People Watching

Yesterday I was walking to, of all places, Carnegie when I noticed two guys walking in front of me. They were dressed in normal winter attire, but one of them had a limp. Now this is nothing extraordinary--I've seen limps before. So from lack of other things to do while walking, I studied their pace waiting for the guy without a limp to step out of sync from his friend, but he never did. In fact, he walked identically to his friend, resting longer on one foot, but without a limp. So this got me to thinking they must be such close friends or spend so much time together that the friend developed a sympathy limp. I've heard of this before where, in an extreme example, a husband develops a sympathy belly while his wife is pregnant. (My roommate told me this is probably just an excuse for a man's beer belly.) Either way, it's something to think about...