XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 17/01/2014 12:27 pm, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > On 1/16/14 8:19 PM, Robert Bannister wrote:   
   >> On 16/01/2014 1:56 pm, Your Name wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> It is quite annoying to see a train go whizzing past ... until you   
   >>> realise you don't have some annoying kid kicking the back of your seat   
   >>> all the way, a teenager with his iPod turned up full volume, a drunken   
   >>> smelly guy sitting opposite you who looks like he'll be sick at any   
   >>> minute, a gossipy old woman sitting next to you who won't shut up, the   
   >>> inability to properly open a window in the middle of summer, ...   
   >>   
   >> Some people just don't like people. At my age, I wouldn't travel on the   
   >> train at night, but it would be fine by day if only it went somewhere I   
   >> want to go.   
   >   
   >   
   >      I like people in controlled circumstances. I don't like crowds of   
   > people with whom I have no known relationship or common purpose (i.e., a   
   > convention has some common ground for attendees, but being in public   
   > transportation is just random people not even necessarily going to the   
   > same place; I can sorta deal with it in planes because, well, PLANE!   
   > FLYING!, which still gets me even today). So public transportation is   
   > something I avoid whenever possible, though I've gotten past it as an   
   > immobilizing problem; I can take the Metro if I have to when I'm in   
   > Washington, for instance.   
   >   
      
   I hate flying. You can't move around because there are always two cabin   
   crew blocking the aisle with their food/drinks trolley. You a squashed   
   on a too narrow seat with insufficient leg room, and you have to suffer   
   this for anything betwenn 2-8 hours. I couldn't stand a two hour bus   
   journey either, but trains aren't so bad if they're not crowded.   
      
   --   
   Robert Bannister - 1940-71 SE England   
                       1972-now W Australia   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)