Logically, I assumed the side you walk on follows what side of the road you drive on. but, the stairs on the tube have you walk up on the right, while the escalators have you walk on the left. Add this to all the other foreigners who walk on the right and it can be a real rush hour cluster fuck.

I hate it when I get caught in that face off when you end up confronting someone walking in the opposite direction and you both sort of do a jig to the right and left faking each other out as you try to get around each other.

By the way, the London part of #3 (of course) actually happened to me on the Underground a few weeks ago. Incredibly crowded car, guy jumps in at the last minute behind me, and is (as happens when you push in) smooshed against the door. Motherfucker gets frustrated and kidney punches me! For no reason at all. Like a punch, with a fist and with force, not accidental. I turn and ask him (per NYC social mandate) “Um, what the fuck was that?” And the entire train, like every single pasty Briton on there, stares me down! In NYC, people woulda known the score, understood what had happened. You’d not say what I said unless something fairly serious had happened. If you were just being a dick, the tone would be different – purposefully different.

Ugh. Yes meme away!