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thenewgreen  ·  3499 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Familiar Strangers: the people you meet on the bus every day

I enjoyed this, thanks.

    Researchers think “social” transit might make us happier, but is it actually feasible? Some transportation companies think it is.
-I kind of like my alone time. I bet there are lots of people that view their transit time as time they'd prefer to keep from being "social."

There was that moment in the article towards the beginning where they mention the thrill of locking eyes with a stranger and getting a smile in return.. or something like that. -The reason that this is thrilling is that transit isn't overtly social. Otherwise, such a thing wouldn't be special anymore, it would be commonplace.

There are definitely people that I see often that I wonder about. People that work at the supermarket stocking shelves, gas station attendants, the waitress from a favorite restaurant that I also see walking on the trails behind my house. I like the familiarity of all of that, it creates a nice outline of a community, but I don't need to learn more about them, I don't need to color it in.

One of my really good friends, Michael lives in Montreal. He's a wonderful fella. I have a felling that someday mk, ecib and I will be in Montreal at the same time to visit him. When that happens, we will have to have a Hubski meet up and hopefully you'll be in Montreal at the time to join us :)