When all of you get in the car without letting people inside to get out, you increase the density of people in the carriage and therefore you make it difficult for people wanting to get out to exit the car.
A couple of times some idiot rammed me into the car as I was trying to get out and because of that ramming I lost my balance and I was nearly falling into the gap between the car and the platform.
Why these idiots have no respect for other people:
Arguably because: They are uncivilized. Or They don’t have manners. Or They glorify being an asshole. Or They are evil. Or They didn’t have parents teaching them how to act properly amongst other people or they didn’t have parents at all. Or a mix of some/all aforementioned reasons. Or for some other reasons. Not sure.
How to solve this:
Pfff. I don’t know. Get a car? No. Train is comfy, quick and safe. When you have a car, you have to park it. Hard to find a available place to park my car. Bicycle? Not as fast as the train. But I love bicycling anyway.
What maddens me: the amount of fucktards doing that. I hope all of them immediately die in excruciating pain, assholes.
I get to the station early enough that if a train comes in packed, I’ll just wait for the next one or the one after that. They come every 2 minutes during rush hour; sooner or later a virtually empty train is going to pull in.
It’s nearly impossible for me to get a train that’s not packed. And I sometimes run into this problem when I’m not near the door when it opens. If people start getting on early, I say “Coming out.” If someone still doesn’t get it, I’ll say it louder and right in their face, with the implication of “That means you.”
's what I came to say. But it isn’t ‘of late’. When I worked in this same building 23 years ago, I used to have constant issues with this group of young women who worked 2 floors above me. Elevator goes down to the lobby, doors open and they charge full steam into the elevator, regardless of how many people are on it. On more than one occasion they charged into a packed car, pissing everyone off as we had to shuffle around them to get off. And nothing ever said to them ever made a dent in the behavior.
People are stupid insensitive clueless selfish assholes.
The train station I use has an announcement right before the train arrives TELLING people to back off and let people off the train first. It gets ignored, I guess because by the time the train gets to my station, it’s usually standing room only.
I’m a little bitter these days though. This particular train ride is about 30 minutes with only one stop. I am 7 1/2 months pregnant so standing for 30 minutes is becoming problematic–not impossible, just uncomfortable. I get a seat maybe once a week, even when standing literally a foot away from someone sitting there engrossed in their iPad or phone. Seriously, if you see someone who would obviously appreciate your seat, just stand up and insist they take it.
My commute is between Millbrae and downtown San Francisco on Caltrain. The Millbrae station is the main transfer point between Caltrain and the BART system. In the morning, the northbound train stops and disgorges a large number of passengers headed to BART to get to various parts of the city, and the few of us getting on wait politely and avoid getting in the way. In the evening, the roles are reversed but the behavior is completely different: the horde of people waiting swarm the train doors before they even open and charge on the minute they do. Every day, without fail. I’ve had people actually push me back onto the train rather than moving aside to let me get off.
But let me add the corollary to that: The fucktard MTA conductors who close the doors immediately after all those *on *the train have gotten off, but *before *those waiting on the platform can get on! So you get people doing what they should, and standing aside while the train empties, and then when they move to get on the doors close! Which leads to everyone in the future rushing to get on before anyone else can get out.
And then the conductors bitch about people holding the doors open. :rolleyes:
The corollary to this is the fucktard who rushes onto the train, then comes to a dead stop right in the entrance, as if shocked to find him- or herself on a train.
ETA: KSO, that sucks! I faced similarly uncaring fellow commuters last winter, when I was on crutches. It was like people didn’t even see me.
My solution is to be a large man, square my shoulders, and go like a running back trying to break through the defensive line in football. If someone wants to make an issue of it, then they’ll miss the train and I’ll ignore them anyway.
This species of fucktard does this getting on a train, getting off of a train, and upon reaching the end of an escalator.
I so rarely get a seat going into work, and leave late enough that seats are often plentiful, that this isn’t an issue. BUT (and I am speaking only for me) once I am sitting (especially true homeward bound as I am at the start of the line), I really don’t pay any attention to any individual. It is all just one mass of humanity, and I really am more interested in my reading. If you might have had to stand while I was sitting, I really didn’t notice you. Heavy sighing, tapping your feet, staring at me, or other passive aggressive behavior? I really didn’t separate that from any other annoying behavior.
What drives me crazy are the people who feel the need to line up right in front of the train doors when it arrives in the station. How can you not figure out that it is better to align youself on either side of the door so that when they open you are not standing directly in the paty of people who want to exit?
This is similar to another pet peeve of mine; people who stand on the platform for boarding when it’s not their train arriving. Had to yell at someone last week who insisted on standing 3 feet in front of the door while 50 people tried to move around him to get onto the train.
If your train isn’t boarding, get the fuck out of the way.
People waiting for elevators are frequently idiots. As soon as the doors start to open, they start to move forward, without even waiting to see whether anyone is on the other side trying to get out. Then they act surprised when someone does pop out.
It’s annoying. If I’m trying to get off of a train/elevator, D_Odds’ approach is the most attractive: go forward like no one is there, and if someone is standing in your path and gets brushed back, so be it.
If I’m trying to get on a train/elevator, all I can do is be a role model for the other people on the platform: stand well off to the side and watch the door intently, leaving space for exiting passengers.
I’ve done that, but a friendlier approach works a lot better. A gentle touch on everyone’s shoulders with a friendly “Excuse me.” “Pardon me.” “Nice shoes!” “You look good, did you lose weight?” All while unapologetically moving where I need to. I get what I want, and it turns a few morning grumps into nice people.
It’s also a great way to move through packed nightclubs.
About every two months we get someone new at our bus stop who insists on standing in the exact spot every goddamned bus stops at to let people on. Then constantly having people say ‘excuse me’, give them the evil eye or just plain shove them out of the way. The worst are the morons who insist on walking in a little circle, usually in directions they’re not looking, every time a bus door opens in front of them. Stupid fuckers.
I’ve never seen any of them do that shit more than two days before figuring out “oh, that’s why everyone else is standing back 10-15 feet”.
Squaring your shoulders and bowling forward is a decidedly inappropriate way to navigate through a crowded nightclub, where no one should have an expectation of a particularly clear path; instead, gentle requests for passage make sense there. That approach will get you out of a train/elevator too, but in that circumstance the nitwits don’t learn to stand aside if you act like you’re invading their space.
