I stare out the window, to avoid eye contact with people. I silently fume against designers who’ve obviously never experienced social anxiety, and hence don’t understand the significance of seats which face earth other.
I sit and stare out the window. And if I’m in a bus with that advertising mesh over the windows, I gaze placidly at the blurry mash of colors, wondering what the world outside that window looks like at normal resolution.
I hate the window advertisements. I hate them. I hate that the people being advertised at aren’t bus riders. I hate that my window is secondary to their new exhibit at the MOMA or whatever rich people horseshit gets advertised on the sides of buses.
Out in the world is the only place I can put my eyes that isn’t offensive somehow. And they cover it up, pretending like those little pinholes make it okay.
I hate the seats facing each other as well. The worst one for me was when I was in some other country on vacation and got on a train. These two other guys got on and sat across from me. They were rather interesting looking and seemed like they were on something, it would have been easy to stare, but I didn’t know their temperament so did everything I could to look out the window and pretend they didn’t exist. Then they started talking to me, and were persistent about it. They were asking me for a knife I think. I didn’t have one. He was trying to open a bag of pretzels or something. He ripped it open and they fell on the floor. He then proceeded to spend the rest of the train ride picking up pretzels off the floor and eating them, while I tried to pretend all this stuff wasn’t happening.
I prefer the seats facing each other, but only because sitting sideways to the direction of motion somehow makes me less car sick.
Definitely still headphones in, eyes down. Pretend I’m focused on my phone or knitting, even if all I can think about is nausea, because i definitely don’t want another awkward bus conversation. Make sure the knitting is contained on my lap and doesn’t spill into anyone else’s seat.
the busses were less crowded post covid here, and the solution seems to be fewer busses so it’s more “efficient”. which is awkward when using it to commute and my options go from “10 minutes early, on time, 10 minutes late” to “30 minutes early or 20 minutes late”.
It’s funny you say that about sitting sideways because I prefer to sit forward for the motion control. Somehow the side to side stabilization is more uncomfortable for me than the forward and back as the bus starts and stops.
I stare out the window, to avoid eye contact with people. I silently fume against designers who’ve obviously never experienced social anxiety, and hence don’t understand the significance of seats which face earth other.
I sit and stare out the window. And if I’m in a bus with that advertising mesh over the windows, I gaze placidly at the blurry mash of colors, wondering what the world outside that window looks like at normal resolution.
I hate the window advertisements. I hate them. I hate that the people being advertised at aren’t bus riders. I hate that my window is secondary to their new exhibit at the MOMA or whatever rich people horseshit gets advertised on the sides of buses.
Out in the world is the only place I can put my eyes that isn’t offensive somehow. And they cover it up, pretending like those little pinholes make it okay.
I hate the seats facing each other as well. The worst one for me was when I was in some other country on vacation and got on a train. These two other guys got on and sat across from me. They were rather interesting looking and seemed like they were on something, it would have been easy to stare, but I didn’t know their temperament so did everything I could to look out the window and pretend they didn’t exist. Then they started talking to me, and were persistent about it. They were asking me for a knife I think. I didn’t have one. He was trying to open a bag of pretzels or something. He ripped it open and they fell on the floor. He then proceeded to spend the rest of the train ride picking up pretzels off the floor and eating them, while I tried to pretend all this stuff wasn’t happening.
I’m pretty sure no one likes the seats that face each other. It’s just a design that allows the bus to have more seats than otherwise possible.
Busses are so packed where I live, my real issue is the city not providing more busses and not the seats facing each other
I prefer the seats facing each other, but only because sitting sideways to the direction of motion somehow makes me less car sick.
Definitely still headphones in, eyes down. Pretend I’m focused on my phone or knitting, even if all I can think about is nausea, because i definitely don’t want another awkward bus conversation. Make sure the knitting is contained on my lap and doesn’t spill into anyone else’s seat.
the busses were less crowded post covid here, and the solution seems to be fewer busses so it’s more “efficient”. which is awkward when using it to commute and my options go from “10 minutes early, on time, 10 minutes late” to “30 minutes early or 20 minutes late”.
It’s funny you say that about sitting sideways because I prefer to sit forward for the motion control. Somehow the side to side stabilization is more uncomfortable for me than the forward and back as the bus starts and stops.