Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : A couple of weeks ago, I was catching the bus home from a fairly large bus mall. It was the busy time, and I'm on a popular route, so it was packed. I ended up close to the front of the bus, in that front space with sideways benches for people with mobility issues etc. I'm quite tall and ended up pushed in to a spot directly below one of the horizontal grab bars. The bar itself was at exactly head height for me, so I had to keep my head awkwardly bent to one side or the other, bumping it with every pothole (and there were a lot more than I ever realized).

After a few stops, the bus had started emptying out, but only from the back so I was still jammed against my headpole. Finally, someone left from the front, leaving their seat empty. The guy that was in front of the seat, rather than sitting, decided to keep standing. A woman next to the empty seat tried to get his attention, but he either ignored her or didn't hear. So, being pretty difficult to miss or ignore, and tired of the growing bruise on my head, I caught his attention and said "Hey- if you sit down, there'll be more space for the rest of us." 

The guy did a little jump, as if he was startled by me or the idea of sitting. But then, instead of sitting down, he grabbed the bar in front of and above the seat and got in a squat position. He held himself there for the rest of the ride, never letting his rear touch the seat, grimacing. He looked like someone trying to take a dump in a toilet without touching their bare ass to the seat.

I chalked it up to him being odd, but I started getting looks from other people on the bus, and a friend I was chatting with looked kind of embarrassed and stopped talking. I ended up standing comfortably, so I don't regret doing it, but I'm still worried that a bunch of people that work in the same place I do think I'm an asshole.

So, render judgement, ye experts of anal orifices. Am I The Asshole?

