City Life, Part One: Open Seats Mirage by Greg Silva · Published January 23, 2011 · Updated August 8, 2017 A version of this piece was recorded for the SRP Radio Podcast. Stream or Download Can I Sit In the “No Farting” Section? When you get on a train, and you see a bunch of open seats at one end of the car, and it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Nine times out of ten, you get there only to be hit with an ODOR! And then you have to walk back from whence you came, with everyone looking at you like, “Dumbass, why do ya think we’re not sitting there!?”