# Discreet Human Behavior....

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 9, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discreet-human-behavior/795856 "2017-09-09T02:13:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discreet-human-behavior/795856/41 "2017-09-11T20:18:45Z")

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> [@Sailboat](#):
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> A behavior I run into frequently in Washington, DC:
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> Someone is coming toward me, either on the wrong side of the sidewalk (we tend to stay right here in the old USA) or they are crossing in front of me to reach a storefront. As we see each other, I adjust my course to avoid them.
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> A moment later, they correct their course to one which will intercept and strike me.
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> Again, I correct my course. Again, after observing me, they change course to intercept and collide.
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> I am NOT talking about people simultaneously trying to outguess each other – that happens too and it obviously doesn’t bother me. But I meet a startling number of these weirdos who correct course incorrectly a good moment AFTER I have altered course. It’s like their brains are affected by Internet lag or something. Sometimes multiple times in a single encounter.

In a similar vein, at the grocery store, we also _should_ drive on the right in the good old USA.

But, there’s always those people that are on your right with a cart, you try to get further to the right than them as they head towards you, they adjust even more to the right, and eventually you say “fuck it” to yourself and swing wildly to the left to avoid them. They can see you trying to get further to the right than them, _they even make eye contact with you_, yet, it’s like they don’t understand that you are simply obeying the “rules of the road”, as it were.

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discreet-human-behavior/795856/42 "2017-09-11T20:19:47Z")

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> [@keturah](#):
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> Glad to see you still have a sense of humor! Take care of yourself!!

Thank you very much. I will try.

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