Seat choice

Crow92

What is the criteria you would look for when choosing to sit besides someone on the the bus because there are no other free seats. would you pick gender, age, looks or what?

phasers

The dilemma is too much to handle, usually I just get off the bus.

most free space beside them

Wolfe Tone

Someone who looks happy and nice.

also


WHICH SEAT CAN I TAAAAAAAAKE

Aidric

Looks every time.

Princess Peach

Pssssshhh As if I'd take the bus with the plebs.

geetar

well it depends whether theyre kickin in the front seat or chillin in the back...

RayM

Crow92 wrote: »

would you pick gender, age, looks or what?

Size.

I've nothing against fat people, but if I sit beside one, there's a fair chance that someone will trip over my feet when they walk past.

deathrider

I always get stuck sitting beside some angry red bastards, big furious ginger fookers, no matter where I'm travelling to or from. I'm cursed, I tells ya!

Pauleta

I tend to go for position. When i think about who im sitting i take too long and its obvious what im doing. I notice that nobody sits beside me on the bus. Im usually one of the last. Im 25 with very inoffensive boyish good looks, a nice haircut, i dress well and im small so i take up little space but i always get chosen late I dont think i smell either

cml387

I'd sit beside the one who doesn't know what a tracker mortgage is.

The Floyd p

I'd sit beside the one who doesn't smell like piss

evillive

The Floyd p wrote: »

I'd sit beside the one who doesn't smell like piss

similar approach, i look for the person who smells nice, dribble dribble

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

The Floyd p wrote: »

I'd sit beside the one who doesn't smell like piss

Where, exactly, are you getting the bus to/from that only one person doesn't smell of piss, or do you live in a retirement home?

RichieC

as long as they arent shams, dont smell, arent too big for the seat or have a roudy child on their lap I'm not fussy. :pac:

Pompey Magnus

Pauleta wrote: »

Im 25 with very inoffensive boyish good looks, a nice haircut, i dress well and im small so i take up little space but i always get chosen late

You say it as if getting chosen late is a bad thing...I love keeping a free seat beside me for as long as possible.

Last time I was on the bus a woman got on and sat beside me and proceeded to fall asleep resulting in the awkward moment when I was nearly at my stop where I had give her shoulder a good shake to wake her so that I could get past her.

RayM

Pauleta wrote: »

I notice that nobody sits beside me on the bus. Im usually one of the last. Im 25 with very inoffensive boyish good looks, a nice haircut, i dress well and im small so i take up little space but i always get chosen late I dont think i smell either

I wouldn't take that kind of shit. Next time somebody walks past like that, stand up and ask them why they refused to sit next to you. If they embarrassedly ignore you (which they probably will), start shouting at them: "WELL? Am I not GOOD enough for you??? Do I fucking smell or something???"

At this point, they'll see the error of their ways, and apologetically sit beside you, safe in the knowledge that you're completely normal.

Hank_Jones

Peasants.

Pfffttt...the bus...

krudler

lol, bus.

Doublin

Upstairs down the back, hear how the lads got on in court, how much they are paying for their hash,tabs,gear at the moment & who's in for a hiding. For some reason lately, it's always girls looking to 'get' another girl.. Very odd, but these Dalkey buses are a source of very interesting banter. All the same I wouldn't like this sort of thing to spread to the rest of Dublin.

Pauleta

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

You say it as if getting chosen late is a bad thing...I love keeping a free seat beside me for as long as possible.

Last time I was on the bus a woman got on and sat beside me and proceeded to fall asleep resulting in the awkward moment when I was nearly at my stop where I had give her shoulder a good shake to wake her so that I could get past her.

Its catch 22. When you get selected there is a part of me that is chuffed but the chuffedness is removed after a few minutes and when they walk by i feel rejected but delighted i have nobody beside me. Overall im happy to get rejected, i just want to know why. Im in the demographic of a good seat partner.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Pauleta wrote: »

I tend to go for position. When i think about who im sitting i take too long and its obvious what im doing. I notice that nobody sits beside me on the bus. Im usually one of the last. Im 25 with very inoffensive boyish good looks, a nice haircut, i dress well and im small so i take up little space but i always get chosen late I dont think i smell either

They're probably worries about being mistaken for a paedophile!

purity

Crow92 wrote: »

What is the criteria you would look for when choosing to sit besides someone on the the bus because there are no other free seats. would you pick gender, age, looks or what?
I'd prefer to sit next to a guy:) but I don't care once I get a seat. Once they don't smell or talk to themselves I'll be ok

Aidric

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYYo49R_ZS0

robbie_998

downstairs down the back = feet up !

if i have to choose someone to sit next to its gonna be the other question in my head of "who would be easier to rape :pac: "

Hank_Jones

Doublin wrote: »

Upstairs down the back, hear how the lads got on in court, how much they are paying for their hash,tabs,gear at the moment & who's in for a hiding. For some reason lately, it's always girls looking to 'get' another girl.. Very odd, but these Dalkey buses are a source of very interesting banter. All the same I wouldn't like this sort of thing to spread to the rest of Dublin.

Reminds me of a time I was on the Dart and this guy I vaguely knew, well, when I say guy, I mean complete scumbag, got on with his mother and mate.
So in the four seats it's me, himself, his mate and his mother.
He then begins telling the mate all of scumbag related stories of court dates and what he is up for, who he stabbed and so on.
I'm sitting there poker faced and trying not to look anywhere but out the window.
All the time thinking how my ma would kill me if I was ever arrested,
never mind telling your mate these stories loudly on the Dart while my ma is sitting beside me.

Weird experience.
Same guy had beaten someone I knew almost to death with a hammer a few years before.

red menace

I try to avoid sitting beside people in general.

I had the following exchange a couple of weeks ago on a bus


I was getting the bus home for lunch the other day. Minding my own business listening to my mp3. An old lady sits down beside me. She starts talking to me but I dont hear because of my headphones so she pokes me til I turn around.
Her: I've been to do my taxes there was no queue
Me, Oh
Her I'm 91 I cant be queuing to do my taxes.
Me, True for you.
Her, I'm tired of living, I just want to die
Me ......
Her Won't you please pray that I die soon
Me... OK
Her, well this is my stop, Don't forget to pray for me to die
Me, I wont