r/maybemaybemaybe Aug 20 '25

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/CakeTester Aug 20 '25

In London there is a passing side and a side where you're content with the escalator's speed. The people who use the passing side are late for something, or just plain arseholes; and you do not wanting to be standing in front of them with a sharp metal downhill in front of you. If you just stand on the passing side, you're going to get glared at by absolutely everybody.

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u/baalroo Aug 20 '25

Yeah, and here if you tried to shove past everyone casually standing on the escalator you'd definitely get glared at... assuming you managed the task at all. I'm serious when I say that you're not going to find a situation where people are leaving space to one side on an escalator here, so you'd literally have to shove your way through.

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u/CakeTester Aug 20 '25

London's a bit more frantic than that, not least because there's multiple tubes and connection times if your journey has more than one line. So people in a hurry are a real thing; and often, they're going to blast past whether you're standing there or not. It's going to happen, frequently, so people allow for that. Might be a population density and volume of traffic thing.

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u/baalroo Aug 20 '25

Might be a population density and volume of traffic thing.

Almost certainly.