Another observation I have made in New York was that people do not obey the stay-to-the-right rule. At first I figured that this was a problem with an ethnically diverse culture where some people are used to being on the left side while walking. Later I discovered that it was not due to background but because people were in a rush. If the train they wanted to get to was on the left, they would run down the left side of the stairway.

These are my enemies. They are people who make me shake my head and say how silly people can be. Well, today I was silly. But I did it at the wrong time. I noticed that hundreds of people were funneling down one side of the stairway and hundreds of other people were funneling up the other side. Since I was downstairs, it would have been my duty to go up the side that was going up as well. The only problem was that the people coming down were completely blocking my ability to walk over to the up side!

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