TubEttiquette

The train’s pretty crowded for an early journey. A black (and another white) girl had their bags on the seatnext to them. I went up to the nearer one - Black Bag Girl - and she removed her bags. I sat down next to her, minding my own business. but then she started adjusting her tabloid-sized newspaper and shoving the page/corner into my personal space. I was deliberating whether to say something when White Bag Girl alighted the train, leaving 2 empty seats next to me.

So I made to move (to the extreme end) just as another lady opposite made to move to the end seat and I was happy just seated away from Blabk Bag Girl, and I said to Carriage Crossing Lady, ‘You can sit there if you want to,” but she declined and saqnk back into her original seat so I’m in the end seat now.

Apparently in India it’s a mad scramble and with fists and elbows to get a seat on the train, however once seats have been “won,” everyone is most polite and civil, a negligible, accidental nudge will bring with it a thousand apologies.

Deaf Dude just plonked his hard of hearing ass next to me. I know heaks deaf because I can hear his thumping music from his non in-ear earphones. It really amazes me how little though people in the tube spare for fellow travellers. My dad says that this is characteristic of large cities. Yeah, i suppose. I also think it’s about people thinking that they’re more important than everyone else.