Let's talk public transporation etiquette...

[Trigger Hippie]

My pet peeve when I'm on the train is when people cross their legs, thereby blocking half the damn aisle. Grrrrrr... I always think to myself: Improper train etiquette! Citizens arrest! Citizens arrest! What's your beef with the people who make public transporation all the more annoying?

:)

[indy_azcat]

1. standing room only on the bus

and the fucks don't move all the way to the back. :mad:

[wtmusic]

2. Audible music

Loud cell phone talking. Noise that I don't want to listen to.

Eew.

[Burma Jones]

3. Also - Don't yell in your cell phone

And take a fucking shower.

[barb162]

39. I would love to see cellphone only cars and cellphone free cars.

Then let the mindless cellphone users drive each other nuts with their inane chattering and let those who want peace and quiet have peace and quiet

[Patiod]

52. Amtrak has "quiet cars"

I love them!

[Cobalt Violet]

4. Backpacks and shopping bags taking up seats...

While people have to stand.

[datasuspect]

17. "EXCUSE ME"

and just start sitting down works very effectively.

it helps to shoot a nasty look too.

[Patiod]

28. "Unless your bags have a ticket of their own, they have to sit

on the floor or on the overhead racks"
- Amtrak conductor announcement

[Cobalt Violet]

54. Damn!

That's a wild looking avatar you have there. Can you post a regular sized picture of that puppy?

[barb162]

48. and when you ask them to move their shit, they give you a dirty look

[Mutley]

5. People who don't give up seats for the elderly or disabled.

On the buses here there are even signs that say you should do that, but so many don't. I think that is just mean.

[Bluzmann57]

6. Screamers and BO

Take a bath already. And keep in mind that we are all in the same relatively cramped area, so there is no need to yell at the person next to you.

[tk2kewl]

7. I hate when some one gets on the subway first and then refuses to step in

away from the door. Everyone that follows has to squeeze by the jerk.

[sniffa]

9. i just knock them over

serves 'em right.

[tk2kewl]

11. I definitely shove as I go by

[sniffa]

14. a nice pointy eLbow to their ribs works weLL too

[Trigger Hippie]

21. And when the drivers say

Move to the back! Fucking move to the back! Don't block people in! And I hate it when you're sitting and they guy's twig and berries are right in your face. I know they can't help it, but I just needed to get my hatred of having strange guys' goodies in my face off my chest. Thank you.

:P

[barb162]

50. dupe

[barb162]

51. I am laughing out loud right now!!!!!!!! This is precious

[Lisa]

55. hey, which public transit system do you ride?

Because that would be a heck of a lot more action than I've been getting lately!

[Trigger Hippie]

60. Boston

Green line trains. :) Lotsa hot guys.:thumbsup:

[Mutley]

15. I hate when people stand in front of doors ANYWHERE!

I went to the grocery store the other day and this woman was standing right in front of the door with a cart just reading the coupon book. At least move up a few feet so people can get around you! :eyes:

[Mizmoon]

8. How about the time I nearly died on the train

and no one helped me. I think that when you see someone on the floor of the car despite their fancy work clothes, vomiting, and gasping "oh God I can't breathe" that you should, you know, help them.

It was an alergic reaction. I called myself an ambulance from the next station and was in the hospital overnight.

[Trigger Hippie]

10. Oh, God,

that's awful. :(

[Mutley]

12. Sheesh, that's awful!

How could anyone just walk by someone in that situation?

[Mizmoon]

13. dude, one guy was laughing

I'm not sure why. Maybe I looked funny.

[Mutley]

19. Ugh! He'll get his one day.

One day he'll have a medical problem in public and people will not only walk by him without helping, they'll walk OVER him.

I don't get people who get their kicks from other people's misfortune. At work this past winter this woman slipped in some ice in the parking lot and broke her wrist, and the guy I was working with just laughed! :eyes:

[Patiod]

16. Any loud talk - cell phone or person-to-person

Some skinny little hopped-up bitch was yelling across the train to someone she knew. "How's Ed? Last time I saw him he was looking for a job! I saw Sheila last week! She came over when my parents were gone" (she mimes drinking) "we did some partying! What are you doing this summer?!"

I kept looking at her.

"Am I annoying you?", she yelled at me.

"Why don't you just go sit with your friend instead of yelling across the whole train so everyone can hear your business?" I knew she was incapable of shutting up, so I moved to the front of the train.

[barb162]

40. can you imagine this happening 20 or 30 years ago. I can't

People didn't do stuff like that back then. Something is going bad with our manners these days

[AngryAmish]

18. Not taking your meds

Having a long conversation out loud with god about how you've been screwed over.

