Thursday, 22nd August 2024
A kind of local bus code
It has been some time Since I moved to my current address.
Only recently have I finally started to sit there first
if there are two seats available in the back on the buses I usually use.
Previously, I used to like to sit in a single seat near the exit.
But apparently, where I live now,
the single seats near the exit are left empty
for the elderly and other less healthy people.
In fact, that may have been how bus seats were used everywhere.
I just hadn't realised it.
No wonder, when I was going to band practice on the bus with my big instrument
and settled in a one-seater, I was stared at.
Recently, I attended an event in one of the regions and took a shuttle bus.
When they reached their destination,
they got out of their seats in the order of those in front of them
and disembarked in a very orderly manner indeed.
I had never seen such a scene in my life and was very surprised.
When we arrived, I assumed that passengers would rush selfishly to the exit.
Apparently, I need to reconsider my bus manners.
Apart from that, when I visited the South Indian city of Chennai
at the beginning of 2002 or so, I also took a local bus there.
Passengers relayed their fares from hand to hand to the conductor in the crowded bus.
Men sat in the right-hand row, while women were on the left as they are considered unclean.
I was standing on that bus and someone groped my bottom.
A woman nearby noticed this and invited me to come over.
In the bus, sitting women helped standing women with their luggage on their laps,
and I felt that women helped each other.
These episodes should be mentioned on this website in the past.
But I have erased them and am writing here again.
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