Thank-you, for allowing me to sit only on the very edge of the bus seat. After a long day it was a pleasure to have people push past me, bending my portfolio case and all my hard work. The only thing I care about was that your precious bag was comfy.

Bag Lady

This article appears in Nov 13-19, 2008.

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  1. So did you ask them to move the bag? Or did you sit there like a passive aggressive twink? They aren’t going to move shit if you don’t speak up.

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  2. SwampDonkey speaks the truth. You cannot complain about someone’s bad manners if you cannot be bothered to address the problem.

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  3. Something similar happened yesterday on the number 52. The bus was full when I got on at 125pm at Lacewood to go to west end mall and two seats had giant bags in them and the owner sat behind them and I ended up standing because she refused to move them so a man got up from another seat to let me sit down.

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  4. Sometimes you’re stuck on the end of the seat when there is no bag and your seat-buddy isn’t even obese. I’ve sat with skinny or average sized guys who took up half the seat with their fucking legs. You know, when they sit with their legs so far apart it’s taking up half the seat.

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  5. I prefer to stand on buses, anyway, unless I’m sure they’re clean.Once when I was on the bus, I overheard a lady say; “I think I just p!$$ed my pants.” That’s pretty gross, but it happens, people leakwhile they’re on the buses.

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