Disruption

The space I disrupted was the Union. When I observed the Union, I saw that, unless with a group, people mostly keep to themselves and don’t generally interact with others. This is especially true in the line for Alpine bagels. For my experiment, I decided to cut the people in line for Alpine. I also included a few of my friends in this experiment, seeing as there are only so many bagels I can buy. In this experiment, we would be testing if the people in line would step out of their comfort zone and out of the norm to interact with me and my friends when we cut in line. To start the experiment, we would just walk up to the line, especially when it was long, and casually slip in around the middle. Initially, those around me just stared at me for a while, probably trying to decide if I had actually just cut in line. The reaction of those around us varied. Mostly, those in line just politely told us that they were already in line and asked if we would move back, to which we kindly obliged. Once, the people in line either didn’t notice, or decided not to mention it. Overall, the people standing in line stared and, when they felt like their bagel-obtaining rights had been breached, asked if we could kindly go to the back of the line.