We live in a society where people come from all parts of the world and they all walk on the left or the right of the hallway.
We in Canada were always taught to walk on the right side and it was litterally drilled into us with every fire drill and class change from elementary school on up.
Now at work I get all kinds of dirty looks when I am on the right and I bump into someone coming the other way.
when you run a company and this happens dozens if not hundreds of of times every single day don't you think you would address the point or is it really too minor.
I have never said anything to anyone about it but since i'm here i thought i'd ask what you all think
2007-07-29 05:16:33 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
thats the reason I asked the question. so many peoploe from countries that drive on the other side. you putthem in tight quarters and you get accidents. why wouldnt somebody say something like everybody keep right or everybody keep left. one or the other instead of every man for himself. but again not THAT big a deal.
2007-07-31 10:33:13 · update #1
there is no "FLOW
2007-07-31 10:34:51 · update #2
There is so much room in Australia that people comiing towards each other never have to bump.
I have a girlfriend who, if you are goiing out with her socially, she has a fetish that if you start out walking on her right, you have to stay on her right side till a natural stop comes, like the restaurant you were heading for. Then the first one out of the restaurant assumes a position nearest the shops or nearest the road and the other one fills in the gap and then you have to stay like that till the next meal or major stop. It is hard to do if you are walking by the road and you see something nice in a shop and you dive in to look in the window up close. When you get back in formation you might not do it the right way and she gets furious and makes you stand still while she runs around you to get to the position she was in before you stopped. And then she rolls her eyes and fumes and doesn't speak to you till after the next stop, providing you don't do it again. She started doing this on an overseas holiday so I was stuck with going along with it, because I know that some people get OCD when they are out of familiary territory. But the trouble was, when we got back home, she still kept to this habit. But I couldn't go out much with her anyway till the bruises from her camera strap faded from around my neck.
2007-07-29 05:43:09 · answer #1 · answered by wemblania 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People get into the idea of walking like they drive... on the right side and usually fairly erratically.
If you don't believe me, go to a mall on a Saturday afternoon and watch the dirty looks directed at people going against the flow.
Don't take it too seriously. See what the "flow" is at work and try to stay with that.
Is the hallway too narrow?
2007-07-29 12:24:15 · answer #2 · answered by revsuzanne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everything needs time to get acclimatized. In due time all will be well. When u r in Rome be a Roman.
2007-07-29 12:24:25 · answer #3 · answered by jimmybond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different strokes for different folks
2007-07-29 12:48:33 · answer #4 · answered by Gypsy Gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