Working with Other Designers

I took the bus to work this morning. It was rush hour, so I was packed in between other passengers in the very front, right by the driver. Another bus approached us from the opposite direction. The drivers made eye contact. They each lifted their hands to acknowledge each other, as if to say “Hello, I’m driving a bus, and so are you.” The buses motored along. Within ten minutes each of them would pass by another bus and the scene would repeat itself.

Cabbies do the same thing. They’ll also allow other cabbies to merge into traffic before them, which they’d never let another driver do, ever. And I imagine that bankers probably have a secret handshake when they run into each other in steam rooms. Just like Masons.