It’s not just the roads that are backwards; I rode an escalator at the mall today, and the one going up was on the left and the on going down on the right. Also, when walking through the mall, people naturally tended to walk to the left of the aisle. I guess it makes sense, but it still struck me as weird.

Speaking of the mall, the Trafford Centre was the biggest mall I’ve ever seen. It picks chunks bigger than Wolfchase out of its stool. Also, the wings were named like streets, and each store had an address over its entrance. I looked in the yellow pages to find out where a particular store was; it was listed as being at 124 Peel Ave., and I only found out later that ?Peel Avenue? is a wing inside the mall.

There was a movie theater (theatre) in the mall, and I stopped to see what was playing. I was interested to see that under the description of each movie, it listed specifically any questionable content. For example, the description of one movie stated “Contains one use of strong language and a moderate scene of injury.”

One last thing that struck me today: I have not done a true scientific study, but my preliminary results show that EVERY SINGLE PERSON in Britain smokes. You can’t go into a restaurant without seeing a cancer stick hanging out of everyone?s mouth. There are “non-smoking sections,” but what separates the non-smoking section from the smoking section is a thick wall of nothing. I see non-smokers about as often as I see the sun, which is never.