Ok, I arrived at my apartment this afternoon, and immediately came looking for this thread. Why?
I leave work-it’s a Friday afternoon, so we’re all trying to get out pretty quickly. Rush hour is starting, though since the train takes me almost door to door, I don’t stress about it too much.
I start down the Peachtree Center escalator, moving at my usual pace. About a quarter of the way down, I glance ahead, and see three kids(ok, teenagers) sitting on the stairs, eating. 2 on one step, 1 on another.
Having no mercy for people who are in everyone’s way, I proceed down the stairs and loudly say: "coming through, excuse me!"
They move their feet slightly, giving me about 2 inches of space to step into, and it requires me to pass my foot above their food(hear the tiny violins playing?). I make my way through, my briefcase accidently bumps one of them on the head(not hard, and it really wasn’t intentional…but I couldn’t have planned it better). After I pass them, I hear one of them say “how rude” and I look back to say a couple of choice words, then see 3 more people coming up to do the same thing.
There were 2 ladies further down standing 2 abreast. As I approached them, one moved to the left. I rolled my eyes slightly, and mumbled “excuse me”, because, well, I was raised in the South, and some habits are hard to break.
I just simply cannot believe these kids had the audacity to block the entire escalator that way at the start of rush hour. Hooligans.