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I have been thinking about this more than can be healthy recently. In my kids school there is an open yard, through an open gateway, into another open yard in

I have been thinking about this more than can be healthy recently. In my kids school there is an open yard, through an open gateway, into another open yard in front of the school ┌─────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ┌──────┴───xx────┴──────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───────────────────────────┘ Lets say xx is the gateway. At pick-up time this is where parents will stop to talk. This used to drive me mad as it was literally a bottleneck and i wondered why people could be so inconsiderate, but I started to observe, and people would meet, greet each other, and then walk together to that point to stop and talk - and everyone would do it, it is like they are drawn to that gateway to talk - and it has baffled me, i really think we are hardwired to do it, despite the impracticality of it for other people - why??

ethanbond 4y ago
If you like thinking about this sort of stuff, you’d get a kick out of flipping through Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language. Full of observations and examples like this from city scale down to room scale.
therockspush 4y ago
I understand completely, and there's probably a good part of it explained by peoples space awareness turning off when they're around their kids. If I had a haypenny for every time someone walked their doublewide stroller into me, forget about it. But people do it everywhere. Elevators, stairs, bars. Ants do it for a reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiNEORy0Krc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiNEORy0Krc People do too but if they aren't aware enough to move out of the way, it might tell you what part of the brain those people are operating with.

ethanbond 4y ago

If you like thinking about this sort of stuff, you’d get a kick out of flipping through Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language. Full of observations and examples like this from city scale down to room scale.

therockspush 4y ago

I understand completely, and there's probably a good part of it explained by peoples space awareness turning off when they're around their kids. If I had a haypenny for every time someone walked their doublewide stroller into me, forget about it. But people do it everywhere. Elevators, stairs, bars. Ants do it for a reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiNEORy0Krc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiNEORy0Krc People do too but if they aren't aware enough to move out of the way, it might tell you what part of the brain those people are operating with.