-
Subway
Let’s just assume for a moment that you’re a reasonably groomed, fairly clean individual who doesn’t have anything strange — like a third eye or something off-putting like that. You take the subway to and from work each day. Okay, cool.
Subway seating is a very exhausting thing. You want to avoid sitting directly next to someone but it’s perfectly excusable to do so if there’s no where else to sit. Okay, we get it. It’s kind of an unspoken rule.
Some of us prefer to stand if given the choice of that or sitting directly next to another person without an empty buffer. A three-seated bench comfortably holds two people in this day and age.
But what about when you manage to find a seat at an empty three-seated bench on the subway? You’re like the king of that bench. The train stops at the next stop and the doors open. A handful of people enter the car and you have no problem with one of them sharing your bench with you. You’ve even prepared for the possibility that two people may sit.
But no one does.
Here you are, sitting alone on the subway, while other passengers gleefully stand, gripping the poles for dear life instead of taking a seat near you. What gives, right? Why doesn’t anyone want to sit with you?
It’s a strange phenomenon. Allow its occurrences to brighten your day with its absurdity. Someone stood just to avoid sitting with you.
