Don’t Walk

City of Mists tourists make me laugh.  I know they shouldn’t;  we’re all tourists somewhere, and there are many places outside the Mysterious East where I look foolish and fit in badly.  But even so:  when you’re standing on the curb of a one-way street barely 12 feet wide, and there are no cars coming, and a street vendor on that same curb begins to push his wall-sized food cart out into the street to cross, AND he’s between you and the direction any cars would be coming from to boot, does it really make any sense to stand there dutifully waiting for the pedestrian “Walk” signal?