College Times

Issue date: 4/2/09 Section: Top 10s

Media Credit: Ryan A. Ruiz

I ride the bus and light rail a lot. Many times I see people that make me laugh because they think they're in their own bubble where no one else can see them - even though it's PUBLIC transportation. This Top 10 list is meant to burst that bubble.

10. Check yourself out in a window
That's just so vain and tacky.

9. Pick your nose
Countless times I've experienced this, and at least once I've seen a fully adult person eat what they find.

8. Sit with your legs 100 percent wide open
This goes for either gender. If you're a guy, it makes you look like you have something on display. If you're a woman, it makes you look like you don't have ANYTHING to hide.

7. Have an intense tickle fight
If you feel the sudden urge to tickle the person you're with, do it and be done with it. Don't make it last for more than a handful of seconds, because then it's crossing the line into something that should be done in private.

6. Argue
I get it, everyone gets mad sometimes, and most of the time you can't plan it so that you fight at home or somewhere that's not really public. But, when it comes down to it, no one wants to see a fight.

5. Cough on someone
Please, for whatever reason you might have, think twice before coughing on me, in my hair or on my hand. It's just not kind.

4. Write in your journal and then cover it when someone (me) tries to read it
Seriously. You're in public. Expect it to get read.

3. Puke
Please, please, please try your hardest not to throw up in public. It could just start a puking ring, where the person next to you catches a whiff and they puke and then it's a terrible, horrible, traumatizing chain reaction.

2. Blowing your nose without a tissue
Yes, I've seen this too. Blowing your nose into your hand will not get someone to go home with you. Period.

1. Excrete human waste
While this could be directed to the guy who pees on the wall a lot, this also is directed to those women who pop a squat behind a dumpster and expect it to be as private as a bathroom stall. Big, fat no.

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