Subway Capers 3 & 4

This is also long overdue. This happened back in October… I think it was the same day I met the crazy train lady.

#3
I was on the train heading back home. The train car I was in was filled with people but there were still enough seats for people to not really have to sit beside anyone. I was sitting in a corner seat closest to the door. I like those seats the best since I only have to seat next to one other person.

A man sat down right next to me he seemed to be reading a science text book. I thought what he did was odd since there were enough seats that he didn’t have to seat right next to me. I just shrugged it off and began to zone out. I think I might have been listening to music. I don’t remember.

After some time I began to feel some pressure on my leg; then sort of rubbing sensation. I looked over at my left leg and saw that my leg and the man’s leg were touching so I moved my leg away. After a while it happened again and again so I kept moving my leg away from the man until their wasn’t any space for me to retreat.

Thankfully my stop came up next and I jumped out of my seat readying myself to exit. As a routine I double check my seat just in case I left something behind. When I looked back the man was gone. He was sitting opposite aisle in a middle seat next to a different woman rubbing his leg against hers. Ew.

#4
I was on my way home from Sunday mass in Seodaemun. I thought there was going to be mass in English but that turned out to be a bust. So feeling tired and defeated I made my way home. I was waiting for the train on the platform. Out of no where a little girl came up to me and began to stare up at me. I think she was a 4th or 5th grade student.
I looked over at her and she said to me “ 예쁘세요” which means “you are pretty” in a nice polite form of the language. I suppose if my Korean was better at the time I would have said more to her that just thanks. When she said it she was holding my hand smiling at me. She called her mother over to where we were standing but her mother yelled for her to come over so she went.