There’s always that one passenger who mistakes a public bus for his personal space. For one young woman on her way to class, that man turned a normal commute into an infuriating encounter.
When he smirked and told her to “squeeze past” instead of standing up, she took his words at face value. What followed was a brilliantly clumsy act of malicious compliance that left him rubbing his nose and his ego.
A university student in Germany found herself stuck next to an older man who decided her seat space was his personal kingdom
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Was the nose-drag perfect or risky? Would you add a “sorry, heavy books!” for flair? Drop your transit pettiness or backpack wins below, we’re saving you a seat!
