- Gender
- Age
- Race/Ethnicity/etc.
I'll answer first: I tend to seek out people near my own age (or older), female (they generally don't sprawl all over and take up extra space like males often do), and usually Caucasian.
So, where are you sitting?
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Who Do You Sit By?
Let's say you have to take a bus for about a 30-minute commute. This hypothetical bus has two seats on both sides of the center aisle, with an infinite (for the purpose of the main question) number of rows. (Even though the bus is infinitely long, it doesn't take you an eternity to traverse from the front to the back.) When you board the bus, every row has two people already seated, one on each side of the aisle -- meaning you must sit next to someone. Each person is different, based on the following factors:
I'll answer first: I tend to seek out people near my own age (or older), female (they generally don't sprawl all over and take up extra space like males often do), and usually Caucasian.
So, where are you sitting?
I'll answer first: I tend to seek out people near my own age (or older), female (they generally don't sprawl all over and take up extra space like males often do), and usually Caucasian.
So, where are you sitting?
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I look for someone reading... since that's what I'll be doing as well. They probably won't try to talk to me. Also I try to sit near the back exit so when my stop gets there I can get out of the bus easily.
I look for someone who looks like they have bathed recently and is otherwise occupied with reading or listening to music or something. I try to avoid the mom who is dealing with a squirming child on their lap.
Someone like me, which means um, 30's, female. But barring that, women before men. Race rarely has anything to do with it, but I am in the minority on the bus, so if I got that picky, it would be pointless.
Someone reading or listening to music and staring out the window (in other words, someone who looks willing to spend the next 30 minutes pretending we're NOT in one another's personal space). Someone who's not overlapping the empty seat. Preferably female.
Some combination of the above - recently bathed, preferably reading or sitting with headphones (and NOT singing along), not overlapping the seat, not on the phone. Also not in a business suit - they think they're so above you. It's hard to have someone look down their nose at you WHILE being obnoxiously loud on the phone for 30 minutes.
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