Talking on cell phones too.

[Cassandra]

20. Guys who sit with their legs spread W I D E...

so that they take up two seats. You'd think they had something there to show off.

[Patiod]

26. They always sit next to me on planes

I have poked more than one of them with a pen to make them stay in their own personal space.

[Trigger Hippie]

27. Yeah, and then they

give you a look when you accidentally touch their leg with yours, like it's on purpose or something. Hey dude, you're not sexy, get a clue!

[barb162]

38. oh, that's another one really annoying

[Gormy Cuss]

49. Ooh, the double wide leggers were my pet peeve in Boston

Boys, your package will be just fine tucked between your legs. I promise. I used to sit down pretending I hadn't noticed. You'd be surprised how quickly they snap those legs together. But then, my nickname was 'subway woman.'

[Squeech]

22. All of the above

but particular contempt for the self-important people who park themselves in the doors and the ones who announce their romantic achievements on their cell phones.

Special thanks to the T for making it impossible to get to my day job in a good mood. I hate going home too, but once I get there I can recover.

(I do enjoy hearing people have friendly and animated conversations, especially in languages I don't speak.)

[Trigger Hippie]

23. Ya know,

at first I liked hearing conversations in other languages, but then I started getting annoyed because I wanted to know what they were saying. Then, I could mock their lame-ass conversation skills.

BTW, it was great meeting you and Mrs. Squeech at the bbq Sat. :hi:

[sniffa]

24. eh, i can't stand hearing the cantonese any more

they shout so fucking Loud at each other.

the worst thing - rather than sit together, they sit on opposite sides of the train so they have to yeLL Louder. my god! when i wanna taLk to somebody, i sit cLose to them. i aLso never yeLL (when the train's Loud) because it's fucking rude.

[the_spectator]

57. Cantonese is LOUD!!!

Its speakers always sound like they're about to break out into a knife fight, but of course they aren't. (Lived in Hong Kong for a while.) Never learned the language, but I will always remember the word for "no" -- MOAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! -- always full-throated too, like the "no" the hero in a crime flick screams to the heavens when he finds that special person murdered. When half the time it's got to be as everyday blah as, "Hey, d'you have lunch yet?" - "MOAAAHHHHHH!!!"

[Squeech]

29. You too

:hi:

There are interesting patterns. I ride the orange line, and I hear mostly the Iberian languages, Spanish and Portuguese. (The latter is great, that's the language I'm trying to learn.)

On the red line I sometimes hear weird guttural phonemes I can't even tie to a specific continent!

[Cassandra]

31. Sounds like Boston

I'm in NY where, thankfully, cellphones don't work underground.

[Trigger Hippie]

33. Cellphones don't work underground

in Boston either. We have a lot of above ground trolleys though. Everyone breaks out the cell phone at the same time. :eyes: :)

[Cassandra]

41. I spent a lot of time on the green line...

before the age of cellphones.

[Trigger Hippie]

42. That must have been

delightful. Quieter than now, for sure. :hi:

:)

[kick-ass-bob]

25. standing in front of the doors on a train

thereby blocking anyone else from getting on.

[sniffa]

30. that's the best

it's even better when, they have Luggage, and they fought, kicked and stomped their way to the front to make sure they were first on the train... onLy to stop at the doorway.

[northzax]

36. yeah, the tourists love that on the Metro

they get buffeted around a lot....

my pet peeve? same as everyone in DC: Walk Left, Stand Right.

[Blue Belle]

32. Deodorant - live it, learn it, love it.

That is my pet peeve at the gym too... People who's "O" has left the "B" and lingers in the air forever. It's either they do not wear deodorant, or they wear too much perfume - why can't people find a balance?? :(

[Tyrone Slothrop]

34. Got two peeves

1. People who try to get on the train/bus before everyone as exited. Slows everything down for everyone and generally creates hostility and irritibility.

2. People who exit at the front of the bus and delay those of us trying to get on. A friend of mine used to be a bus driver and posted a sign in her bus:

"Please treat the bus like a lady. Only enter at the front and only exit at the rear."

Still cracks me up...

[Trigger Hippie]

37. hahahaha

great one!! :hi:

[KurtNYC]

44. Oh yeah

I would like to do a short film on this one. It is as fascinating as it is annoying. There is a subway line in NYC that just goes from Times Square to Grand Central; back and forth all day. It is crowded in the morning. People line up at Time Square and leave a gap where the doors of the train will be when it stops. So you see 2 lines with a big gap in the middle.

At rush hour, the train will pull in and people will pile out while most of the people lined up to get on will wait. BUT young-20s goodlooking females will plow straight through all of the people getting off (like a salmon going upstream), pass all the people waiting properly and get on ahead of everyone.

