hee! That reminds me of a friend of my brother who worked as an usher at the Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles open-air ampitheatre -- essentially the Tanglewood equivalent). Patrons are funneled in from the side in a few rows, so there are these mad insane totally bonkers crushing chokepoints where patrons are asking ushers where section C or D or Q or whatever are.
"Three rows down" is their universal answer. Even if it's patently false, it's 1, a very fast answer that 2, diffuses the crowd. So what if they have to backtrack? They'll go up or down, and essentially you're modelling red blood cells in capillaries.
I treat anything the conductors say as equivalent to "Jesus is on the next train", which at least leaves me amused, if not going any faster. :)
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Date: 2008-02-11 03:03 pm (UTC)"Three rows down" is their universal answer. Even if it's patently false, it's 1, a very fast answer that 2, diffuses the crowd. So what if they have to backtrack? They'll go up or down, and essentially you're modelling red blood cells in capillaries.
I treat anything the conductors say as equivalent to "Jesus is on the next train", which at least leaves me amused, if not going any faster. :)