Yesterday I flew back from China. I had a connecting flight in
San Fran, and had a short layover - due to my 1st flight being delayed 35minutes.
In China & Hong Kong, there's a large congestion of people all the time. They're all constantly bumping into you, or pushing their way in. It doesn't matter how big/small/old you are, it's just a constant "me first" approach.
As such you quite used to high paced walking and pushing back as much as the locals do, push on me and I push back; at th same force.
Yet the US isn't like that (except at rush hour in certain high traffic locations).
So during my transfer, I was walking at China pace, but not really pushing as there were few people in San Fran airport @ 10pm.
Anyhow, I blow past this older woman at the gate, and maybe just w/ my size & speed, she goes completely down.
She as an old "blue hair," and the stares I got from the others waiting for flight were quite evil.
I did help her up, apologized for knocking her over, and continued on my way.
I didn't really feel wrong for knocking her over, as I didn't actually knock into her, but it did give me a wake up that the US was quite slower.
