Tuesday is really starting to become the freakiest day of the week for me. This is the 2nd consecutive Tuesday where my journey home after my lecture has been, well, interesting (and that's the most positive way I can describe it).

I first bumped into Stalker (yes, the same Stalker in a previous post just last week) at the bus stop. My friend and I kinda brisk-walked to the bus stop without looking at whether Stalker was there since the bus was approaching and by the time she saw Stalker, it was too late to warn me as Stalker had by then crept up beside me and patted my shoulder. DARN.

Stalker then makes some really lame comment about my friend and I always being seen together (d'oh, because for one, we're friends and secondly, we take classes together, which in turn is sort of linked to the first reason). The 2 of us (Friend and I, not Stalker and I) give each other the 'Oh no, now how do we shake her off?' look as she creeps increasingly closer towards me, infringing on my personal space. When the bus FINALLY comes to a halt, she rushes off in front and somehow, Friend and I, without any form of communication and eye contact, simultaneously made the same decision to move to the back of the crowd trying to board the bus as Stalker pushes her way to the front. By doing so, we have ensured that we would be unable to board the bus since the crowd was sufficiently large enough to fill the entire bus right up to its steps. We finally got rid of Stalker.

And just in case you think that we haven't made it clear to her that we don't want her around, just last week, while another Friend (B) and I sat in the 3rd row from the front for another lecture, Stalker comes into the lecture theatre, sees us and makes a beeline for the 2nd row, sitting right in front of us. She then turns to us, pats B on her knee and says 'Did you drive to school today?' By that point in time, the 2 of us were shooting panicked looks at each other when I realised that 2 of our friends weren't here yet and the following exchange occurred:

Me: Do you think we're too close to the screen? I don't think A and C would appreciate being so far in front.....
B: Yea... you know.. in case we talk...
Me: Okay... I guess we better move, don't want the 2 of them killing us
*Grabs our stuff and moves to a row MUCH further back in the lecture theatre*

And you'd think someone would recognise being brushed off, but nope, definitely not Stalker!

Anyway, back to my journey home today, I was on the train when I got a seat somewhere near Outram when I noticed that an elderly man who looked about 70 had boarded the train. So I gave my seat up to him and his cohort, a middled aged man who looks about 50-ish, starts yakking to Friend and I! He first makes all these comments on how said elderly man isn't old and how he's fit. After the elderly man alights, I'm basically forced to replant myself in the original seat and carry out a conversation with Middle Aged Guy (whose breath reeks of alcohol) who goes on to interrogate Friend with regard to her ethnicity and mother tongue. Friend alights soon after and I'm left alone with Middle Aged Guy (MAG) who suddenly switches to MANDARIN (if you knew me well enough, you'd realise I HARDLY EVER converse in MANDARIN). About a handful of stops later, I notice an Elderly Woman (EW) at the corner of my line of vision, and seeing that it would be a perfect opportunity to rid myself of MAG and be a good samaritan, proceeded to volunteer the seat to her.

ONLY FOR HER TO TAKE THE SEAT, AND JOIN MAG IN ENGAGING ME IN CONVERSATION!!!!!

It wasn't that bad in the beginning since EW and MAG were more busy talking to each other to notice my obvious discomfort (did I mention there was a young girl in her school uniform and a grown woman who turned and looked at MAG and me when he forced me into a conversation?).

And then MAG left, causing me to initially think that the worst was over. But nooooo... EW started talking to me about her numerous children and grandchildren. What each one did, what they studied, how she put them through university. Ok, I know it was grand, noble and sacrificial of her but I thought once was enough, but she kept repeating her stories over and over, to a COMPLETE STRANGER.

I take the train to the end of the line and I spent the entire time wondering when she'd get off, only to realise she would be taking the train to the end of the line when she didn't alight at Tampines! Oh gosh. What is it with me and strange people on Tuesdays?!?!?!?! We finally alighted at Pasir Ris and I finally managed to get away from her.

And at this point, I should mention that over the course of the conversation, both MAG and EW had spit flying out of their mouths are various points in the conversation. *Gulp* The first thing I did when I entered the mall with the aim of running some errands? Find the nearest restroom and wash my arms (all the way past my elbows) and face just in case some spit got on me.

Please don't let next Tuesday be another strange Tuesday!