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Get a room
Nov. 21st, 2007 09:49 amI've been meaning to post about this for a while, but haven't gotten around to it until now.
One of my pet peeves is people making out in public. Specifically, in a situation where other people are trapped nearby.
This past Saturday I was in Harvard square waiting for the shuttle to the quad. The bus goes down Mass ave, which at this point is a one-way street, so is coming from the east. To the east of me also was a couple who couldn't keep their hands off each other. So here I am waiting for the bus. And usually when I wait, I find myself looking in the direction where the bus is coming from in the hopes of seeing the bus. But every time I did, there'd be the couple making out.
The other example goes way back to the week of Yom Kippur. One day I was waiting for a bus on Cambridge street in the little bus stop hut. There was a couple sitting on the bench in the hut making out, so I had to move to standing outside. So in that case I was robbed of a seat, because obviously I couldn't sit down next to them making out...
I think I'm bothered by this because it feels like this should be something private, and I'm invading their privacy and shouldn't be there, except that they're in public and I have every right to be waiting for the bus. I don't feel uncomfortable with people kissing in movies, because there's the separation of the screen, and I know that I'm not actually watching them go at it in real life.
One of my pet peeves is people making out in public. Specifically, in a situation where other people are trapped nearby.
This past Saturday I was in Harvard square waiting for the shuttle to the quad. The bus goes down Mass ave, which at this point is a one-way street, so is coming from the east. To the east of me also was a couple who couldn't keep their hands off each other. So here I am waiting for the bus. And usually when I wait, I find myself looking in the direction where the bus is coming from in the hopes of seeing the bus. But every time I did, there'd be the couple making out.
The other example goes way back to the week of Yom Kippur. One day I was waiting for a bus on Cambridge street in the little bus stop hut. There was a couple sitting on the bench in the hut making out, so I had to move to standing outside. So in that case I was robbed of a seat, because obviously I couldn't sit down next to them making out...
I think I'm bothered by this because it feels like this should be something private, and I'm invading their privacy and shouldn't be there, except that they're in public and I have every right to be waiting for the bus. I don't feel uncomfortable with people kissing in movies, because there's the separation of the screen, and I know that I'm not actually watching them go at it in real life.
