Re: Pet Peeves
This is kind of a corollary of the sidewalk thing, but it's worse when it happens on stairs. I mean, if it happens on a sidewalk, you can step into the street or something, but when you're walking up a flight of stairs, and there's a big group coming down, where are you gonna go? And if they start bumping into you, you've gotta grab the handrail to make sure you don't lose your balance and tumble down a flight of stairs. I mean, why can't stairs be just like driving? Stay to the right, that way no one bothers anyone else.
Oh, also on escalators. When you're going up an escalator and there are people in front of you, and you want to walk up rather than just stand there and let it carry you up, but you can't because they're standing there. They should stay to one side so that people can walk by. I know that this is kind of an unwritten rule on the DC metro (where the escalators are literally HUNDREDS of feet long), but it should apply everywhere.
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