Summary: Traveling with a group can be exhausting. There’s always a danger that you’ll end up trapped for hours in a store or museum that no one wants to be at, because you’re all politely waiting for each other to finish browsing. It’s a form of the Abilene paradox, where everyone goes along with a bad plan to please each other. In this case, it happens because we’re not used to telling people “I’m ready to go, but I don’t have to go.
