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[–] 8 points 11 months ago (60 children)

It's like 90% drunk homeless people that talk to you on trains and buses though. It gets tiring.

If I want chance encounters with sober people, I'll go to the bar. I mean eventually the people there get drunk too, but it's a nice "5 hours and 10 beers" drunk not "what month and/or year is it" drunk.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (59 children)

    I’m the guy who takes a shot at a random conversation on the plane.

    Doesn’t often turn into anything, but sometimes it’s a nice little glimpse into humanity.

    Guess I don’t know what trains you’re on that are so full of the drunk and homeless, but that sounds like a problem in its own right.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (48 children)

    On a plane? That's much worse, you can't just change seats or get out if you want to avoid the person. Oh god

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    It's not that the trains are so full of drunk homeless people, but that trains are affordable and also conductors aren't going to physically throw out a person that could get violent. Planes you don't really get on without a ticket. An entire class of people are filtered off the plane because of that.

    And anyway, said group are a minority, but they're the only ones who randomly talk to strangers most of the time. Everyone else minds their own business in my experience.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I once took an overnight flight from the west coast to the east coast. The flight wasn't very crowded and I intentionally picked a seat away from other ocupied seats.

    I get on the plane, as I'm warking back to my seat I notice there's entire rows that are empty. So instead of picking a seat in an open row, and this. fucking. guy. picked the window seat closest to my aisle seat, and he talked for most of the flight. In hindsight I should have just sat somewhere else when I first noticed him.

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