[Robinson's_Crusade]

If you get on a bus and see someone you know and get on with, but you wouldn't exactly call your friend, is there a social expectation that you'll sit with them or is it ok to just say hello and then take your separate seat?

[whyumadtho]

Sit behind them if possible—it's not too forward, but still allows conversation if it is desired.

[Speckle]

Either. But if you do choose to sit with them, make damn sure you don't let it get to awkward silence.

[srsmass14]

hello and move

[ROYP]

hope they didn't see you see them and just go and sit down without looking back in their direction. maybe check phone as walking past or something or take a huge interest in the bus ticket.

[TheSownRose]

(Original post by whyumadtho)
Sit behind them if possible—it's not too forward, but still allows conversation if it is desired.

From the tone of the OP, I don't think conversation is desired.

[jumpingjesusholycow]

Knowing me, I'd try and hide and avoid them so as to evade having to initiate any conversation, hoping they didn't see me or even just get off the bus and wait for another one if I wasn't in a hurry.

[randompickle]

(Original post by ROYP)
take a huge interest in the bus ticket.

This.
Made me laugh :P

[Zaineb]

I would jus smile at them and then go sit at the back off the bus while avoiding eye contact with them.

[doggyfizzel]

I'm an ********, so I'd just ignore them. Whats the worse that happens, they don't talk to me, they delete me from Facebook? Thats a result.

[randompickle]

but yeh, i think it depends on how well i knew them, if there was some common ground then i'd sit near by and say hello, if there was no common ground i'd probably just ask hows things n move on.

i don't like talkin on the bus anyways

[SecretDuck]

I just chat with them for a while and then they move on to their business...

[lali333]

Depends on how well I know them and if I like them and what mood I am in! Lol!

I remember when I got on to the bus and saw a girl I knew sitting. I was just gonna smile and walk past her but as I got to her seat she moved over to the window seat (which was empty) so I could sit next to her. I just sat there as I thought it would be kinda mean to keep walking but yeah we had an awkward convo :/



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[Pride]

(Original post by ROYP)
hope they didn't see you see them and just go and sit down without looking back in their direction. maybe check phone as walking past or something or take a huge interest in the bus ticket.

lol

[Pride]

OP, personally it always depends on the situation, but normally I'll nod hi, but sit by myself

[Genocidal]

This is just one of the reasons why I avoid public transport, and have managed to avoid buses for the past four years now. I refuse to pay those prices and have to sit in a urine-smelling coffin where I have to deal with low life chavs sat at the back of the bus banging out their mad tunes or potentially run into people I don't know. Seriously, where's the attraction of buses here?

[OU Student]

It depends who it is. There's a lady I used to volunteer with who I see on the bus quite a lot. I'm happy to talk to her. There's one person I see a lot who I don't like. I've usually got ear phones in and pretend I haven't seen her.

[MereBeing]

This is why I have my earphones in and music on during public transport journeys - no unwanted interactions. If the person wants to talk to me then they would walk over and greet me, otherwise I just stay absorbed in the music and stand for the duration of the bus journey.

[amime]

Sit on their lap.

[ROYP]

(Original post by Pride)
lol

it's a select level of friendship that warrants 'the avoid'. the sort of person you've met a few times or more but never directly - they've always been brought along by someone else. like you'd never text them or anything or invite them out but you might have conversed a few times in a group setting