Are you a scary bus person?

Lyaiera

Do people tend to sit next to you on the bus?

I've noticed something over the past few months. For a long time I was always the last person someone sat next to on the bus. Sometimes people would even stand to avoid sitting next to me. Then, just before Christmas I had some old ladies start to sit next to me. Some of them even struck up conversation. Now it seems I'm one of the first people others sit next to on the bus. Am I just getting less menacing in my old age? Do I need to work on my scowl? Should I drop my showering from fortnightly to monthly?

Wang King

A woman struck up a conversation with me on the bus, it's all going swimmingly, she asks me my name....and then for some reason she gets up and moves to the other end of the bus..dunno why.

mikemac1

I like your poll OP!

_Kaiser_

Wang King wrote: »

A woman struck up a conversation with me on the bus, it's all going swimmingly, she asks me my name....and then for some reason she gets up and moves to the other end of the bus..dunno why.

Probably knew your gf/wife!


Myself I thankfully don't have to suffer the bus anymore but when I did I used to loathe someone sitting beside me.. usually overweight and squashed against me, some kid with overly loud headphones or someone who thought the world was coming to an end and had bought everything the shops had!

Yes I was one of "those" who had his bag on the seat next to him and would begrudgingly lift it when the bus was almost full

Agricola

Probably. I think its the scowl that my face defaults to. Same thing happens abroad, so I get less bothered by hawkers than most people. It's great.

MagicIRL

I was felt up on the 15 on the way to college a few weeks ago. I guess I'm a sexy bus person.

The_Valeyard

Shifty eyes OP, it's all in the shifty eyes.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Haven't been on a bus in years,but when I did nuns always found me extremely sexy.

Lyaiera

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Shifty eyes OP, it's all in the shifty eyes.

¬_¬

Agricola

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Probably knew your gf/wife!


Myself I thankfully don't have to suffer the bus anymore but when I did I used to loathe someone sitting beside me.. usually overweight and squashed against me, some kid with overly loud headphones or someone who thought the world was coming to an end and had bought everything the shops had!

Yes I was one of "those" who had his bag on the seat next to him and would begrudgingly lift it when the bus was almost full

Or just sit in the aisle seat and you're almost guaranteed to have the place to yourself unless someone has absolutely no where else to go. Actually that was probably my secret, aisle seat and scowl!

Billgirlylegs

MagicIRL wrote: »

I was felt up on the 15 on the way to college a few weeks ago. I guess I'm a sexy bus person.

15 (Northside) is fertile ground for the sly grope

PLL

The worst type of humans are those that sit in the seats reserved for pushchairs/wheelchairs, then when I get on the bus with my daughter in her pushchair, they don't move when they see me! Or worse still avoid eye contact with me because they don't want to move! So I cast shame upon them and shout at them telling them to move. Ignorant assholes.

I was once on a bus on my own without my daughter and witnessed a traveller woman get on with a pushchair. A lad wouldn't move out of the space when he saw her. Well I'd say he had to go to counseling after the abuse she gave him.

But seriously, how do some people lack common decency.

Gummy Panda

I was the one they avoided sitting beside until a few months ago. I guess not having as much of a moon face and taking up half the bus helped.

Oops69

PLL wrote: »

The worst type of humans are those that sit in the seats reserved for pushchairs/wheelchairs, then when I get on the bus with my daughter in her pushchair, they don't move when they see me! Or worse still avoid eye contact with me because they don't want to move! So I cast shame upon them and shout at them telling them to move. Ignorant assholes.

I was once on a bus on my own without my daughter and witnessed a traveller woman get on with a pushchair. A lad wouldn't move out of the space when he saw her. Well I'd say he had to go to counseling after the abuse she gave him.

But seriously, how do some people lack common decency.

Maybe they're focused on something else other than the 'miss centre of the universe with buggy',that's just got on , if you asked politely I'm sure they'd move once brought to their attention.

dirtyden

If I am not going far I usually prefer to stand than squash in beside someone.

Old people usually sit beside me so I must be pretty unthreatening. An old lady who started chatting to me at a bus stop even offered to allow me travel for free on her bus pass from Rathfarnham to town. I probably have a gormless rural look about me that is very unintimidating. I rarely use buses though.

Micky Dolenz

I tend to avoid the bus and have done for years, the stench of poverty is overbearing.

looking_around

Agricola wrote: »

Or just sit in the aisle seat and you're almost guaranteed to have the place to yourself unless someone has absolutely no where else to go. Actually that was probably my secret, aisle seat and scowl!

HAH

I LOVE walking up to a person sitting in the aisle seat and asking them to move in.
seat hoggers.
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I use the bus far too much OP, ime :
*coughing/scratching alot, while people pass, make them less likely to sit beside you,
*aisle seats make them less likely to ask you to move.
*Even better leaving all your stuff on the seat, people seem to feel most uncomfortable asking you to move your stuff.
*pretend you're asleep, works a charm.
*scowling with angry direct, unblinking eye contact, unnerves some people.


reading a book/your phone makes people more likely to ask you to move ( no scary eye contact perhaps?)

sitting in the inside seat also increases the chance someone will sit beside you.

oh and lastly, people who just sit beside seem to be weirder, ime, than those who ask you to move! o0

ardinn

The only time I had a conversation on the bus with a stranger was when this little stunner started blabbering on about everything and anything - really nice girl and she just wouldnt shut up! She was on her way to the boyfriends.

I would have banged seven shades out of her!!

_Kaiser_

ardinn wrote: »

The only time I had a conversation on the bus with a stranger was when this little stunner started blabbering on about everything and anything - really nice girl and she just wouldnt shut up! She was on her way to the boyfriends.

I would have banged seven shades out of her!!

Actually this reminds me of a trip down the country years ago when I got chatting to this girl on the bus.

She seemed nice enough and good fun so we swapped numbers and met up a few weeks later. I wasn't drinking as I was driving that night but she had a few as she was getting the bus home again.

At that point things rapidly went downhill .. a few drinks later and she was legless and a bad drunk to go with it. Of course, as she'd then missed her bus I couldn't leave her there so much fun ensued trying to get directions from this half-passed out one on the way.

Why I agreed to meet her again I don't know but it wasn't any better.. instead of going for a bit to eat and a movie, she dragged me round Grafton street, picked out a very expensive coat and when her card was declined at the check-out looked at me as if to say "well..??"

TL;DR : never hook-up with randomers you meet on buses!

Tearin It Up

Its me that avoids people. Or tries to.

I was sandwiched between two old guys on the bus the other day. One in front me who couldn't sit down, had to give him time, loads of time. Then some old wanker pushing up behind me who wouldn't wait for the old guy in front of me. Turned around and asked him will you get off me.

I hate the bus.

thelad95

I usually give a stern stare not necessarily making eye contact but just stern enough so they know that I'm probably not going to be the kind of person who they can have some deep philisophical conversation with like 'Jaysus aren't the buses great? I'm on me way into do a bit of shopping, Christ it's awful cold today, Do ya hear the government is going to raise water charges again? I tell ya there will be riots' You know the type of person, greying hair, salt of the earth personality.

Just go away, I'm not interested.