I was inspired by Michi’s post, which is about people’s behaviour at the railway-station. so I decided to blog again… The station in Bad Schussenried, which is always very crwoded in the morning, is a quite interesting place to study people. Although I’m obviously on “stand-by” (iPod level) I’m not sleeping. I’m studying… A observation which I made with Mr. Schmid is, that if somebody decides to stand (for lack of seats) when he is entering the train, a chain reaction starts and far more people decide to stand during the ride as normally usual. Freely translated we call that the “Meat head effect” but the upperswabian name is much more hitting. Another very interesting chain reaction is, when waiting people are occupying the stairs in the underpass (due to canopy and rain). When a persion is walking “consequently” up
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