Suffice to say, the very nature of public transport is you never know you you’re going to meet or what may be sharing your carriage. Sometimes you catch someone’s eye or you bump into someone you’ve not seen in years. The underground can be a place for many a bizarre encounter.
Whether it’s with a hastily placed folder, zipping up your coat in record time or a bit or surreptitious ‘rearranging’, in polite society you need to cover it up, STAT! Of course, it’s only natural but it’s something that can cause no end of embarrassment and anxiety. We’ve all been there before, ever since we sat on a bumpy bus ride in our teens.
