Below is a page I colored last Friday and Saturday. It’s from the Sweden section in The Look coloring book. Two friends are walking the dog in Stockholm. This one’s in honor of a dear friend who lives in Sweden and of whom I was thinking while I colored.
I’ve named this dog Sabi (she’ll know why). Sabi’s a social media influencer who loves being the center of attention. He’s very big in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. In fact, he paid for everything they’re wearing and their cell phones. Good dog! (Note: He would be a good dog even without his earning power. All dogs are good dogs, including complicated Jack.)
(And look, Mark–another zebra crossing!)
And who doesn’t like zebras? You know how we pronounce that word, right?
I would love to revisit Copenhagen. Wonderful city. I would like to see more of Denmark and Scandinavia in general.
I listened to the pronunciation on YouTube. Who knew?!? Not I.
Still no Zed-brahs on Zed-brah crossings with lit up lolly and signs screaming “look right –>” (or else!)
It just doesn’t happen.
Do we have signs like that here? I’m rarely a pedestrian on busy streets so I don’t know.
I’ve never seen them here. The countries that drive and walk on the right hand side of streets don’t tell the foreigners to “” signs on the pavement in popular UK touristy places though.
Unfortunately, the tourists won the convention of standing on the right hand side of the escalators in the London Underground, where the residents are treated to keep right signs, so that the more important foreigners can run the already moving escalators on the left side anywhere in the world. Years later, I saw a study on TV that helped unclog Underground exits by telling everyone to stand on both sides of the escalators.
Before cars, did they walk on the left and the rest of the world walk on the right? Or, did everyone just dodge the crowds of zebras in any direction?
Tea? I’ll get the plates and chocolate sauce.
Oh, my brain. I get everything you’re saying, but when you see old old old films of people, it all just seems to be a big jumble.
I loathe the custom of people running up and down escalators. Good grief, it’s okay to have a few seconds of stillness. The billionaires will still make their money and the world will continue to turn without you moving until you drop dead.
Up and down DuPont Circle, DC, Metrorail Station, there are three massively lllooooooooonnnnnnnnng escalators. When they break, it is quite the climb up out of the station! I do confess that I would try walking down the downward escalator to the station, but not up! (I hear they are finally, finally going to be replaced with brand shiny new ones! They have been repaired often when I visit that area of DC.)
Over the years, especially after a cartoon of Chaos trapping someone in a perpetual fall rolling down the up escalator out of some kind of anything you can do I can do better cartoon challenge, I’ve become more and more unwilling to walk/run on the moving escalators.
Now, with or without glasses, if that yellow line across the step isn’t there, I don’t trust the depth of what I see. I’ve fallen down enough non-moving staircases now!
Yikes. I’ve ridden the subways in D.C., which were eerily clean compared to the subways of NYC. However, I rode D.C.’s a couple of years before my first trip to NYC. I don’t remember riding any escalators, but there were too many other things to be attentive to in October of ’96 in D.C.
Roxette?
Roxette?
It may have been my introduction to Roxette, a 12″ single I bought in a record shop of The Look, but the song is also on their Look Sharp CD, and I don’t know which I bought first., but this colored crossing would easily made a good cover, especially the single (substituting the people to be the band, of course.)
Thanks for the explanation!