Journal FortKnox's Journal: The Greatest Question In The WORLD! 32
You know when you are walking down the hall, or through the cube farm, you are always hugging the right side, letting people pass you (going the other way) on the left?
In England, do walk on the opposite side in the hallway (do you hug the right side)?
Ethelred... do you guys[1] go as fast as you want, usually running just cause you can??
[1] - Ethelred, when I refer to you and "you guys," I, of course, mean Germans (yeah, I know your American, but you ARE living out in doich land).
In England, do walk on the opposite side in the hallway (do you hug the right side)?
Ethelred... do you guys[1] go as fast as you want, usually running just cause you can??
[1] - Ethelred, when I refer to you and "you guys," I, of course, mean Germans (yeah, I know your American, but you ARE living out in doich land).
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I thought I read Ethelred's from Virgina and moved out to Germany. He can correct me if I'm wrong (my mind sometimes makes up stories for the hell of it... its how I keep myself entertained)
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My greatest question is this:
Would you?
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I'll easily top it with:
Have you?
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Living in Minnesota was a dubious pleasure indeed. ;-)
I'm from Virginia. I lived in Minnesnowta for almost ten years, but I'm from Virginia. That's where I was born and lived the longest.
My parents are still in MN, but they may well up stakes in the near future and move back to ole Virginny for their retirement and to be nearer to my brother an
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Cheers,
Ethelred
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Cheers,
Ethelred
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Mine never does.
Did you see how I totally schooled those other losers in the Tour de France?
Yeah, then Halle Berry and I had wild, passionate sex.
If you're going to make stuff up, at least make it damn good.
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She couldn't stand the amount of time you've been putting into the new site.
Sorry man.
I could always try to get you the hot auditor that's been running around here the last couple of days.
DAMN! I wish I worked in accounting.
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Actually, (I learned this from Bay Area freeways), (Score:1)
I also give dirty looks to anyone who walks out of their office without waiting for me to pass.
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The solution is simple: look one way and walk the other. Why does this work? I am not sure, but our feet have a tendency to follow our eyes and our eyes tend to look at the same thing someone else is looking at. So if you look in a direction the person facing you will look towards the same spo
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Hmm, I wonder if this trick could be used to get people to walk en-mass out into the street, say by first getting their attention (
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Thanks! I'll try it. (Score:1)
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What about the more awkward situations, where the person you are walking towards recognises you and you recognise them, but neither of you know whether or not you are too far away to actually initiate eye contact or talk so you both sort of raise your eyebrows and end up making funny faces at eac
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There's a whole set of related words in TMoL.
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You'd fit right in with the people in my office who never use their TURN SIGNALS when they walk down the hall.
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(Damn, does that always mess me up. Of course, in the heart of London they helpfully have LOOK RIGHT painted on crosswalks for the benefit tourists, but still...)
Cheers,
Ethelred
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Someone (while I was there) told me that was probably wise due to how messed up London's streets were anyway (with a lot of one way streets and all).
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