Public Transit

The consistent chatter of the train gliding along the tracks is all that anyone hears, if your lucky sniffles beside you might cough into a particular crowed part of the car literally spreading his love with everyone else around him. Otherwise everyone is dead silent as people make their futile attempts to avoid eye contact and even worse a conversation a strange though dawned upon me. Calgary has the most spread out population in the world and in this magical privacy invading moment we have 200 Calgaryians the most private and spacious people in Canada are all jammed in a 3 by 20m train car. Something about this bothered me so after i told my rather brother we decided to try and brighten the mood in this moving coffin. The next day me and my brother got on the Tuscany train. We brought a stool and put it in the middle of the train. We just waited for the train to fill up, the as the heart worming feeling of some one breathing down your next began to consume us both we stood unto of the stools and asked for everyone's attention. The looks we got were so great it was almost as if the people were screaming "how dare you disturb my miserable life" We announced that whoever would hug the stranger next to them would get a free coffee at Starbucks. Of course this was a blatant lie we simply had just take about a 100 empty unremembered Starbucks cards that have no value and gave them to people. Looking back on the awkward silence of my previous ride i decided that no these people are all generally nice, they aren't talking because they think there better or other be nine reasons they aren't talking because many just don't want to break the ice.  The train instantly filled with laughter and applause. I think this experiment i did with my brother was one of the scariest things i have every done but also has left a big impression... Society doesn't suck after all.