A Kingdom for My Chair!
Good. Today's biscuit? Etiquette on mass transit.
If you are fortunate enough to live in a city with a public bus, train, or trolley, smart money says you've ridden it at least once. Were you courteous? Was anyone else?
Aside from the occasional lunatic tourist and a one-time/first-time curiosity, I submit to you that no one rides the bus for fun. Oh, some of us enjoy it; I don't deny that. I just know we all have places to be.
At the beginning /middle /end of a workday, I get that no one is happy (or dare I say chipper) about being on a bus with 30 or 40 strangers who may or may not have serious B.O.. My current conveyance is "home" to a weirdo who takes off his shoes, curls in a ball, and mutters to himself for the entire trip. I can both understand and relate to the urge to sit alone.
Who wants to sit beside Jackass Q Stranger?
That's the problem! Take your window seat! Claim an aisle chair, but unless you paid the fair (x2) you only get one seat!
Every morning and every afternoon, I see people take one seat and lay their crap in another. In a mostly empty bus, sure - okay; in a bus with a SEATING capacity of 38-40 and an average of 35-50 riders:
a) Use the luggage rack
b) Hold it in your lap
c) Put it on the floor
d) Leave it at home.
I jotted this entry LIVE via my handheld and at this moment (as I write this), there are nine people standing, and four seats held up by people's crap.
Admittedly, some people prefer to stand on the bus. My night/day-ride is a 128-minute marathon with stop #1 being 30 or so minutes out; I doubt they're standing for the love of it.
Now, I'm not ranting as a stander. Oh no, this Deadman is sitting pretty as ususal. I'm stop#2 in the morning & the last stop at night. Essentially, I am one of the first six on and to-date: the last one off.
FYI: no hypocrisy tonight, kids: I don't use two seats on the bus.
Before somebody climbs on their high horse, let me say: this not to the morbidly obese who sit on both seats. They get enough flack and grief without me adding to it.
But tomorrow or whenever you’re on the bus again, if it starts filling up, consider not being a jack ass and just use one seat? Thanks.
If you are fortunate enough to live in a city with a public bus, train, or trolley, smart money says you've ridden it at least once. Were you courteous? Was anyone else?
Aside from the occasional lunatic tourist and a one-time/first-time curiosity, I submit to you that no one rides the bus for fun. Oh, some of us enjoy it; I don't deny that. I just know we all have places to be.
At the beginning /middle /end of a workday, I get that no one is happy (or dare I say chipper) about being on a bus with 30 or 40 strangers who may or may not have serious B.O.. My current conveyance is "home" to a weirdo who takes off his shoes, curls in a ball, and mutters to himself for the entire trip. I can both understand and relate to the urge to sit alone.
Who wants to sit beside Jackass Q Stranger?
That's the problem! Take your window seat! Claim an aisle chair, but unless you paid the fair (x2) you only get one seat!
Every morning and every afternoon, I see people take one seat and lay their crap in another. In a mostly empty bus, sure - okay; in a bus with a SEATING capacity of 38-40 and an average of 35-50 riders:
a) Use the luggage rack
b) Hold it in your lap
c) Put it on the floor
d) Leave it at home.
I jotted this entry LIVE via my handheld and at this moment (as I write this), there are nine people standing, and four seats held up by people's crap.
Admittedly, some people prefer to stand on the bus. My night/day-ride is a 128-minute marathon with stop #1 being 30 or so minutes out; I doubt they're standing for the love of it.
Now, I'm not ranting as a stander. Oh no, this Deadman is sitting pretty as ususal. I'm stop#2 in the morning & the last stop at night. Essentially, I am one of the first six on and to-date: the last one off.
FYI: no hypocrisy tonight, kids: I don't use two seats on the bus.
Before somebody climbs on their high horse, let me say: this not to the morbidly obese who sit on both seats. They get enough flack and grief without me adding to it.
But tomorrow or whenever you’re on the bus again, if it starts filling up, consider not being a jack ass and just use one seat? Thanks.