If you had a bus travel experience in Chennai, you would be able to get what I am going to say!
I don't generally look for a seat in the moderately crowded bus while coming to the office. I prefer standing (that is equally comfortable one for me) for about 40 minutes, in the fresh morning. I know there are lots of people who get annoyed if they don't get a seat as soon as they are in the bus.
This is an unwritten(?) rule: You are the owner of it, if you are standing near the seat which is going to be freed. There are professional people who could break this rule if you give them a little bit of chance.
The simplest trick is to give your lunch bag/etc., to the person who is seated. He takes care of your bag (of course, will return it!). It is a 'compulsory help' that one ought to do for his co-passenger. When he needs to get down from the bus, your bag books a seat for you. Whom should you give your belongings is where your professionalism shown.
Another trick is to look for a person, sitting in the row where you are standing (by default), two rows left plus two rows right (that is the normal 'coverage' area) who might get down in the next bus stop. It is pretty easy to find these people as the signs are too obvious to recognize. You position yourself in such a way that the person leaving (you got nothing to do with the 'owner') blocks the 'owner' from getting the seat. You must be careful because this trick might lead to a 'fight'.
It is my pleasure to be a 'victim owner' (actually not, after all, I don't prefer to sit there) and watching these people getting their seats. Interestingly, I found one common trait among these people. The moment they find another seat that can be occupied they will point that to me. I either try to take it or move away from them to make their troubled heart be still - yet another place where eventually it is the heart that wins.
Kovil Pillai P.
I don't generally look for a seat in the moderately crowded bus while coming to the office. I prefer standing (that is equally comfortable one for me) for about 40 minutes, in the fresh morning. I know there are lots of people who get annoyed if they don't get a seat as soon as they are in the bus.
This is an unwritten(?) rule: You are the owner of it, if you are standing near the seat which is going to be freed. There are professional people who could break this rule if you give them a little bit of chance.
The simplest trick is to give your lunch bag/etc., to the person who is seated. He takes care of your bag (of course, will return it!). It is a 'compulsory help' that one ought to do for his co-passenger. When he needs to get down from the bus, your bag books a seat for you. Whom should you give your belongings is where your professionalism shown.
Another trick is to look for a person, sitting in the row where you are standing (by default), two rows left plus two rows right (that is the normal 'coverage' area) who might get down in the next bus stop. It is pretty easy to find these people as the signs are too obvious to recognize. You position yourself in such a way that the person leaving (you got nothing to do with the 'owner') blocks the 'owner' from getting the seat. You must be careful because this trick might lead to a 'fight'.
It is my pleasure to be a 'victim owner' (actually not, after all, I don't prefer to sit there) and watching these people getting their seats. Interestingly, I found one common trait among these people. The moment they find another seat that can be occupied they will point that to me. I either try to take it or move away from them to make their troubled heart be still - yet another place where eventually it is the heart that wins.
Kovil Pillai P.
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