How to keep strangers from sitting next to you

[Misfit]

How to keep strangers from sitting next to you: a study | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

Sometimes we even don a 'don't bother me face' or what's known as the 'hate stare'."

Others are more overtly antisocial, like placing your bag on the empty seat next to you, listening to your iPod, or even lying and saying the seat next to has already been taken.

"One rider told me the objective is just 'getting through the ride', and that I should avoid fat people who may sweat more and so may be more likely to smell," Kim said.

 

[NextJen]

I don't mind strangers so much, it's the plain old strange people that bother me.

 

[CrashTest]

Any tips for how to get women to sit on me instead of next to me?

 

[NextJen]

Any tips for how to get women to sit on me instead of next to me?

Tie money around your neck?

 

[Toxick]

Any tips for how to get women to sit on me instead of next to me?

Buy them a $20 highball and hold up some ones.

 

[bcp]

I just carry on a conversation with the empty seat.
Most people will avoid this at all cost.

 

[desertrat]

I just carry on a conversation with the empty seat.
Most people will avoid this at all cost.

I will remember that one. Should I call the invisible sitter Harvey?

 

[JoeRider]

I will remember that one. Should I call the invisible sitter Harvey?

Yes, having a loud argument with yourself works really well. Remember a guy like that in Chicago when I use to ride the bus.

 

[bcp]

Tie money around your neck?

Thats a fable, it never works

maybe I need to use something bigger than a one..

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

Any tips for how to get women to sit on me instead of next to me?

You and four others in a four-passenger car; one of the other three being a woman, of course; and hope that she is the last one to get in the car.
You can, 'well.....you can sit on my lap until we get to.....'
See? Always thinkin'.....

 

[warneckutz]

You and four others in a four-passenger car; one of the other three being a woman, of course; and hope that she is the last one to get in the car.
You can, 'well.....you can sit on my lap until we get to.....'
See? Always thinkin'.....

The irony in this is... ironic.