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    6月16日

    'Cause I'm selfish, and you're sorry

    After reading Iain's blog on the distinct lack of communication on buses, I started to think about it. So many of us really do do whatever we can, just to avoid the slight possibility that someone actually might talk to us on the bus.
     
    I know I do. Phone, book, magazine, i-river and if all else fails, an instruction manual. I do. If I don't have any distractions, I sit and stare out of the window and just smile standoffishly to acknowledge anyone talking to me.
     
    The thing is, I'm not at my most sociable on the bus. Most of the time, even when people I know get on, I pretend not to see them.
     
    It's because the bus is MY time. It's the only time during the day that is utterly, completely and selfishly MINE. I don't want to share it. I don't have to share it. And I bloody well won't share it.
     
    I'm free to be alone with my thoughts, or the lack of, conversationally, and noone, not one person, can tell me that I should be "doing something." Because I'm on a bus, what else could I possibly be doing?
     
    We were talking about it in biology, apparently it's the same story on trains. Granted, the majority of people have different reasons behind their behaviour - they're just trying to avoid The Crazies.
     
    I came to thinking about the absurd lengths that I've actually gone to, just to avoid talking to someone.
    "Pardon, mais je ne comprends pas parce que je suis francaise." + batting of the eyelashes is the most frequent. Although, should anyone actually turn around and speak French back, I'd be buggered.
     
    Diving behind buildings, avoiding eye-contact, running around corners, pretending to be knee deep in highly intellectual conversation, or at least an absorbing one.
     
    All tactics that I have implicated, and am likely to implicate again, just to avoid a quick chat.
     
    You'd think I was unsociable, wouldn't you?
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    Aaron发表:
    Buses are just so awkward... it's the thought that I'm being packed into a mobile human sardine tin that makes me feel somewhat uncomfortable. In fact, crowds in general make me uncomfortable because of the ever-present threat of mob-mentality taking over and getting caught up in a mass of insane humans who, for a brief instant, forget that they are individuals and are swept away in the hysteria. For instance, what happened at the opening of that IKEA store a while back is proof of how crazy mobs can become- people were trampled to the ground, all in the name of affordable flat-pack furniture.
     
    What a strange world we live in.
     
    6 月 23 日
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    Behind the Facade 发表:
    Bless your little cotton socks for all the comments.
     
    So early in the morning and bravely de-caffinated even.
     
    I just don't do people. Dogs are better anyway.
    6 月 17 日
    Karishma发表:
    I love my iPod. Especially when there are other people around.
    6 月 17 日
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    Iain 发表:
    I feel so honoured: my humble self and my innane ramblings initiated significant thought in the mind of a fellow human being, and provided sufficient inspiration to drive them to blogging.
     
    I feel suddenly all warm and fuzzy.
     
    Well, not really, but...
     
    Anyway, after a few comments thrust in my direction regarding the content of said Bus-blog, I feel the need to set the record straight:
     
    I don't believe I ever said that I wanted people to suiddenly start initiating mindless conversation with total strangers just for the sheer heck of it.
     
    I do, however, think that a generally more sociable world would be of benefit to us all, but in these particular circumstances I think bubble-dom is perfectly justifiable.
     
    Everybody needs their own time, and public transport is a grand opportunity for that.
     
    My blog was just the culmination of reflections on a topic that briefly flitted through my head - ironically, while I was sat on a bus; looking out of the window into the middle-distance, sporting a glazed, emotionally neutral expression, and fiddling with my phone.
     
    I too am Bubble-Man. And I like it that way.
     
    I just shared my thoughts from the other perspective - in the interests of balance, like.
     
    xXx
     
    And muchos kudos for spelling my name correctly. So many just forget, and blithely assume that it's spelt the silly English way. 'Nuff respect for not doing that.
    6 月 16 日
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    Flix 发表:
    "Diving behind buildings, avoiding eye-contact, running around corners, pretending to be knee deep in highly intellectual conversation, or at least an absorbing one."

    Me and my sister have a set-in-stone conversation that we have everytime  we want to avoid having to talk or chance meet an aquaintance. You know if either one of us starts talking about Lucy's Dog That Jumped Over The Wall, it suddenly becomes Incredibly Interesting Conversation...so sorry, I didn't see you there...

    6 月 16 日
    Liam发表:
    Yeah, but to be fair, it's a damn sight better than initiating conversation with a stranger, that gets you FAR more weird looks than being in bubbleland.
    I have to actively avoid mundane conversation a lot of the time with my iPod and stratified avoidance techniques, considering that I live in a small village and I also work at the Pub/Restaurant thing, so there are a lot of old people I have to actively avoid to prevent being called by the wrong name and be engaged in a delightful conversation about anything ranging from the weather to their dog.
    Anyhow, I've found a new thief of time, and its name is 'Insaniquarium', it's not 'procrastination', it's feeding virtual fish!
    Christ, 18 and obsessed with a crappy web game, how bleak...
     
    Anyhow, toodleoo!
     
    (nice blog btw)
    6 月 16 日
    phill发表:
    i am total personal bubble man on public transport.
    Music in ears and either reading or writing.
    Its great.
    Though i do talk. not to people, but i have a bad knack of singing whats on my mp3 player :-s
    so i guess effectively in not wanting the crazies to sit next to me... i become one of them :-D
    6 月 16 日

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