Sometimes people are getting on with things, and sometimes they're standing around looking confused. There's a difference.
I was once in King's Cross underground station in London on the Piccadilly line platform when I saw a blind man ahead of me on the platform, having just got off the same train I'd got off, looking uncertain uncertain. Everyone was walking, he was standing still frowning. I asked if he needed a hand, and he asked to be directed to the Metropolitan line platform. Now this is by no means an intuitive place to find even if you can see, up several staircases and around several corners, and it happened to be where I was also going. So I said this, and offered my elbow and started walking. Once given the direction, he immediately hared off at top speed, much faster than I can walk, and I had to explain that in fact we were re-enacting a Biblical proverb here...
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Date: 2005-03-13 11:46 pm (UTC)I was once in King's Cross underground station in London on the Piccadilly line platform when I saw a blind man ahead of me on the platform, having just got off the same train I'd got off, looking uncertain uncertain. Everyone was walking, he was standing still frowning. I asked if he needed a hand, and he asked to be directed to the Metropolitan line platform. Now this is by no means an intuitive place to find even if you can see, up several staircases and around several corners, and it happened to be where I was also going. So I said this, and offered my elbow and started walking. Once given the direction, he immediately hared off at top speed, much faster than I can walk, and I had to explain that in fact we were re-enacting a Biblical proverb here...