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• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s like 90% drunk homeless people that talk to you on trains and buses though. It gets tiring.

  If I want chance encounters with sober people, I’ll go to the bar. I mean eventually the people there get drunk too, but it’s a nice “5 hours and 10 beers” drunk not “what month and/or year is it” drunk.

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  • jve@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m the guy who takes a shot at a random conversation on the plane.

    Doesn’t often turn into anything, but sometimes it’s a nice little glimpse into humanity.

    Guess I don’t know what trains you’re on that are so full of the drunk and homeless, but that sounds like a problem in its own right.

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    • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I once took an overnight flight from the west coast to the east coast. The flight wasn’t very crowded and I intentionally picked a seat away from other ocupied seats.

      I get on the plane, as I’m warking back to my seat I notice there’s entire rows that are empty. So instead of picking a seat in an open row, and this. fucking. guy. picked the window seat closest to my aisle seat, and he talked for most of the flight. In hindsight I should have just sat somewhere else when I first noticed him.

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      • jve@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Heh yeah that’s rough.

        Baffling that you didn’t switch seats though.

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    • mriormro@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Leave me alone.

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      On a plane? That’s much worse, you can’t just change seats or get out if you want to avoid the person. Oh god

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      • jve@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or… shudder… shut down the conversation with your words and body language.

        Oh god the anxiety of it all.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not that the trains are so full of drunk homeless people, but that trains are affordable and also conductors aren’t going to physically throw out a person that could get violent. Planes you don’t really get on without a ticket. An entire class of people are filtered off the plane because of that.

      And anyway, said group are a minority, but they’re the only ones who randomly talk to strangers most of the time. Everyone else minds their own business in my experience.

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      • jve@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        the [drunk & homeless are the] only ones who randomly talk to strangers most of the time

        I’m not going to question your experience too much, but it’s sad to me that this would be true.

        A random conversation in a random interaction with somebody you could have easily not talked to can be great fun.

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• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I expect it not to happen and hope it stays that way since. Please jusr don’t bother me while I’m on the train

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Noted. If we ever see you we’ll ignore you.

    Just post your name and photo so we know what you look like. Thanks.

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m the person on public transit

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But I don’t mind people talking to me so how do others differentiate us?

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