To open my window on the bus

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It seems to be a mission for some people to fight to have all the windows on the bus closed, for all of every journey? Why? Before covid this wasn't an issue - now it seems people have a point to make.

I get there can be a chilly draught, but just put your coat on, or put your hood up?

I am immunocompromised, and wear a mask and open the window on my way to and from work. Every single time I get ill, ( currently a couple of times a month) my classes are left with non specialist agency staff. I take all the precautions I reasonably can to keep from catching anything, but this constant battle on the bus every working day is really wearing my down.

Really, that's not very nice. I hope people just ignore her telling them off. Windows are there for a reason. Does she walk through the bus, lean over people and close them?

@HappyHamsters she lives in different country so this is more commonly there, people are like that there.

It’s January. The week before last it was -7 on my commute to work. So yes, I’d be annoyed if people opened the window on a bus. May to September I probably wouldn’t care. I don’t drive with my window open in winter so same goes for the bus I guess.

Unfortunately your own personal reasons do not get to dictate what others do on public transport. Wasting energy on it is pointless.

Limited options are using private transport (car/taxi), or asking people if they mind the windows open. I’m not sure I’d want to sit on a freezing bus, so you don’t trump others.

It also a stretch to say any illness you get stems from this.

not if its chucking if down with rain

I saw a bus today that the upstairs was so fogged up you could barely see the passengers - how gross breathing that air in!

Because Op is immune compromised, that's why. The other people on the bus are fortunate not to be. I am the same currently due to serious illness. I am lucky i don't have to travel by bus. I detest masks and struggle to wear them but very occasionally do. I wore one to take our cat to the vets a couple of days ago and a woman sat openly staring at me the whole time . Wish I'd told her my health condition now. I think people think any mask wearer nowadays is wearing them due to covid. Most aren't but if they wanted to it's up to them.

I still wear a mask on the bus, and when the hacking coughs and soggy sneezes get going I feel very justified. Its not just about covid, I don't want noro, or flu or any other fucking virus. Last week a woman got on and slammed all the windows shut giving me a very nasty look - I had not opened them. The people who really annoy me are the cunts who sit on the outside seat leaving an empty seat by the window.

Yep I call it window wars. I am firmly on the side of open windows.

OP I’d welcome you on the bus. As menopausal and overweight I feel the heat.

Is there any possibility of you cycling to work?

That is not going to happen! No one is going to have to leave a class without a teacher because of a chilly draught on the bus

The window by my seat then, if you want to be pedantic

Windows should always be open on public transport. Surely people are wearing coats if it's a cold day anyway? Honestly the thought of all those germs and no fresh air circulating is absolutely vile.

So be uncomfortable then - it is not the same as leaving students without a teacher is it. Most bus journeys are pretty uncomfortable either way.

such as what exactly? if there was an alternative, don't you think Id be using it?

It certainly helps

There is never anyone behind me when I open the window. The bus fills up with window slammers later on in the journey

I think Ive met her.

I’d be irritated by someone opening windows on a cold day. Just because you’re immunocompromised OP, doesn’t mean everyone else has to be cold.

The thing is when you open the window near you it's people sitting in other places who get a horrible cold draft on the back of the next.

Bus windows need to more flexible so you can have some ventilation without it getting cold.

I don't think public transport is for you..

sure, not every illness, but many do. it is the only time I am that close to people, and it is the only time I'm ever stuck in an unventilated space

I'm not well enough to cycle or walk or un to work, when I am fit and well, I do. but that is likely to be years away still

Isn't a class room a bug fest anyway? You must be quite close to the students I would of thought

I'm not immunocompromised but I'd rather be cold than catch a virus.