Another week in London has passed, and yet the city still seems to amaze me. One of the most confusing, yet interesting aspects of London (and probably the rest of Britain) is on which side to walk. What I mean is, the cars drive on the left side of the road, but if you’re walking, where should you be?
On the escalators, you stand on the right and pass on the left. When I first learned this, I thought it was odd, but liked the idea. It’s so nice and easy to simply know if you want to move faster, go to the left. If you have the time to leisurely ride to your destination, please stay to the right. Since the left seems to be the dominant side, you would assume most people just pass on the left too, right?
Wrong. Unfortunately, it’s so hard to tell if people are British or not (especially since a large majority are not) such rules do not apply while simply walking down the street. On the escalators, it’s literally a rule as to where to go, but honestly, I’ve almost run into so many people on the sidewalks and in the Tube stations simply because people walk all over. It’s madness, I tell you. People rush from place to place almost as bad as those huge double-decker buses that never stop. Time is precious, and can’t be used to avoid a poor little foreigner such as myself.
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