1. The woman opposite me has headphones on
2. I’m on train (or carriage) 3140, my birthday and my age in 9 years.
3. The seats are the old flat kind. I don’t pay notice because they always are
4. All the hand straps are intact down one end at least. Does anyone use them?
5. There’s a camera to my right, but I can’t see one at the end like there normally is
6. The driver is gray, balding, wears glasses. The guy spoke to me and I couldn’t have recalled any of those things if you asked.
7. There are 2 emergency exit sunroofs and 1 exit window, all the way at the other end of the bus.
8. There are 6 straps to hold onto on this bus
9. There are 3 4 no smoking signs and they’re all 3 are down this end, at the back where the school kids sit.
10. There’s a bright red light that flashes “Warning No Ramp” when the doors open. I wouldn’t have noticed it if it didn’t flash.
11. Bonus: the cover of this book has texture on the title I hadn’t noticed.
    
    

I happened to be sitting on a train (and then exactly half way through I transferred to a bus). The exercise was to “Write ten things about where you are right now that you hadn’t noticed when you sat down”. It was difficult to find anything to notice, because when you hop on a train that looks like every other train you’ve ever caught, you tend to take in that it’s something you’ve seen before and forget about it and read your book. The first exercise was both difficult and surprisingly rewarding. I *did* notice things. Bring on number 2!