metro door for more missed connections

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Taken from the last paragraph of a recent Slate article on the psychology of travelling underground:

Has the era of the electronically immersed commuter, oblivious to all around him, lost in his playlists, signaled a decline in subway psychology? Not that I can find. One recent study conducted by officials at the Paris Metro—which looked at “missed connection” ads placed by urbanites looking for love in the city—found that the Metro “is without doubt the foremost producer of urban tales about falling in love.” The seats closest to the door, it seemed, offered the best opportunities for falling in love with the proper stranger. “The Metro is not the emotional desert, the social vacuum, that we sometimes believe it to be,” observed the chief of the Paris Metro. Indeed, whether bystanders or participants, we’re all part of an ongoing experiment.

So, sit on the seats closest to the door to boost your chances of having a missed connection. Better still, at the moment you have that connection, grab some courage, get off your bum and talk to the person so it doesn’t ever become a missed connection! (But if it does we’re here for you )