It isn't a huge problem for me because the trains are just ridiculously crowded and the whoel ride lasts 60 seconds. But it is an interesting social phenom.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

47. Fortunately, I never have to go that part of town!

I usually encounter that at Bowling Green, Wall Street, Union Square and Borough Hall in Brooklyn.

I wonder if it has to do with tourists vs. locals? (Most of the stops mentioned have large tourist draws.)

It's not so much an issue of time as it is an issue of civility and provoking short tempers. My morning gets off to a hellish beginning when I'm trying to get off the train and a group of people is shoving their way in before we've all exited.

Grrrr... could trigger some sort of spree were I a more stressed-out person.

[barb162]

35. getting bruises from constantly being slammed by every damned

sharp-edged laptop slung over everyone's shoulders.

[KurtNYC]

45. Umbrellas, people who don't hold on, people who don't let go

1) People bring their wet umbrella closed and dripping and if you happen to be seated - guess where it is dripping?

2) People get on and stand in whatever position, hold on to nothing and then when the train takes off (or they hit the brakes hard) they go bumping and stumbling into everyone else.

3) (and just to complete some circular bitching...) People who don't let go. The doors open, people start to shuffle to get out and these people have to hold that rail to last possible moment; could have both feet out on the platform and the arm is still back in the train, holding the rail and blocking you.

[drencrom]

43. shower

I think the most important part is to shower in the morning! I can't stress this enough, people!

[Old_Fart]

46. Farting

Move to the back of the bus as soon as you fart. That way you can spread the smell around and you won't get blamed. :evilgrin:

[distantearlywarning]

53. Accosting strangers with unwanted conversation.

Apparently some people think the act of reading a book and listening to music through headphones is a clear social signal that the reader-listener is in desperate need of meaningless polite conversation with strange people. I HATE it when the person next to me gets my attention, I turn off the music, and then they say, "Nice weather we're having today, huh?" GAH! :nuke: WTF is that all about??? You're such a huge attention whore that you literally can't stand to have a stranger sitting next to you who isn't 100% focused on you for all of a 5 minute bus ride???

Second to this peeve is when parents idly look out the bus window while their child screams, rolls in the aisle, stands on the seat, and engages in all kinds of other unsafe and irritating behaviors. I once witnessed a little girl take gum out of her mouth and stick it in the hair of the person in front of her. Her mother watched her do it and didn't say a word. This is the kind of thing that makes people say they hate kids. It may be misplaced hate (because the mother is clearly the problem here), but I'm just saying there are sometimes some good reasons behind those feelings.

[jmm]

58. Then there's accosting strangers with an unwanted religions

I'm a magnet for both.

[LizW]

59. I had to make my mother stop doing that

She's a sweet little lady who has lived in the south all her life and she talks to EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE. Plus, she's hard of hearing and she talks LOUD.

On the Metro in Washington last year, I had to explain, Mother, these people are going to work. They aren't in the mood for conversation. See the newspapers? They want to read.

So finally she just started talking to me, LOUDLY. And in order for her to hear me over the train, I had to answer, LOUDLY. We were such a freakshow.

:eyes: :blush:

[jmm]

56. A friend and I were on the commuter rail recently and

over heard a guy getting who, unlike most people that only share half their conversations with the world, decided to curse out his girlfriend who wanting to dump him on a Nextel. Normally I am obnoxious enough to offer advice, after all if you scream anything in public don't expect it to stay private, but he had just gotten out of prison.

Oh yeah and if you want to watch some cheap porn ride Attleboro/Providence line after a Red Sox game. Nothin' like a drunk victory celebration.

[Trigger Hippie]

61. My latest annoyances:

People who put their bags on an empty seat.

AND: Those crazy freaks who DON'T sit down when a chair becomes available. What the hell is wrong with these people????

[sniffa]

62. i never sit

there's aLways someone who needs the seat more than me.

[Trigger Hippie]

63. Well, that's nice of you.

But why on earth would NO ONE sit? That drives me nuts!!!

:hi:

:)

[sniffa]

64. easy

the Last person sitting there had an accident.

[Trigger Hippie]

65. .

:crazy: :rofl:

[trigz]

66. Bodily odour of all kinds, but especially

on a crowded bus or tram, I can't stand people with breaths to make you think something has crawled down. It's worse than having stinky armpits, since they will breathe right in your face. At least you can opt to keep your nose clear of their armpits. Absolutely cannot stand that.

Oh, and people who insist on trying out every single ringing tone on their cellular phone piss me off in a big, big way.