After I left Lingyenshan I walked a couple of hundred metres to the bus stop to get the No 2 bus home. It was only 11 am and so the bus is usually very quiet. About half way through the journey a man about a similar age to myself was forced to sit beside me, I say this because quite often on a bus,no Chinese will want to sit beside me willingly and I for one am very happy that they find me disgusting or scary or smelly or whatever it may be, but today this man grew a pair and sat beside me. Well he didn’t really have a choice unless he wanted to stand, or the alternative was the seat in front that had water sitting on it.

He put his hand up to the air conditioning vent above the window to check whether it was on, I had already cracked the sliding window open beside me about an inch which was sufficient for me because I was sweaty from the walk. He got up and went and opened the window just in front of the seat in front and then came back and sat down and proceeded to lean over me and slide the window next to me fully open…………………….I closed said window in a millisecond, I turned and looked at him and he looked at me , he looked a bit surprised by my reaction……………it totally threw him and he really didn’t know what to do and so we both sat there for at least 5 seconds staring longingly into each others eyes, but it felt much longer and then he turned back to his family on the other side of the bus to complain……………what a rude prick………….he had only been on the bus for two stops and he has the audacity to just open a window where someone else is sitting………….where I was sitting…………so fuck you I said. Now if he had asked me I would have probably been happy to accommodate his request but since he decided to take matters into his own hands and be an ignorant selfish prick, I decided to say no in no uncertain terms.

Got to love China, everyday is an adventure for the foreigner…………..