I still won?t.Jamcie Kerbizz said:Unlike you, nothing.Xprimentyl said:Sorry, what exactly are you taking issue with?Jamcie Kerbizz said:Isn't that part of etiquette anymore? Like that at door people going out should be given way, women before men, elders before children etc. (it's slightly different in different regions, ie. Middle East and North Africa but usually very consistent within a region). It's just set of customs to streamline daily societal relations, so people would know what to expect from one another without need of verbal communication and resulting disputes/clashes (going by Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry's fox thought on source of conflicts ).
I was tought, that left side countries claim they derive it from tradition of jousting and one visiting such country should respect local customs. Honestly though, it just doesn't matter. People at one point just had to pick a side to stop bumping onto each other and getting angry about it.
Question, did your parents not pass onto you these customs when you were young?
It is quite simple answer. This is matter of traditional etiquette, that has been passed on from parents to kids for generations for menial daily utility reasons. Just like other things I mentioned. So divagation if it's traffic regulation determined etc. Eh, it's the other way. Traffic regulations are formalized representation of traditional regional customs (or in some countries customs of victors).
Now since such question surfaces I wonder and ask if parents stopped doing it? I'm literally interested if this is something universal or just individual case. NOT offended or disgruntled by it just surprised and intrigued. Did parents stopped passing on such customs, so knowledge of it just died out in some parts of the world. Thus your bewilderment, thus this thread, thus my bewilderment.
Cheers.
You're being pointlessly aggressive. I explained my intentions and reiterated the question. Whole subject has absolutely no potential to be divisive aside someone investing emotions into it, as you clearly went and did. If you are bent on being hostile don't ascribe your own feelings to me please.Xprimentyl said:I generally don?t dignify senseless, self-righteous (and in this case misfired) internet passive-aggression? and I still won?t.Jamcie Kerbizz said:Unlike you, nothing.Xprimentyl said:Sorry, what exactly are you taking issue with?Jamcie Kerbizz said:Isn't that part of etiquette anymore? Like that at door people going out should be given way, women before men, elders before children etc. (it's slightly different in different regions, ie. Middle East and North Africa but usually very consistent within a region). It's just set of customs to streamline daily societal relations, so people would know what to expect from one another without need of verbal communication and resulting disputes/clashes (going by Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry's fox thought on source of conflicts ).
I was tought, that left side countries claim they derive it from tradition of jousting and one visiting such country should respect local customs. Honestly though, it just doesn't matter. People at one point just had to pick a side to stop bumping onto each other and getting angry about it.
Question, did your parents not pass onto you these customs when you were young?
It is quite simple answer. This is matter of traditional etiquette, that has been passed on from parents to kids for generations for menial daily utility reasons. Just like other things I mentioned. So divagation if it's traffic regulation determined etc. Eh, it's the other way. Traffic regulations are formalized representation of traditional regional customs (or in some countries customs of victors).
Now since such question surfaces I wonder and ask if parents stopped doing it? I'm literally interested if this is something universal or just individual case. NOT offended or disgruntled by it just surprised and intrigued. Did parents stopped passing on such customs, so knowledge of it just died out in some parts of the world. Thus your bewilderment, thus this thread, thus my bewilderment.
Cheers.
To clarify more simply: I asked ?WHAT?; that implies there?s something I don?t know. I did not ask ?WHY,? which would imply there?s something I don?t understand; your response would apply to the latter should I or anyone have actually asked it.