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[numerobis]

Say you have two parallel passages, and two crossings.

At the beginning, both Alice and Bob are on the Northern passage.  Alice is moving East, Bob is moving West.  They bump into each other, and decide to flip directions and take the other passage.  Alice takes the western crossing to the southern passage.  Bob takes the eastern one.  This sets them up to meet on the southern passage.  Hilarity ensues.

Of course, eventually someone gets hungry so it ends.

[Toady One]

Okay, I'll note it down.

[Footkerchief]

To be honest that sounds pretty realistic to me

[numerobis]

Happens in the loony toons all the time.  When you have intelligent people, though, there's the possibility for negotiation and / or fisticuffs.

[baq]

see also CSMA/CD - the Ethernet's way of avoiding such things. Keyword: exponential backoff.