When she first came to Blair as a freshman last fall, she was too frightened to take on Blair Boulevard, preferring instead the back roads, Piney Branch and Montgomery. I came from a school with 300 kids to a school with 3,000 kids. For people like Anderson, the fact that social psychologists study things like pedestrian behavior does not come as a surprise. In Relations in Public, author Erving Goffman examines the use of public space. Behavior is based on underground conventions.
Greetings are one of the most crucial details of hallway etiquette.
Students shake, smile, nod, kiss, wave, bark and bump chests. Hey, hey, hey Senior Eddie Black has found that sometimes the impulse to say hello can become a little too strong. He often finds himself greeting the same person over and over again and feeling silly in the process. You see somebody after first period and you say hi to them. Then after second they still want to shake your hand.