piddlefarting

wow. you'd think we don't like people much

brownsugar said:

i freakin LOVE people, i just don't like having to pull a dozen of them out of my butt whenever i walk down the freakin block!

wait, that didn't sound right

Americans seem to need more space than people in other countries. It's weird how someone can just be close but it feels like they're touching you almost.

NDRU said:

oh, that's a whole 'nother thread but that BURNS MY ASS TO A CRISP!!!!

Anx said:

Yeah that's right next to "People walking together like a brick wall on the sidewalk so you can't pass them!"

..and for the record, there was an actual "package on leg" moment....

reneGade20 said:

oh, you repressed americans!

Why is it when I go to a movie and it's not very crowded, INVARIABLY some schmoes always have to come sit two seats away, or right behind us - even though there's a WHOLE ROOM of seats from which to choose?

Or when I'm waiting for a train and I'm the only person on the platform and then someone comes down and has to stand RIGHT NEXT TO ME, as if I had the secret for the perfect waiting spot or something.

Today at lunch, I was sitting in an EMPTY CAFETERIA eating my lunch and a group of people come in and one of them says "this looks like a good table!" and they of course sit RIGHT NEXT TO ME in a big ass empty cafeteria.

What is this about?!? I mean, I'm not the world's most eager people-person, but come on. Isn't it courteous to give people a polite amount of space when you're SWIMMING in space to begin with? Are these people trying to be my friend? Or do they think I'm going to protect them? I don't understand the motives. It's like some form of advanced stupidity that I can't wrap my head around.

INSIGHTS PLEASE.

i move away when somsone crowds me. i'm at that age where i no longer care if people think i'm weird so i'll pick my ass up and find another seat in the theater, the bus, the store, wherever.

if someone STILL doesn't get it i will politely ask them to please give me some space. folks are usually so shocked by my request that they freeze where they are and either way it works.

XxAxX said:

don't you ever just want to ask them sometimes?

"just out of curiosity...in this WHOLE BIG PLACE, why did you have to pick a spot RIGHT NEXT TO ME?"

i keep trying to find a way to phrase this question without sounding like a monumental-er prick.

reneGade20 said:

oh, you repressed americans!

NDRU said:

I reserve the right to CHOOSE the appropriate time and place for "package on leg" moments....thank YOU very much....

You know you can always say "That's not a good place to sit". When questioned, simply say you have a "Spooky feeling". They'll move...trust me.

superspaceboy said:

that only works when you remember to carry a log with you.

brownsugar said:

i've learned to do that. it's part of growing a good urban armor.

but so is watching where you're standing around piddlefarting! grrrr

Anx said:

I call it nerdleing.

As in, "Could you people go nerdle in a corner? As opposed to nerdleing in a walkway/stairway/driveway/inmyway? Thanks."

People that want to be near people definitely confuse & bother me, too

I should add that this week I had to wait at the top of the stairs while my co-workers finished their conversation on the stairs.

OH MY GOD

so i went to the gym this morning and all the ellipticals were being used, so i did my other work out stuff then waited for one to get free and FINALLY someone finished, and while i was doing my little cardio thing everyone else finished and i was all by myself...then, wouldn't you know it, in a ROW FULL OF UNUSED MACHINES, some lady waddled right up and started using the machine RIGHT NEXT TO ME, and she freakin REEKED of prince matchabelli!

i need to go out in public in a hazmat suit or one of those jackets saying "keep back 40 feet" or whatever those fire department parkas say.

Anx said:

Yeah that's right next to "People walking together like a brick wall on the sidewalk so you can't pass them!"

NDRU said:

If space is limited or tight, like on a bus or train, then I can deal with it...but if there is room to spread out...even a little bit....then thats what gets me riled up because there is no need to be up on someone like that, American or not....

..and for the record, there was an actual "package on leg" moment....

I can't stand when some other dude's leg is touching my leg when he's sitting next to me on the subway.

There was that one time though when I sat down two seats away from this one guy on the subway and he took one look at me, got up and walked away muttering something to himself about homos. I was like "no way, that did NOT just happen!"

OH MY GOD

so i went to the gym this morning and all the ellipticals were being used, so i did my other work out stuff then waited for one to get free and FINALLY someone finished, and while i was doing my little cardio thing everyone else finished and i was all by myself...then, wouldn't you know it, in a ROW FULL OF UNUSED MACHINES, some lady waddled right up and started using the machine RIGHT NEXT TO ME, and she freakin REEKED of prince matchabelli!

i need to go out in public in a hazmat suit or one of those jackets saying "keep back 40 feet" or whatever those fire department parkas say.

Anx said:

That's the worst!!!

WHY oh WHY when there is a row of empty machines would anyone do that????

I hate that!

it's creepiest when folks do that in restrooms, choosing the stall adjacent rather than any of the many others that are empty