Yeah, Captain Amazing, but at least he wasn’t a tourist.
But you’re not supposed to say it. The official line is that there is no such thing as racism against white people.
How many Jamals do you know that you can so comfortably generalize?:dubious:
Maybe he meant shirt-wearers.
I assume it’s because the train was leaving in 2 minutes when he got to the station and he didn’t want to risk missing it and waiting 15 minutes for the next one.
True enough. I’ve been riding the DC metro for 12 years, and tourists are the bane of every commuter’s existence. Seriously, people of the United States, there are other places you can vacation in and take your 50 kid school groups to. And if you’re going to come, stand on the right, at least.
Don’t they have add-a-fare machines within the gates for just this situation?
I did! PTJMEE was working it. I did exactly what an honest citizen would do. I could have easily tailgated my way back out the gate and pretended to have a metro card. I’ve done that before when I accidentally miss my timed slot through the gate. No problem whatsoever.
Why didn’t I go to the starting station’s kiosk? Because by the time I was done screwing around with the machines, the train was pulling in. No time.
Those fuckers with GEDs don’t deserve to live. I suppose if he was on welfare instead of working, we’d be treated to an earful of that.
Why the hate for tourists? I love tourists! As a NYC resident I am fully aware that the entire reason this city has the museums, restaurants, shows, and events I love is because of the tourists who come here and spend their money in my fair city. In fact the only reason we have such rockin’ public transportation at such a low cost to me is because of all the tourists. Seriously, I can go anywhere in the city at pretty much any time of day or night for less than $90 per month because of the millions of people that spend 4 or 5 days here at a time and pay $2.25 per ride to supplement the MTA cash flow. If you have an issue with tourists in your city please send them here! I would love to have more people pouring their dollars into my local economy even if it does mean I have to wait for a train every now and again.
I, too, have an incredibly large penis. Or, I would if I were male. What if the female equivalent of “My dick is bigger than yours?” Because whatever it is, it’s true.
Well, I was actually being sarcastic because of the OP’s mention of how he was wearing a slacks and a tie instead of a fanny pack. Clearly, jumping the line is a-OK as long as a fanny pack isn’t involved. I think the jury’s still out when it comes to carrying a camera and wearing shorts.
ETA: Also, I’m kind of confused as to what the OP wanted the worker to do. The guy clearly couldn’t add money on the train, so why was he telling him instead of asking the station manager?
I say this as a long-time DC resident.
Are you an intern?
Because this type of arrogance and “the rules don’t apply to me because I’m awesome” is very common among petulant young men and women who assume that because they have worked in some Big Government Office in Charge of Something Big for a whole two months, they can do anything they want.
You jumped a turnstile and blamed it on everyone but yourself. You should have gotten a citation from Metro Police.
Next time, stand in the fucking line with everyone else. And get off your high horse, you self-important little shit.
After you broke the law, which is kind of the problem.
The add a fare machine is when you go in with your card, but then don’t have enough money on your card to pay the exit fare. So, if you have a $1.50 on your card, and go in, and then at the end of your ride, the fare is $2, you can use the add-a-fare machine to put on the extra 50 cents.
The OP just walked through the gate without putting his fare card in, so the card doesn’t have any record of his entry into the system, so it can’t figure out the fare.
Those damn uppity negroes, fucking up the white man’s day yet again. When will appropriate legislation be passed? I bet it’s the liberal PC douches in Congress who are holding it up.
DC Metro was Federally funded; we all paid for it, so we all have the right to use it. If we’re smart enough to figure out the rules, that is.
Most tourist days start rather late–if commuters get annoyed, perhaps they ought to leave for work earlier.
They have the machines, but not for this situation. Those machines are for when you don’t have enough money to exit your gate. That wasn’t my problem. My issue was that I didn’t have enough money to enter the gate. So my ticket wouldn’t work in an exit gate anyway, because it doesn’t “know” where I got on the train, so it doesn’t know what to charge me. You can’t use a ticket to exit if it was never used to enter.
I explicitly said I didn’t hate the tourists, so you can’t have them. They’re a net benefit, but that doesn’t mean there’s no cost. They dump money into the city and give us a reason to have so many museums, restaurants, and shows. But they also get in your way. It’s not their fault, and I signed up for the deal when I moved here, but that doesn’t make it fun to experience.
I should mention that this week has been particularly bad with the tourists because the Boy Scouts are in town, and as you know, they move in troops. So you can be standing there in a normal crowd and then all of a sudden, there’s 50 or 60 people pushing onto the platform or into the museum or booking all the restaurant tables. Or worse- trying to navigate Metro. They stare at the ticket machines like they’re robots from the future and they look at the map like it’s a plate of spaghetti.
This morning, I couldn’t get to the only working ticket machine because one such troop was there. I’m not kidding when I say there were 50 people in line.
Exactly my thought. You just beat me too it.
This one time an ATM ate my debit card, so there were those few days I when I had to rely on cash while waiting on my card. In order to get cash, though, I had to go into a branch, so I was all, “Fuck this. I don’t want to wait in line with those fucking chumps.” I just walked into stores and demanded they gave me stuff. “Cut out the lip, toots,” I would say, “I need things now, and I’m not about to wait in any lines or give you a card with any money on it like some two-bit chump.” Bitch shut up and just gave me what I asked for, due to my massive she-penis.
So you’re 15 minutes later than you would otherwise have been. Is this that big a deal that you’re willing to fare jump? I really don’t get this mentality.