he did not have to think ; he knew , and he ran out of the store onto the street , he ran onto the empty sidewalk and stood , and the group of people at the tv set , seeing him and the repairman running , began to run , too , in different directions , some of them across the street , out into traffic , some of them in circles , some of them away in a straight line , as if each of them saw something different , as if it was not the same thing happening to any two of them .