No. No you’re not. Because you’re wearing that backpack over your cheap suit on your commute on the DC Metro train during rush hour. Just like 40 of your closest and equally inconsiderate a-hole friends on this car alone. Why do you think it’s okay to wear your backpack on a busy train during rush hour? I’ll tell you why. Because you’re a bunch of selfish fucking twats, that’s why. Cunts.
I carry a backpack to work. Are you saying I like to push it in people’s faces on the subway? Because I don’t. I’m very considerate. I drive instead.
When I was on my AT thru hike, and took a detour to Long Island via NYC, I would place my backpack at my feet (if standing). Thru hikers will not typically wear their pack when not needed.
Um, I’m pretty sure OP is not criticizing actual AT thru hikers who happen to be on a train.
I did NOT expect this to be about backpacks.
I see people at the airport with those enormous backpacks that stick out about two feet. They’ll abruptly turn to look at something and their mega-backpack slams into you. Of course, they’re oblivious to this, because it’s happening behind them and isn’t part of their reality.
On BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) we have signs about this.
I don’t know, OP, maybe you could just, you know, step the fuck back and not interfere with backpacks and personal space. Hiking on the Appalachian Trail is a bucket list item, and you’d best not piss on someone’s parade. People in DC need to lighten the fuck up - get out more. I’ve done my fair share of time on the AT and it leads to individual growth and enlightenment. Some people reading this post might want to shove their backpacks in places that don’t get much sunlight. Just sayin’.
In other words, you don’t know what’s going on in this thread.
That was my first thought, too. I’m not hiking the Appalachian Trail in either sense.
I also don’t wear my backpack on the metro, 'cuz we ain’t got one near me. But when I did ride the subway, I kept my bag on the floor between my feet or in my lap.
I totally know what’s going on. Maybe chill out with a chillada.
While wearing a business suit?
Just be glad that you don’t share a train with molten.
I often have a backpack on while I’m on mass transit.
It has my computer in it. I need my computer where I’m going. It’s my job. I’m here during rush hour for the same reason you’re here during rush hour.
For portions of my transit I am only riding two stops’ worth. Yes, I know the train is crowded. One characteristic of a crowded train is that it makes it nigh well impossible to put the backpack back on without taking out six of you as it swings around in an arc. Damn thing’s heavy. Still, yeah, if I judge that taking it off makes the difference between someone being able to get on or having to stand there frustrated watching the doors close in their face, I take it off. Then when I get to my stop I have to haul it like a suitcase and barge past you and put the thing on once I’m on the subway platform.
I dunno, maybe I reek of a sense of entitlement, thinking that because I have a job and this equipment is required for it, and that it would cost me a shitload of money to get here by means other than public transportation, that you other commuters can just jolly well put up with me and my backpack.
Neither did I.
No, you definitely do not.
Here’s a tip: This thread’s got nothing to do with actually hiking the Appalachian Trail.
It’s hard to say, actually. But he might know what a chillada is (hope he tells us).
I’m not sure which rouses my sympathy more; the sucky commute, or the fact that your employer makes you take your work equipment home with you (or does your employer make you provide your own computer? ‘Cos that would be even worse).
its a mex beer with real lime in it …
But there’s been bitching about things like this for as long as there’s been public transportation …
I remember when a lot of women used those mini backpacks (that cane after fanny packs) because people were bitching about how big purses had gotten… Now full backpacks are a thing for everyone
So you’re yelling in the wind…