Kesher Talk

Keep your knees to yourself. I'm glad someone is complaining about this in a national forum. Seriously, it's creepy. I always puff myself up in my seat and squirm around a bit when I sit next to one of these guys, and sometimes they get the message. Sometimes, they refuse to. It's a male/female power struggle. Often, on the NYC subway, it's a black male/white female power struggle. The NY subways are full of posters smarmily admonishing us to take off our backpacks, move all the way into the car, not put our stuff on the seat next to us, not to run on the platform, and not to lean against the doors, but they haven't tackled the "male crotch spread" problem yet.

posted by Judith @ 10/16/2002 01:00:50 PM