Don't be the asshole

[Prometeo liberado]

Standard mass transit etiquette demands that you move over to let others have the open seat, right? Lately I've been running into people pretending to be on their celly and taking up two seats! And you know I'm calling you out on this! I've been riding buses and trains from Brooklyn to D.C.to L. GODDAMN A. And for some reason this asshole has a reoccurring role in my commute lately. WTF?! Am I alone in this?

[Jimmie Higgins]

Ha ha. When I see tech yuppies on Bart taking up two seats I specifically ask to sit there to make them move. Most etiquette is just empty politeness that I disregard, but some of it is like social custom to navigate real shit, and so breeches of that really sets me off. The trains are fucking crowded, don't fucking stand at the door not letting other people in just coz you want first pole position for the transfer over to San franfuckincisco!

Damn, sorry. I've just been in so many arguments with assholes on the subway lately. The best one was that I got in an argument with a drunk frat bro once and he got in my face like he wanted to fight. I said told him he was on the wrong train because this one doesn't stop at Dawson's creek... Everyone on the train laughed at him when I said that and he left to a different car.:lol:

Another time I was going to work and there was a USC vs. uc Berkeley game that day and a bunch of drunk USC students were on the train and yelling about how poor people in the Bay Area are that they need public transportation. Fucking hell, this society sometimes.

[Prometeo liberado]

My train runs by fucking USC and it's not a nice 'hood. But there's always a drunk friend of student mouthen off scaring the shit out of his buddy who knows that no one has a problem cutting him up.
fucking assholes!

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Two seats?

Amurrrica! Freeeeedom!

[Thirsty Crow]

I ride buses, trams and trains fairly often here. Never seen or heard of someone taking two seats.

Americans.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I ride buses, trams and trains fairly often here. Never seen or heard of someone taking two seats.

Americans.

I once saw an older woman drag a tree, a bloody tree, into a bus, and take up something like three seats (two seats in one row and one in the next row). If we add to that the elderly, the sick, the disabled and infirm who magically develop a capacity to sprint whenever a bus or tram comes, I've pretty much become blase to ridiculous sights in public transport, both in Zagreb and Split.

[Prometeo liberado]

I hope it's just an american thing. It happens all th time. If there are two seats side by side someone will take the outside seat so to discourage people from trying to sit next to them.blocking the seat. Should I say it? ASSHOLE!!

[Sasha]

Trains here its a given that everybody will block the second seat with a bag or jacket, and will make a whole "why are you picking on me" sigh spectacle if you ask them wheter you can sit there.

Also; people who stand still on the wrong side of the escalator preventing you from catching your train need to be slowely tortured to death.

[PhoenixAsh]

People should take a train earlier if it is that important to be on time...
Plus of course I bought a ticket for my bag. So it has a right to sit...

:tt2::tt2::tt2:

[Prometeo liberado]

Trains here its a given that everybody will block the second seat with a bag or jacket, and will make a whole "why are you picking on me" sigh spectacle if you ask them wheter you can sit there.

Also; people who stand still on the wrong side of the escalator preventing you from catching your train need to be slowely tortured to death.

You feel me. I knew that you could!
Also, left side of the escalator is for the runners.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

I really think it's good to have proper manners. I don't mean in an upper-class kind of way, but in actually trying to just be alright to other people.

Most Londoners i've ever met go out of their way to be annoyed at your existence in queues, traffic jams, on the pavement, on the tube etc. They get in such a huff about it. It's such a nicer and less stressful world when you just allow that sort of shit.

[Tim Cornelis]

From the sounds of it, it appears this happens way more often in the Netherlands than in the USA or elsewhere.

[Prometeo liberado]

From the sounds of it, it appears this happens way more often in the Netherlands than in the USA or elsewhere.

Really? When lived in NYC I almost never was reminded of this. Sure there was the pushing and all that but empty seats could not or would not be "guarded".
Netherlands, really??:confused:

[Crabbensmasher]

Nah, people are pretty polite here. It's nice.

I'm always weirded out my the amount of people using their cellphones on the bus (As in everyone). I think they've become afraid to make eye contact, or any other type of contact, so they desperately glue their attention to their phones.

[motion denied]

Don't pretend to be asleep to avoid ceding preferred seating, motherfucker.

[Prometeo liberado]

Yeah, the cell phone looking down and away trick to keep from having to move over is waaaay played out. I see you dickhead and yes I'm gonna tap that shoulder and talk a hella of a lot louder till you move your ass. Then I'm gonna stare you down till we get to my stop. I stupid and crazy, I get to do that shit to assholes.

[Sasha]

Really? When lived in NYC I almost never was reminded of this. Sure there was the pushing and all that but empty seats could not or would not be "guarded".
Netherlands, really??:confused:

Oh, people here are the worst, I was traveling rush our with my baby niece in a sling a while back and the only people offering their seat where elderly ladies who I declined, all the teens and twenties pretended one moment I, nor the screaming baby even existed.

[Tim Cornelis]

Nah, people are pretty polite here. It's nice.

I'm always weirded out my the amount of people using their cellphones on the bus (As in everyone). I think they've become afraid to make eye contact, or any other type of contact, so they desperately glue their attention to their phones.

How's that weird? You have nothing to do in the bus, so why not read the news? You really want people to just stare ("eye contact") at each other? Now that's weird. It's also no new phenomenon, people used to read the paper instead.

[slum]

The trains are fucking crowded, don't fucking stand at the door not letting other people in just coz you want first pole position for the transfer over to San franfuckincisco!

this is the thing that drives me nuts on the T more than anything else. come on folks, move to the middle of the damn car, we're all in this together. nothing pisses me off like the one guy who'll shove to the front of a crowd trying to pack onto an orange line train at 8am rush hour only to step in and stand stock still in the doorway as if everyone important has arrived and the train can get on moving now.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Not a crowded day, but even when there are no empty seats and lots of people coming on, people sit like this (usually not as many farmers on the train tho)

http://s3-media2.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/b-zZC4QsoXV25GEv7i-nnQ/o.jpg

[Art Vandelay]

That man has a fantastic beard and the overalls with no under shirt is a nice touch.

[Prometeo liberado]

Not a crowded day, but even when there are no empty seats and lots of people coming on, people sit like this (usually not as many farmers on the train tho)

http://s3-media2.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/b-zZC4QsoXV25GEv7i-nnQ/o.jpg

This is what im talking about.
Now there's a guy blaring his music real loud as if we all care for r-kelley right now!