Remember what I said about the vast majority of passengers on this ship coming from Australia & New Zealand?
Now, think about cars and driving rules/ Got it? Now expand that to walking, stairs, and going through doors. North Americans (and all Europeans outside of the UK which doesn’t really amount for much now that it has exited the EU) drive on the right. People walk on the right, passing is done on the left. In an emergency, one veers right. Drop this smaller but not insignificant number of persons on a ship where the majority of people drive on the left, walk on the left and veer left when confronted with an emergency.
Or someone in their direct path – which puts both on-coming people on a direct collision path.
I have been watching this phenomenon since Hawaii and it became obvious. So I now walk down the left side of the stairs. I head through the middle of sliding doors and let the other person go first. If they duck one way, I go the other…
and tonight we travel back another hour (and I think jump ahead a day if this is when we are crossing the International Dateline. So my – 6 hours from Pacific Daylight time turns into being 18 hours ahead. In reality – it means that I am still going to be watching some of my continuing education programs at 00Dark 30 in the morning – it will just be on a different date. Sucks…
But it is also how I found out that there are green lighting strips in the halls that only shine at night
The Mini-Haunting SAL is complete except for the backstitching.
and Dreaming of Butterflies
is also complete.
