I find whenever I’m on public transport I start to people watch. It’ not so much that I deliberately set out to look at other people when I board the train but public transport really seems to lend itself to this activity. Perhaps it’s because everyone tries so hard not to be noticed when they board.
They scramble on, avoiding eye contact with anyone and quickly shuffle their way through the isles to find a seat, plop down, pull out their reading material or plug in their ipods, and remain static for the rest of the trip. Or you’ve got the people who for one reason or another have forgotten to bring anything to keep them occupied so they stare intently out the window for the duration of their journey. Anything to keep them from thinking about the filth they are currently sitting in.
I mean seriously you can’t help but wonder what kind of disease you might pick up from touching the handrail or opening the door, let alone what is potentially hidden in the cushion of the very seat your sitting on….your mind starts racing like the jaws sound track right before she gets dragged underwater by the shark. At any point your cushion is going to leap off the chair and devour you whole.
The really scary thing with that of course is that no-one would even know you were gone, because as you well know your fellow passengers are desperately trying to ignore everyone else around them. Comforting thought isn’t it?
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