Two Randoms.

[sechan19]

I have this tendency (which is a holdover from life in Japan) to veer to the left when going down or up public staircases, and I have observed that this tendency does not make the other students in the stairwells of the CoL very happy.

My cat likes Cheddar & Sour Cream potato chips very much. I don't know why this should surprise me, but it does.

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[lordameth.livejournal.com]

I do the same on stairs, and in hallways, on sidewalks, basically everywhere. But I think I always did (on account of being a lefty, perhaps?) even before I spent time in Japan and in England.

I continue to do it as a protest against the rightist righty dominant discursive hegemony in our society. Sure, everything would move more efficiently if we all stood to the right all the time (esp on escalators!) but that isn't going to happen, at least not in NYC and other parts of the country with which I am familiar. So, I say, fuck 'em. This is the land of the free, and I am free to walk on whichever side of the staircase I choose.

[reteva.livejournal.com]

LOL. Yeah, stick it to the man!

Actually, I don't really feel that strongly about it. I'm content to go in the direction that everyone is going; that's the most efficient thing to do. It's just that most of my time in a place where those kinds of patterns matter was spent in an area of the world where congregation tends to gather on the left. In spite of being a righty, I got into the lefty walking habit. Now I've begun to regularly visit a place where those patterns again matter, only they're the reverse and I keep forgetting!

I feel quite badly about it when I sometimes almost run into somebody. It's got to be a bloody nuisance to them. Heh.