Trains, Planes and Automobiles

People on trains are weird. There is always such an assortment that you cant help but watch them. Where else can you cram 100 odd people into a tiny space and have complete silence. You can be all smooshed up against the person next to you but you don't say a word to them. I don't think it is a bad thing. Trains are not designed for social networking and I feel terribly uncomfortable if someone tries to chat. There are people that look like high powered business people, the school kids, the druggos that never fail to ask for money and ordinary people like me (not that I have seen many of those). It would just be interesting to find out what all these people do for a living, why they want to be a sardine. Marketers should target trains, there is a huge assortment of people so you are bound to reach your target market and on the train people will read anything (it helps you not have to interact with everyone around you). On my train this morning I had to sit in the seat that faces everyone else. Over half of the people in the carriage were sound asleep. I don't understand how people can sleep on a train surrounded by people they don't know, I always think that I am going to wake up and my bag will be gone, so I just don't do it. I am also paranoid because when I was in kindy my sister and I had to catch the bus to and from school. One day Emma fell asleep on the way home and I couldn't get her to wake up so I had to leave her on the bus. It sounds like a ridiculous decision now but I was 5 so I let myself get away with it. Anyway, then I stood at the bus stop and cried for an hour (probably not but it felt like it because I was 5) until dad came to find out why we weren't home yet. He was pretty angry with me. Luckily the bus driver noticed that there was a kid left when he finished his trip and drove her back home. But I don't want to fall asleep and end up in whoop whoop.