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

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Actually, in my experience this is not so much cities as London (and possibly other cities of equivalent size). Go to Manchester, Edinburgh, or Belfast (the other cities I have lived in in my life), and it just isn't like that -- people get out of each other's way, make space, and don't think that the quickest way of getting on a train is to crowd forward and reduce the people getting off to single file.

What I don't like about cities

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

- the people.

What I don't like about life in general:

- the people.

I like my friends (and my Friends). But either/ both of the above can make me feel terribly claustrophobic after prolonged exposure. Made this lunchtime's negotiation of the City feel like solitary bliss, as I was alone in my head.

Now you all think I'm weird so no change there

On an unrelated point

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask where these new user pics for you and marypcb came from, and then I remembered that you're friends of Bryan Talbot, and that he often tries to draw from his friends.