Too much PDA of a different type
A couple in their mid-20s boards at Argyle. They find a spot to stand.
The guy is kind of ignoring her, making no eye contact. She busies herself with removing her hat and scarf, while he still looks straight ahead -- not at her.
She nuzzles her head on his shoulder, then waves the end of her scarf in his face, as a mother would wave a rattle at her infant. No response despite this aggressive stimuli.
Then she stands behind him and extends her arm around his torso and does her little scarf-face dance again.
That gets his attention. He seems more annoyed than anything else.
Then she takes off his hat and starts grooming him, smoothing down the fly-away hairs on the crown of his head.
This whole show was a totally different form of PDA. Do you ride to work with your significant other? How do you react? Any PDA? A quick kiss good-bye?
Frankly, I'm glad I don't ride with my wife. I'm afraid I'm too busy reading the paper or taking notes for this blog to give her much attention!
When my wife and I both worked downtown we worked at different stops in the loop. In the morning we would take the train in together and for the ride home we would always coordinate which train the other would be on (we knew that we always met in the second-to-last car being that's where we first met). So anyway, she'd board the Brown Line at Quincy and Wells and I'd catch that train at the Merchandise Mart on it's way back North.
A "game" we liked to play was that she wouldn't notice me get on and I would get on the train like any other passenger. Then, we'd pretend to flirt by means of making eye contact and smiling... and then she would approach me as if she was going to say something but instead we'd give each other a very ummmm "passionate" kiss. The look on the faces of the other riders is what made it the more amusing.
Posted by: Ed Knittel | December 23, 2005 at 01:16 PM
Hey, she used to play that same game with me every morning in the elevator during our ride up to the office. She's a good kisser!
--jack
Posted by: Jack | December 25, 2005 at 01:34 AM
I'm thinking that if you played this "game" in the same CTA car on the same train with any regularity, the looks you were getting were looks of horror, as in "Oh no, them again. For the love of god, please stop. Arrgggh!"
Posted by: why do want me to watch you? | December 27, 2005 at 11:32 AM
My husband and I used to take the train together before we moved and I had to switch lines. We tried to coordinate it so that we could still ride together, but we had to leave really early in order to do it and one of us would arrive at work twenty minutes early while the other would be five minutes late.
When we do take the bus or train together, we tend to be snuggly, but we don't kiss unless it's to say goodbye (and that's just a chaste peck on the lips). When we're sitting in the seats facing the middle of the bus he'll put his arm around me and pull me against him so that we only take up one seat. and there's plenty of room for someone else to sit next to us. When we're standing, I lean against him. So far no one's ever given us any dirty looks, so I guess we don't appear too squicky.
Posted by: melanctha | December 27, 2005 at 02:16 PM