As a quiet rider, I always find myself on my morning route to sit next to a window and consciously move my personal belongings out of the way in case someone would like the seat next to me. Oh look, here comes a fellow rider now!
Feel free to make fun of the illustrations, I obviously didn't pursue my dreams of going to art school.
Being a conscious rider, I like it when my fellow riders are also conscious and curteous. Now what happens next I can tell you has happened to me on more than one occasion and I have never been guilty of doing this. Maybe because I'm usually one of the first people on the bus in the morning, but I like to think I would never do this in any circumstance.
Notice how she turns and her ass becomes rather sizable. She may have been looking at her cellular telephone device, I'm not sure, as I was deeply immersed in my book (which was awesome! The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom), and didn't notice.
The unthinkable happens:
What the ever living hell?! How do you not notice there is a person sitting where you just half way/ass only popped my personal space bubble?! I was just reading a book, minding my business. I know I'm a curvy gal, but come on, I don't take up 2 bus seats of room. Your ass should be nowhere near my chin to stomach area.
All of this results in this:
After this horrifying occurrence, the gal laughs and apologizes. And me being a quiet bus rider says, "It's cool." When I really want to ask her why she feels the need to sit that way. This is most certainly not cool but I really don't want to start a confrontation, I just want to get back I my book. As I stated earlier this is not the first time this has happened to me. It has been both men and women, and a diverse group at that.
So what is a girl to do? Before you suggest that I'm being hit on, there is no further conversation so I don't think that's the case. Perhaps all of these folks think they have amazing backsides that they have to show it to the first person the come across? I'm not sure, but I don't like it one bit.
