This is exactly as it happened. The train jolted, the guy next to me lost his balance and was leaning on me. And then he kept leaning on me for at least an extra beat or two longer than any other normal person would have. He didn’t say “excuse me” or anything. Finally it ended.
I always sit next to people whenever they’re sitting in the middle. I don’t know if they actually think this, but I imagine that they chose the middle seat because most people won’t sit next to someone if given the option. Well this time I did it and they didn’t budge. I guess they were committed to their choice.
Does this happen to everyone or just me? When we went to see “Where the Wild Things Are” a group of four people sat right behind us in an empty theater and started talking. Then yesterday we went to see the last screening of “Ong-Bak 2″ and the theater was completely empty until another couple sat directly behind us. They didn’t talk thankfully, but isn’t that sort of like sitting next to someone on the subway when other seats are empty?
Since I labeled my spoon no one’s used it for a while, but there was one time…
I noticed that 20 comics ago I titled my comic “Subway Sneeze.” Now ’cause of the swine flu I think a sneeze would be treated a bit differently. I’m not sinister enough to experiment and see how people react around me if I sneeze without covering my mouth, but I’m guessing there’d at least be some turned heads.
I think word is starting to get out that I was the one who posted the sign in the kitchen asking for my spoon back. It doesn’t matter so much since my spoon is in the cup at my desk, but if people know how anal I am about my own spoon it can’t hurt.
Okay so it’s kind of a retread of yesterday’s comic, but I wanted to give an update. So my spoon still wasn’t returned after lunch time so I made a sign that read something like: “Do you have a metal spoon at your desk that isn’t yours? Well it’s probably mine. Please wash it and return it to the dish rack. Actually it’s TWO spoons. Thank you.
The spoon I most recently brought to work was in the sink by the end of the day, but still no sign of the first one which went missing a while ago. I’m not holding out as much hope for that one, but we’ll see.
So yesterday during lunchtime my spoon was gone AGAIN! Even worse is that by the end of the day it still hadn’t returned. If it’s not there tomorrow I’m leaving a note in the kitchen, and if/when I get it back that spoon is staying at my desk when I’m not using it. Grrrrrr.
Ages ago I brought my own metal spoon to work for when I’m eating lunch I bring to work. At some point it mysteriously vanished. So I brought another spoon and a day or two afterwards found it in the sink meaning someone else was using it. Is it naive of me to think that people when eating lunch will look at a spoon and say “Hey, this isn’t my spoon I will not use this.” I know what spoon is mine and I know that the spoons aren’t property of the company and therefore not communal. Is this just me or is this a little gross?
This one I’ve had sitting on the back burner for ages, because for some reason I thought it’d be difficult to draw. Don’t ask me why I thought that, maybe my original conception was more different than this turned out. Last night this happened to me with two separate people while on the same pole at the same time. One person’s hand slid down into mine so I moved it and then the other person above my hand did the same. Granted the hand could probably be cleaner than the pole, but it still feels kind of gross.
