3alashan msh lazem nekoon ma3 ba3d - khales!

People are weird. I swear. 

I take the Rehab bus almost everyday and I started noticing an odd pattern in people's behavior, including mine. 

When the bus is still empty-ish and people start taking seats, they always pick the empty ones, and they always sit next to the aisle, so that other people will be reluctant to come and ask them to move inside so they can sit.

Then when the bus starts crowding and the late in-comers ask the ones already there to move so they can sit in the other chair, every single person is SOOOO reluctant to move inside or give them the window seat that it seems to me as if they've been asked to share their bed not a seat in public transportation! Some people get so grumpy that they give a loud "hhhmmmmfff" and two women even fought about it once, one saying to the other "law msh 3ayza 7ad yo3od gambek erkaby taxi!!"

I find myself doing the same actually - minus the "hmmffff" - and I really have no idea why. But every time I find someone approaching my seat I think; "why do you have to pick my seat, why don't you go elsewhere?" and then a mental "hmmmfff".

People really like to be left alone. I don't know why, but maybe the pressure of constant human contact at home or at work and even in the streets make people really long for 20 minutes of WIDE personal space; where no one would breathe down your neck, mumble stuff next to you when you're trying to read, or ask you private questions for no reason whatsoever... I don't blame them, honestly, I sometimes need my 20 minutes of peace too -_-