Apr 09 2009

My personal space is 1 seat wide

When you walk into a movie theater, lecture hall or even a Southwest airplane and try to find a seat, we all do something interesting. We all find a seat then sit one seat away from them, unless we know someone and then its okay to sit next to somebody else.

This even holds true in the men’s bathroom, with the urnials. So often I walk in and see everyother urinal is occupied.

I know this observation is a common one, stand up comedians to sociologists hae studied why humans do this. But there is reason to why I chosen to blog about it.

I was sitting in class and someone sits directly next to me, when there are a lot of empty seats, but I didn’t mind. Then this person proceeds to move one seat over, like he realized he had made a mistake, or invaded my personal boundary. Odd..