Goggle-bluffing is the train passenger’s trick of averting your line of eyesight so as to fool other passengers into not taking the seat next to you. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Google-Bluffing”
Here is another made-up word that you’ll see on trains in Ireland now as part of the give up your seat campaign, trying to nudge people to be generous by letting people sit on the seat next to them.
I guess they’re pretty crowded trains there.
This term is a verb. It’s goggle bluffing. And it means to subtly avert one’s eyes or bluff the direction of one’s goggles, usually committing to a line of sight that avoids eye contact with any passenger in desperate need of a seat.
Have you not done that? Have we not all been there? Oh, probably. Oh, I am so busted. I’ve done all of these things. But sometimes it depends on the person. I mean, on the subways in New York, like when the person comes in who clearly hasn’t bathed in a while and they’ve got nine bags of things.
Yeah. But don’t they need a seat? They probably need a seat more than you do. They do. But you goggle bluff. Sometimes. Yeah, you kind of just… I’m a bad man.
Well, what is it? The thing is, all of these terms come back to the fact that when you make eye contact with a human being, you are giving them a gift of your attention. You are. And you are suggesting that you are willing to deal with them. And so much of this is an avoidance of that eye contact, that basic human interaction that says, I acknowledge you. Isn’t that communication in its basic form, right?
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