TAKE A SEAT
There are two types of seats on the bus: the perpendicular and the parallel.
Now, you may not think either of those options would be significant, but that’s where you’re wrong.
Lets discuss the parallel. These seats are always in the very front and the very back. If you’re riding the accordion, you will gain 4 additional parallel seat options in the middle.
Positive: Front of the bus makes for quick escapes and plenty of leg room. And sitting in the accordion fold, well that’s just plain fun.
Negative: Always facing sideways. Back of the bus can get real sketchy. And sometimes you have to move for elderly and wheelchairs (which being a good citizen I don’t mind, but makes you regret not taking a perpendicular seat in the first place).
Now on to the perpendicular. These are the rest of the seats. Rows and rows of perpendiculars. Two seats on either side of an aisle.
Positive: Seats facing towards the front window. It is very important to know where your next stop is before you see it pass out the side window. Two seats means you and hopefully no one else. At worst, only one crazy to sit by.
Negative: Now this is where the perpendicular really loses points. First, not a lot of leg room (not that it matters with my squatty legs). But most importantly is there are people in front and in back of you. The people in front I don’t worry about, I can keep an eye on them, it’s the ones in back that get me nervous. Because of that fact alone, I have experienced the following: I have been sneezed on. Whispered to. And most disturbing of all, had my hair petted…multiple times.
Again, I leave needing to sanitize my body. Maybe its just better to stand.
