Comments | elly427: i blame the tourists. in a completely non-judgemental, Canadian sort of way, of course

elly427

i blame the tourists. in a completely non-judgemental, Canadian sort of way, of course

Feb 26, 2010 21:44

Poll walk left, stand right

Ahem. SUCK IT, Slovakia! And hey, USA, BRING IT.

Oh, I feel bad and guilty even saying tha even thought I am 1/8 Slovakian! I worry I am jinxing us! BUT STILL!

ETA: ARG I cannot edit that $ out! Imagine it's like Ke$ha, I suppose.

olympics, 'real' life, vancouver

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anr February 27 2010, 05:50:40 UTC

completely the opposite down under :) we're "keep to the left unless overtaking", heheh.

elly427 February 27 2010, 05:58:31 UTC

Oh, you crazy kids! You also drive on the wrong side of the road! ;)

anr February 27 2010, 06:04:17 UTC

thhp! it only looks like the wrong side 'cause you're looking at us upside down or something.

elly427 February 28 2010, 06:17:47 UTC

If only I weren't standing on my head! I'm sure it would all be clear then! ;)

(Also! Thank you for the ballons!)

wisteria_ February 27 2010, 06:02:10 UTC

Stand on the right! Though I suppose my insistence comes from having lived in London, where that is a cardinal rule. Here, we don't have as many people climbing escalators (they're primarily used in places like malls where folks aren't in a rush), so those who do want to climb are often left out.

elly427 February 27 2010, 06:28:56 UTC

See, we have escalators as the primary way of getting out of the transit stations, so when people stand left it screws the entire system up! Argh!

I also get annoyed when people stand left at the mall, but that is me and I am trying to get over it.

nicole_anell February 27 2010, 06:08:19 UTC

I learned the escalator thing the hard way when I was in London! Here it's basically "stand wherever you want unless somebody is walking through and tells you to move your ass."

elly427 February 27 2010, 06:30:31 UTC

HEE. I will not pretend that I did not say, loudly "STAND RIGHT WALK LEFT" while on the skytrain this week. It's an international lesson to be learned! If I don't inform you politely, someone else will do it by shoving!

all_shine_on February 27 2010, 06:13:23 UTC

I'm thinking you've been downtown with the tourists, am I right? STAND RIGHT WALK LEFT. It says so right on the signs! Drives me totally nuts when they don't do that because it totally breaks the flow of moving downtown.

elly427 February 27 2010, 06:31:31 UTC

GRANVILLE STATION IS NOT THE RIGHT PLACE TO TEST MY PATIENCE. Those escalators are steep enough that I do not need to be annoyed whilst scaling them. Jeez!

effervescent February 27 2010, 06:42:40 UTC

Ahahaha, when I first started using the elevators here I made that mistake -g- I was just sort of like '...but, but, why would you want to walk UP an escalator??' But now I get irritated when people don't move, haha.

elly427 February 27 2010, 07:06:37 UTC

*cracks up* Coming from the east coast I was exactly the same way, but now when I'm in Halifax I get SO ANNOYED when people sprawl across the elevator. Oy! MOVE IT OR LOSE IT is my new motto,

bluebanrigh February 27 2010, 08:21:17 UTC

Totally stand on the left, walk on the right. :)

elly427 February 28 2010, 05:05:00 UTC

Oh, you crazy wrong side of the streeters! I would be fine with that, just, you know, have a lane for walking, tourists! That is all I want!

bluebanrigh February 28 2010, 06:11:53 UTC

Fair and totally valid point, people should totally stick to one side. I hate it when I have to dodge left and right to walk past people on the escalators or travelators. Though I usually take the stairs cause they're usually empty.

Lol, love your icon.