June 26, 2025

Who can’t associate with being on a packed bus and feeling that everyone else is just being a pain in the neck, or noisy, or rude or even attractive? Well that’s Tuppence Middleton’s experience as she stands on a busy London bus travelling home. She can imagine the lengths people will go to get a seat, be left in peace - or even just to get on and off the thing. She makes eye contact with another passenger, he reciprocates, but is it just that lo… read the rest.

Who can’t associate with being on a packed bus and feeling that everyone else is just being a pain in the neck, or noisy, or rude or even attractive? Well that’s Tuppence Middleton’s experience as she stands on a busy London bus travelling home. She can imagine the lengths people will go to get a seat, be left in peace - or even just to get on and off the thing. She makes eye contact with another passenger, he reciprocates, but is it just that look of a kindred spirit sharing her thoughts or do their gentle smiles at each other represent anything more potential? It’s quite an interesting observation of a few minutes in their lives, probably a routine that we do day-in day-out, and maybe if it were shown on buses it might make us a little more appreciative and aware of each other as we usually quite selfishly endure the daily grind.

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