I guess everyone has met people in stations or on trains, and therefore, you’ll know how random it can be. Initially, you don’t know how much time you have to do your seducing, and it could be that the person you meet lives 100’s of miles away.

Anyway, last year, I read a theory about meeting women on trains. It was published in real book on dating that you might buy in a bookshop (not one of these e-book numbers that any lunatic can publish); so the theory must have had a significant amount of testing, and then been subjected to editorial review by the publisher… or had it?

It went something like this: Women tend to wear shoes with heels, which although they make them more attractive, tend to be uncomfortable to walk long distances or run in. Therefore, on a train, it’s more likely that their will be a higher concentration of women travelling at the back of the train, that the front, since they wouldn’t want to travel the length of the platform to find an emptier carriage, wearing uncomfortable shoes.

Okay, I’ve never worn shoes with heels, but I’ve often heard women talking about them being uncomfortable, and I can’t think or any reason for people to lie about this. Therefore, it seems like a plausible hypothesis; as I doubt anyone would want to travel far in uncomfortable shoes; but it still hasn’t been tested in the real world.

So, armed with my new found information, and wondering if perhaps books on dating had changed for the better, I made sure I travelled in the last carriage of trains I took.

Result: no significant increase in the numbers of women met, and additionally I was threatened and very nearly assaulted by gangs of Hoodie thugs, twice in a month, even though I had chosen to ignore them.

Now, something was very wrong here; the author was obviously a fantasist, who did not care if the readers were put in danger. But then I suppose people desperate to make quick money with dubious information have only been encouraged by the likes of John ‘Fake PhD‘ Gray and his ilk.

I wondered how exactly the information had gone wrong; it has seemed plausible enough for me to test it. So, I spend a short while as a train spotter, and watched what happened when women boarded trains.

The answer is that women clearly have more sense than “Dating experts” give them credit for. They get to the platform barrier, remove their shoes and walk or run to an emptier carriage further down the train, thus negating any theory about a higher percentage travelling in the last carriage.

I suspect that they have either seen the Hoodie thugs board the last carriage or they intuit that lazy street trash have a tendency to travel in the last carriage and therefore they avoid them.

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Posted by Jonathan in Art & Literature, Sociology