Scenes of Temporary Intimacy

Here is a list of various social settings where one may feel (uncomfortably) intimate with complete strangers, but only in passing. Here we gain a close insight to each other's lives, but only through the peephole of a limited time.

Elevators
Subway (and other) Trains
Bus Rides
Plane Rides
In Checkout Waiting Lines
In a Crowded Movie Theater (or other performance)
In Line to Vote
Traffic Jams
Traffic Accidents (observant or participant)
Waiting to Cross the Street
Baggage Claim at Airports
Passing on a Sidewalk
That odd phenomena of first choosing the same side to pass on, then switching and being in the same situation again
Roller Coaster Rides (seatmates or car-mates who knows) + waiting lines
Drive Through Windows (banks, fast foods, etc.)
Holding Doors or,
Having to Walk Through Held Open Doors
Falling and being Helped Up
Picking up Dropped Items for Others
Escalators
Gyms
(will add more or comment some)

It is interesting that most come in the form of transportation. We get a fixed snapshot of the lives of others in a place where change is the cause of meeting.


just musing away - D