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I have no idea how the Stanford CS building is laid out, but my default assumption of anyone in the building would be there for a reason, not that they're lost.
by waterlesscloud 11y ago
I have no idea how the Stanford CS building is laid out, but my default assumption of anyone in the building would be there for a reason, not that they're lost. Even if I didn't think they were a CS student for whatever reason, I'd figure they knew what they were doing.
- alialkhatib 11y agoSlightly tangential, but sometimes people I can only describe as "tourists" walk around in the publicly accessible areas, so it's not totally unprecedented. For what it's worth, I tend to tell these people apart from the people with business in the building by noting where they're looking (tourists seem to be looking all over the place like they're taking it all in; people with business at Gates seem to be looking for numbers and other navigational indicators in line with tzs's comment).
- plorkyeran 11y agoAnd, as it happens, "Hey, are you lost?" can be a polite way to tell a tourist that they've wandered in to an area that they aren't really supposed to be.