Sunday, February 5, 2006

While the Czechs generally are very quiet people, especially during mass transit, whether it is on the metro or on a tram, they like their public displays of affection. Every single time I enter the metro by my flat and ascend the what-feels-like neverending escalator to the platform, I always observe a couple groping and making out. I can barely walk down the incredibly steep and windy escalator, much less suck face with someone on the step above me. And PDA is not reserved for the young and car-less, I've seen elderly couples making out against buildings as I've walked down main drags, like Wenceslas Sqaure. Yes, I talk loudly sometimes on the metro with my fellow loud Americans and receive dirty looks but I think I have a right to shoot some dirty looks of my own towards these overly romantic schmucks. All right, I admit it, I wish I had the balance to make out with someone on the escalators leading to the metro at Jiriho z Podebrad. But alas, I'm an uncoordinated American who doesn't have anyone to make out with in Europe...yet.