Because my love for Public Transportation is NON-EXISTING there are several things that bother me about it. However, there is one thing that takes the cake of exasperating things that people do on a train or bus. Let me just tell my story:
This morning I choose to make a bagel to demolish on my journey to work. (Usually I'd just bring the luke warm bagel to heat, butter, and eat it in the Cafe at work but I'm working in a different building today so planning ahead is a must). So, I get on one of the, basically empty cars on the train and sit down.
SN: I'm not sure about how other people plan their metro rides. But me...I'm a very strategic planner when it comes to riding public transportation.
1. I get on the car that I believe will stop right by the escalator.
2. I sit in one of the open seats next to a door that doesn't have anyone sitting in front of it (I hate sliding into a seat and sitting behind someone).
3. The stop before mine, I make my way to the door, not to have to sift through slow moving pedestrians.
4. I would memorize which doors open when and if there isn't a decent seat open I'll stand by the door that opens the least. (Not to be brushed pass when others are entering and exiting)
5. I'll choose to sit next to and empty seat before I sit next to a passenger...thought this was on everyone's list, SMH.
I sit in a seat with no one next to me and proceed to eat my, now very cold, buttered bagel. It was decent until this grown man gets on the, still pretty empty, car and sits right next to me! This wouldn't have been such a big issue if the two seats directly across from us weren't empty...Like what was going through his mind??? I'm eating my bagel dude and the last thing I want is some towering man to sit right up on me, (because you and I both know there is little to NO WIGGLE ROOM when these seats), and breath all over my bagel.
I was LIVID!
I thought very hard about moving to the very appealing empty seats in front of me but I just knew that the moment I moved into the very tempting seat the train would have reached it's next destination and with my luck some unfortunate smelling derelict would have plopped down right next to me forcing me to give up on my bagel. And just as I predicted a beautiful full figured woman sat down for just a few seconds by herself only to be followed by a greasy, wet(because of the rain) homeless man. He started off sitting on the edge of the seat because he was just as thick as the woman already sitting. However, slowly but surely he slid back into the seat. LOL. Clearly uncomfortable, the beautiful lady politely (although there's no polite way to get up and move once someone sits next to you) gets up and moves clear across the train. She sits facing away from the guy. Outta site, outta mind I guess. LOL, this was one of the worst public transportation experiences of my life but I sure am glad I didn't move to that other seat. ;-)
If there is one thing that I absolutely HATE!!!!...is when I'm sitting/standing and there is plenty of room elsewhere. Like...you don't want to have your own space too? Why come and be all up in my face? That's when I get to coughing and snorting like I have the bubonic plague. I get the look of disgust but I now have them out of my face.
ReplyDeleteLMAO, I guess I should've tried that. Good look, I will do that the very next time it happens to me. Or....you know what else works??? When you continue to fidget. Lol. This guy got so peeved this morning at me that he moved. I only reached into my pocket twice. I was trying to get comfortable and he sat his big butt right next to me before I was finished getting situated. So fidgetting, is another one that will get someone out of your space. SMH it's sad that you have to do things like this, all for the sake of comfort.
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