Maybe it’s because I’m inner-city but I find it so intimidating.

• I’m at waist height to everyone else so I can’t see at a distance in case things get hairy

• large crowds kinda subconsciously behave like fluid dynamics, ebbing and flowing around obstructions and fast and then slow etc, and I’m a rock blocking the stream

• I try to stick to the curbs in case I need to leave but inevitably get smushed into the main flow and it’s hard to move diagonally against the grain back to the curb