Recently a friend of mine managed to catch public transport without the anxiety that her usual state of agarophobia causes. We left the house wearing kiddie's masks: Her a cat mask, me a bear mask. We had licence to act silly all the way to the train station and beyond. Actually half way-to the station I suggested she close her eyes and let me lead her. She trusted me. Once in Melbourne's main train station I asked her to open her eyes because inspectors got off the train with us and we did not want to draw more attention to us than the masks already did (we did not buy tickets >:) We remained (verbally) silent as we waited for the next train and played silly games on hands and knees. During most of this it was as if we were invisible. Because there were two of us (if you do it on your own you *must* be insane, eh? ;) and because we were so obviously having a good time we nevertheless attracted a few smiles & thumbs-up signals. Not many: abot 1% of those that saw us. ______________________________________________ Transcribed for the Undesirable Propagation Unit.