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I don't think people are teaching their kids how to walk properly in public.
I was in a hardware store yesterday - it was very busy - and people kept running into me.
Most of them were just darting from here to there, without looking - some were on the "wrong side" of the aisle - were walking on the left of the aisle.
My mother taught me at a young age to always walk on the right side of the sidewalk/aisle . . . if everyone does that, then you don't run into each other. I don't think parents are teaching their kids this important "skill" these days.
Come on down to our boardwalk if you want to see ignorant people. It's shared use and many groups will walk arm to arm across the entire thing like some weird army.
I'm just curious....do we walk on the right because we drive on the right? How do people walk in countries where they drive on the left?
I've been told that if they drive on the left, they also walk on the left. The one exception seems to be Japan where they stand to the right on escalators but walk on the right on sidewalks.
I checked yes---but then I remembered that it really is through hiking that I learned to keep to the right---and I only started to hike as an adult. It amazes me at the gym that I have to get out of the way when I am leaving the locker room on the right and women are trying to get in and are all the way over on the left. If I didn't move I am 100% sure we would walk into each other!
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