Public Transportation Etiquette

Really people? Doesn't everyone know the rule of PTE? For some reason people feel as if they can pour there heart out to me. Little did they know that I like to post the poured heart all over this web page. Just the other day, I hoped on the bus and there was not really any available room to sit down. However a girl, who I'm guessing is a total tweaker, asked me to sit next to her, for she had a been sitting on two seats. She moved over. Without wasting anytime she informed me that the reason she asked me to take the seat beside her was to prevent odd men from sitting next to her. Well the men who were standing in front of us were clean, quite good looking, and quiet. Did I mention quiet. I did catch a couple of pity looks from the man who wasn't listening to his iPod. For twenty minutes we had, for the most part, a one way conversation about, how college is the same as high school but with cigarettes, and the debate on whether on her way to get her prescription she should also drop by target and get pants that were on sale. Apparently the pants the woman was wearing were stolen by another woman and when they were finally returned to their rightful owner, the woman found holes in them. Oh god forbid a pair of cotton sweat pants got a couple cigarette burns in them. I understand that they might not be pouring her heart out to me, but this other dude, a few days before this incident was telling me how he found out that day, that his girlfriend was cheating on him. Seriously man? Did you really think I needed to know that. More importantly, what did you think I could do about it? Did you think I could call her and tell her she was crazy? Tell her you're crazy and she should have dumped your ass months ago? 

Wow, I really didn't think I was going to go into that much detail. Forgive my run-on sentence. With that said, people please respect the PTE. Just be courteous I guess. Would you want people striking up a conversation with you? If yes, well, I'm sorry to all you sit next to.