Posted by Andrew on 11/11/2010, 9:47 pm, in reply to "Re: Forum Newbie"

Hi Clare Excellent reply: you are progressing already! As for your realisation that the issue with trains and planes is "the anxiety of having people there knowing how long I have been in the loo!" Trust me: no-one is interested in the least. If they look at you as you walk along the aisle, it is because they are bored of looking at a seat back for hours and any movement is a change. Passengeres get into a sort of stupor of passivity - rather like watching mindless TV. On a train you can if you wish wander along to the next carriage towards the buffet; that way none of your neighbours see you go into the loo. A cognitive exercise is to imagine that I ask you to do a market survey; equipped with badge, clipboard and pen, you are to go along the carriage asking people to answer a couple of questions for a survey; Q1 do you pay attention to people going to the loo? Q2 when did the last person go and who was it? What answers do you think you would get? You would get either a) bemusement or (b) the responder would be offended that anyone should think that s/he could possibly interested in such a thing. Think about it Andrew

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