Comments on: On Personal Space

By: Ivette

Ivette — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:44:07 +0000

Me encanta tu blog, de vez en cuando entro a revisar lo que has escrito y también tus amigos. Es muy inteligente y creativo, felicitaciones desde Chile, Sudamérica!.

My English sucks, that’s why I wrote in Spanish first. Now, here’s the English version:

I love your blog, I have included it it in my favourites and I come in from time to time to see the news. I found it very intelligent and creative. I have learned a lot of the life and thinking of the young people “so far away” from my own country. Congratulations from Chile, South America!!

By: Fatima

Fatima — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:54:44 +0000

You could carry one of these around with you, or pass them out to people who have a hard time understanding the concept:

http://davidseah.com/blog/comments/a-chindogu-social-yardstick/

By: Amer

Amer — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:53:57 +0000

Every time I got off a bus in Jordan, I remember thinking “did I just have clothed sex with 5 people?”

LOL

There’s no such thing as a bubble back home. No idea why.

You’d think the culture with the more conservative people would be the one to frown upon groping passengers and standing leg-over-leg on busses and waiting lines in public. But no.

Thou shalt not have sex before you get married. Dry hump EVERYONE though.

lol

By: Zain H.

Zain H. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:49:45 +0000

I don’t mind this whole personal space issue as long as I don’t feel short for air… in other words when I can smell body odors then they’re too damn close! But when you can’t move or walk away, trapped behind your own desk at work like I currently am at the moment, how do you ask him/her to move away without sounding rude? Especially if they are older, and decide how much you earn at the end of the month…?
Personally, I keep dropping my pen and drop down for a bubble of air…

By: ghaloosh

ghaloosh — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:48:27 +0000

i totaly agree with the personal space issue, i hate when people ignore it. I emphasize on it the most while eating and in the malls !!!!!!

By: Hani Obaid

Hani Obaid — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:16:40 +0000

I don’t mind so much someone being close as when they think it’s ok to touch you. A pat on the back, a brush of the forearm, a hug. All good things from family or an intimate are a nuisance from everyone else.

By: Khalidah

Khalidah — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:27:48 +0000

I agree with Hareega :)

keefek??

Long time no see … I miss you :)

By: Hareega

Hareega — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:09:58 +0000

then you’re living in the wrong country

By: whocares

whocares — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:18:48 +0000

thanks for the education but who cares about fuc*ing personal space

By: Yazan

Yazan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:43:05 +0000

I totally agree,

I love my personal space, and I am very protective of it.