Contact Zone

I believe that there are many contact zones that we can find ourselves in throughout the day, but one of the most unpredictable contact zones i can think of is on the city bus. I know there was already a previous post about the bus station being a contact zone, but i feel like the bus just takes that contact zone to the next level. I have never really rode a city bus until i came up here to college. I've only really rode the bus several times, but out of those several times each time I have came into contact with some pretty diverse people. As said before, Burlington is a sort of "melting pot" of people, so you can imagine being on the bus theres a good chance your going to encounter some different people than you are used to. Bus's are especially intense contact zones because they are so close quartered, and you cant really choose who sits next to you. A good example of this is a time when i was on the bus in the fall. There were several college girls sitting down, and a homeless man came onto the bus and sat right across from them facing them. I had my headphones on during this time, but i was sitting in a place where i could see both the homeless man and group of girls. The man was making some kind of loud remarks, which in return made the group of girls laugh and giggle. This whole situation within the contact zone made the girls uncomfortable, and the only way for them to get over that was by laughing. To me this was just a great example of how much of a contact zone a bus can really be.