Which side of the sidewalk to you walk on?

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I’m with you on the walking lanes. Same as road rules, non-verbally signal direction and lane changes—my wife has no concept of these things. When we go to the mall, I feel like a salmon on a spawn mission weaving between on coming pedestrians and randomly looking to make way between obstacles.

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