i understand that people are quite literally hot headed in this weather. and it doesn't help when the train is 30 mins late, and a HUGE impatient, office crowd has consistently formed by now to board the next subway. and of course everybody is late. so when the train finally comes, i enter without getting stampeded. now, normally i avoid sitting close to anybody because like any other need-my-own-space healthy-phobia driven American populace, i have acclimated to this way of life. very much unlike the Calcutta subway riders where people could kill each other for a seat! my intention of taking the seat next to this woman in this two seater was purely to make room for another person to stand. and there was no amount of bodily attachment at the arms or wherever! we were both not quite all that fat. but my neighbor took it upon herself to educate me on mannerisms, "you know you should have at least had the manners to say excuse me can I take the seat"! so in response i had to say, "i'm sorry i did not realize you could be that selfish and unaccommodating. i was making room for someone to stand because it's so crowded." of course she decided that i was a "bitch." so i rose to the occasion of pointing her the anomaly in her observation, "clearly you are. you are the one barking for no reason." the logic of which, she did not appreciate. nice start to the day, i say! clearly however, we have developed a curious sense of personal space.
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