Elizafox

The Bus Seating Protocol

• Everyone -- with noted exemptions -- attempts to sit as far from each other as possible, leaving at minimum one person of space.
• If this is impossible, the following precedence rules are followed:
• Seats behind an adjacent passenger avoiding passengers of great weight, homelessness, or mental illness, avoiding adjacent people on sides
  • Seats in front of an adjacent passenger avoiding passengers of great weight, homelessness, or mental illness, avoiding adjacent people on sides
  • Sitting "between seats" bus permitting and not uncomfortable
  • At this stage sitting directly next to someone is impossible, so find least person of great weight and/or mental illness and/or homelessness (preferring weight to homelessness to mental illness) to sit next to
  • Failing these, or adjacent people would be too mentally ill, homeless, or fat, stand.
• Bus seating order prefers back to front, unless the passenger is of great weight, elderly, or their stop is < 4km away, then