This week I have witnessed some odd behaviour. People really are like lemmings.
- Stuck in a jam on a dual carriageway, after about 15 minutes one lemming decides to drive over the grass centre onto the other direction, within 30 seconds about 15 other lemmings followed.
- Sat on a bench in the park near to the car park I watched a lemming start a 3rd row of parking thus blocking in the poor sap in the second row, the car park was full, again several other lemmings followed, not a nano seconds thought to others. In about 3 or 4 minutes 20+ cars were blocked in.
- Decided to get a coffee from McD's, since when has standing 20 feet back from the counter been the norm? a crowd of about 20 lemmings all stood way back almost to the door...
- Driving to work this morning along M42 which is a managed motorway clearly the hard shoulder was for emergency use only as the signs were pointing out... not a single lemming on the hard shoulder until one such lemming decides to ignore the sign a mile and a half from the junction, lo and behold a succession of lemmings all then piled onto the hard shoulder for the next junction.
- Catching a flight earlier in the week, call was made for rows 10 to 28 to board, I was the only person left seated, all the lemmings got up to board only for the attendant at the gate to send possibly hundreds of lemmings back thus slowing down the boarding of the aircraft. They put a call out to tell lemmings only rows called would be boarded. Call went out for rows 29-35 ... and guess what? yep lemmings swung back into lemming behaviour.
The human psyche, fascinating yet infuriating.
- Stuck in a jam on a dual carriageway, after about 15 minutes one lemming decides to drive over the grass centre onto the other direction, within 30 seconds about 15 other lemmings followed.
- Sat on a bench in the park near to the car park I watched a lemming start a 3rd row of parking thus blocking in the poor sap in the second row, the car park was full, again several other lemmings followed, not a nano seconds thought to others. In about 3 or 4 minutes 20+ cars were blocked in.
- Decided to get a coffee from McD's, since when has standing 20 feet back from the counter been the norm? a crowd of about 20 lemmings all stood way back almost to the door...
- Driving to work this morning along M42 which is a managed motorway clearly the hard shoulder was for emergency use only as the signs were pointing out... not a single lemming on the hard shoulder until one such lemming decides to ignore the sign a mile and a half from the junction, lo and behold a succession of lemmings all then piled onto the hard shoulder for the next junction.
- Catching a flight earlier in the week, call was made for rows 10 to 28 to board, I was the only person left seated, all the lemmings got up to board only for the attendant at the gate to send possibly hundreds of lemmings back thus slowing down the boarding of the aircraft. They put a call out to tell lemmings only rows called would be boarded. Call went out for rows 29-35 ... and guess what? yep lemmings swung back into lemming behaviour.
The human psyche, fascinating yet infuriating.
