Episode 20: Transitions
You Look Nice Today
You Look Nice Today
4.7 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2008
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
You’ve just hopped on the #17 Express and must quickly decide where to sit. In the back of the bus, four teenagers have staked their claim to a dozen seats. An old woman sits next to an open, delicately balanced bag of cat food. Up front, fumes rise from a guy who’s picking his teeth with what might be a knife.
So where do you sit?
If you’ve got your trusty YLNT SeatFinder, decisions like this are a snap.
Also:
Changin’ gears, basic stranger strategy, Adam eats alone, the Sultan of Awkward gives wisdom, pick fruit from your neighbor’s tree, fortune cookie photomat, our new sponsor, that Al Roker, it’s a conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | I am, can I change gears just a little bit? |
| 0:03.2 | I have a... You look nice today, a journal of emotional hygiene. |
| 0:18.2 | Do you ever, when you're like at the airport and it's the waiting room at the airport or the waiting in front of the |
| 0:24.0 | gate at the airport. And you know how it's full to the extent that there's a person in every other |
| 0:30.5 | seat? Do you break the seal and sit in between them or or what's your |
| 0:38.0 | solution for that? So many factors. I hate human contact. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, me too. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 0:45.0 | I walk into a room and I will choose the seat that's furthest away from anyone. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | This is day one such psychology, Adam, there are two if there are like let's say there's 15 seats in a room and one person walks in and then another person walks in it's the urinal situation right? You're always gonna autumn there's a self-selecting thing where we're always going to pick the most distance between as possible. |
| 1:07.0 | My question to you, Adam, is have you ever gone and actually plopped your ass down awkwardly in a seat between two people. |
| 1:13.7 | No, I'll stand. |
| 1:15.6 | I don't care. |
| 1:16.9 | I'll get close. |
| 1:18.4 | I will sit. |
| 1:19.5 | I'll go to a distant gate and make sure I know when the plane is taking off. |
| 1:24.5 | That's one thing I'll definitely do. |
| 1:26.5 | So that's sort of my first question. |
| 1:28.2 | My second question is, you're at a food court. |
| 1:30.7 | You're going to have to sit. |
| 1:32.4 | All of the tables are taken. But there are lots of singles. |
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