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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 9756136" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Tangential to lane usage:A decade or so ago, one that really got me was a rash of pedestrians walking x-abreast on a path or sidewalk towards someone who was walking singly all the way to the right (possibly up against hedges or a wall or fence).  The groups (or couples) would apparently expect the lone people to step off the path or in some cases apparently flatten against the wall.It finally got to the point where if they were very old or very young or bigger than me I would still try to get out of the way as much as possible. In several other cases they seemed exceedingly surprised that they weren't deferred to when they crashed into my shoulder and that no I wouldn't apologize*.It wasn't a problem before that year or after, and I have no idea what odd social thing caused it.  Or maybe I just had a temporary gray man aura.  * I did sympathize with one member of a couple when the other one who ran into me became completely unglued.  That was a case where the only choice for me would be to climb up on a 3' wall next to the path to avoid it.</blockquote>