It's a DC, big-city thing. Not common sense for someone from an area where no one runs up and down escalators. I had to remind my wife about the convention several times during our recent trip to DC. I remember having to figure out that in Sweden they walked on the left. Ran into a few folks before I sorted that one out.
Not like everyone else. He had bodyguards and chauffeurs but shortly after the election he ditched his Secret Service escort and went out to an up-scale restaurant. He was in a bubble but the diameter was only about 50 yards. Going to a meal at Union Station indicates he doesn't yet understand how big the bubble around the president is. (e.g. the manholes have to be checked and welded shut along any land route he travels.)
Is that suppose to be his idea of "draining the swamp", or is he simply restocking the swamp with fresh predators?
It's not a big city thing. It's a common courtesy basic situational awareness thing. No different than casually holding up passing vehicular traffic by clogging up the left lane of a highway. In my experience most countries walk on the same side that they drive, probably as part of a subconscious routine, but there are exceptions here and there.
I agree. Simple situastional awareness would lead people to do the right thing after maybe one false start. unfortunately many people, and many American tourists in particular tend to be remarkably situationally unaware on many occasions. That bubbles things strikes again I am afraid
They don't do that. Heck, I've watched the motorcade drive over the temporary steel plates they put over construction cuts. Its just not practical.
