Most people I know dislike public transport, I am inclined to agree, it is dirty, crowded and inefficient as well as the most costly method of travel around our capital.
But sometimes, and this is very rare the trip becomes enjoyable, regardless of how many sardines get crammed into the can.
Why do you all cry out?
Well it is really simple, if you a people watcher, not pervert psycho who letches mind, someone who like to see the differences in people and what interesting behavioural patterns can be discerned; you will get to see some really nice or interesting people.
For example this morning I am presented with our regular gaggle of people, plus a few one timers.
So for the regulars, there is always one passenger who intrigues me. It is a she and she sits there holding her jesus phone about 10 inches form her face watching some program/tv show and makes faces. Sometimes its smirks, sometimes smiles all with an excess of frowning; while occasionally taking furtive glances at all the people round her.
I find this very amusing, for a number of reasons, why on earth would you want to watch anything on a jesus phone on the train and who on earth watches comedy at that time in the morning? Most people are just sitting there dreaming of their next cup of coffee; never mind summon the intellect to watch a TV programme.
The other interesting fact that I can discern, for all the train regulars, everyone has a preferred seat. So we all scramble in order to get said seats. It is very funny if I am honest, admittedly most of the regulars always gets seats as we all live so far out of the capital that we have no problem with sitting down for a long commute.
There is another regular on the train, who starts at my station and changes once with me and the get off to take a third train. This poor man takes at least 3 trains every day and every day he sits in exactly the same seat and nothing changes, he never reads the paper, never listens to a jesus phone or a zombie machine, just sits there half asleep smirking.
Then you have the larger lady that takes the same route as I everyday but refuses to talk to anyone, and just buries her face in her book all morning and phone people using her new model jesus phone.
Finally the gaggle of working mums and pregnant ladies who huddle and talk all the way into town and refuse to acknowledge anyone else unless they are pregnant…..
Just think this is just what I see from my station, what else you can see from yours? Why do you not all have a look see and tell me what fun and joy you can derive from the morning trip in to work and the homeward trip.
If there are people you see every day then I challenge you to say hello to them and see if they will talk to you.
Let me know of your successes and failures.
Signing off
Lemon Tree Man
It is mostly for long distance commuters of public transport like LTM do they get the opportunity of seeing regulars on their daily trip :)… These are the people who your
ReplyDeletetrain ride more interesting and in turn, who knows, you might also be one of the interesting “subjects” for other discerning people watching regulars too :P
Just so you know, LOTS of people watch comedies, dramas and serials on their jesus phone
during their train rides…it’s the very same logic as the people who are trying
to catch up on their emails and news fixes in order to maximize their timeslots….if
watching comedies in the morning makes your day a good start, why not, yes? J …. Ahh….wait till LTM gets his jesus phone and THEN he will not be the one amused becos he will be part of the jesus phone fold ;P
In my part of the world, jesus phone reigns supreme on train rides… 11 out of 10 commuters
are either listening to it, watching the above mentioned, reading or playing games on it… so save for the occasional completely oblivious musically challenged foreign talent doing a bollywood dance at the pole handle near the
train door during peak hours, self talking strange uncles and awful money wasting “Be gracious and Love Your Ride” train campaign ditties, much of what I see are people and more people being engrossed with their jesus phone – which definitely
One thing i've discovered is that unfortunately peak hour train rides in the morning are not very user friendly for mommies with huge bulky prams.. They kinda stick out like a sore thumb amidst the worker bees crowd...in my opinion, is much more less interesting than LTM’s ride to work ;)
PS: this comment was made via the jesus phone on a morning train ride to work :)