Saturday, January 21, 2006

weird people on buses

ok been meaning to write about this particular issue for ages and now i have the time to do so.

it seems that i attract weird people on public transport. especially buses. i hate it when strangers come into physical contact with me. like when they sit too near. get the hell away from me! touch not! sheesh. there's this thing called personal space ok. don't try to get in uninvited! both men and women. especially men. the ones who sit with their legs damn wide apart like they've got the biggest balls in the world. also the ones who sit damn close and breathe loudly. idiots.

just now, a random stranger on the bus actually spoke to me ok. she was sitting behind me. i was happily listening to my (my mother's) radio, turned up really loud and destroying my eardrums, when i felt a tap on my shoulder. i'm like, apesey. then she asked me, 'excuse me, do u know what reckless means?' so i told her. she had these pieces of yellow paper with red chinese characters on them and was reading the english out to me so that i could explain to her. apparently they were fortunes from her temple. uh ok... so she went on and on. at this point i was only a few stops from home sweet home so i was like, yeah, uh huh, ok. then she whipped out this pic of her and her bf and how her aunt didn't approve but she just knew that he was worth it and she was being stubborn, etc etc. thank god my stop was next. so i beat a hasty exit.

what the hell? i would say that talking to strangers and telling them your life story is reckless. her fortune told her not to be reckless. there it goes.

1 comment:

ana said...

Hey, I like it when strangers talk to me on the bus. Like friendly talk ah, not like they're trying to be funny. I think it's the way life shd be!

But yeah, understand completely abt ppl sitting or standing too close. Smtms I feel the urge to push them over, haha... But that wd create a scene and I hate scenes.