The strange intimacy of crowded mass transit

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He even looks like that damn lizard.

It was 97, ENBB

I am so happy that was easily googleable. It would have bothered me all day.

Man the idea of a zipless fuck between Rosie and that dude is like the polar opposite of erotic to me.

Actually I kind of like the tension when someone's applying mascara; will the bus/train jostle her and leave her a mess?

I would be so worried about poking myself in the eye with my mascara if I were applying it while on a train or bus.

I guess to the extent that I'm going to get on board w this concept at all, it's that the train does offer opportunities for surreptitious examination of parts of people you wouldn't normally look at if you were talking to them, but are easier to appear to not be looking at when you're packed in like sardines. Like the back of someone's neck, or a hand, or their shoes or calves...something it's not conspicuous to gaze at (or that they can't see you gazing at).

there was a woman on the train next to me today who had what looked like a little bit of dried toothpaste on her jaw. i couldn't decide if i should tell her or not. would it be more embarrassing for a stranger to point it out on the train but reduce the time it was on her face, or let her discover it herself later and think 'well maybe no one saw it"? i erred on the side of silence.

My ass is about where many shoulder purses fall. I get so much buttlove on the streetcar from the short people.

FFM, what a great post!

I mean ass.

Anyway, isn't there a whole Japanese subgenre of porn based on real-life phenomenon of men groping women in crowded trains and metros? Not that I've ever watched these movies, since they seem to have that rapey vibe that's common to this sort of "reality" porn.

Yeah I too have heard that's a thing in Japan. Not much of a problem in Toronto..people are just ignorant and few hold their purse straps in their hand to streamline the space they take up. :( But...thanks!