What I don't like about cities...

[sbisson]

I grew up on a small island, I now live in a big city.

Normally I like the city, it's busy, bustling, exciting. But there's one thing that I find increasingly annoying. No one takes turns. They rush off the tube, crushing into narrow doorways, something that would be made so much simpler if people just filtered in turn by turn. It's a logical and simple way of working that shows consideration for their fellow human beings, but they just focus on their destinations and tune out simple considerations that would actually make their journeys easier.

Perhaps it's just me...

Comments

[akicif.livejournal.com]

it's been a while since I've done any wandering around Belfast, but even at its worst, Edinburgh's nothing like as bad as London. And while the tourists in the West End were a bit of a bother, they were nothing like as bad for sheer 'me first'-ism as the hordes of fat and greasy citizens swirling about the City. If Dante's Inferno was to exist, I reckon that Charon's boat would have been replaced by something not completely unlike the Waterloo & City line in August.