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So I'm on the T (Boston's subway system) on my way home from work and have already encountered some of my biggest pet peeves.
- People listening to their iPods so loud that I can hear every lyric of every song from 10 feet away.
- Rude people who refuse to give up their seats for the elderly, pregnant women, or small children. Don't act like you don't see them, I know you do!
- People on cell phones talking really loudly about personal issues.. No I don't care about your 3 year old's diarrhea.
Okay those are mine. Chime in, my fellow public transportation riding bees! Plus I am so excited I can finally post this on my iPhone so I have something to do on my commute.
Oh and let's throw in our weirdest experiences for kicks.. Mine is when the woman next to me started eating an ear of corn at 7 am and then left the cob on the floor. Such entertainment on the way to work!
They are starting to add underground cell service in NYC and I DREAD it.
My biggest pet peeve is people who rush onto the subway car before letting everyone off.
What else... people who stand to the left of the escalator. people who leave their bags on the seat next to them. Really? are your bags tired?
I hate when people think they are on stage at the Hip Hop Awards - when they rap and dance to the song on their iPod. Seriously, no one wants to watch you crank that soulja boy, or whatever the new ridiculous dance is.
And I also hate it when people lean over my shoulder and read what I'm doing on my phone. I was texting a friend one day, and this lady was breaking her neck over my shoulder to read my phone. I texted "This lady keeps putting her nasty breath in my face because she's trying to be nosey - yes ma'am, I'm talking to you." She grunted, but at least she stopped!
i'm not sure what the trains are like elsewhere, but we have little buttons to open the doors. when the button is BRIGHT GREEN you can open it, when it's not BRIGHT GREEN you can't. My pet peeve is people who press the non-green buttons 80 times hoping the doors will open. They won't. Wait for the next train.
@LGenz: yup, I agree with those too! I don't think Boston has underground service yet but I'm on one of the outbound lines that is actually above ground the whole way.
@misssydneyj: LOL, wow!
This thread makes me so glad I don't take the train everyday anymore.
@misssydneyj: hahaha wow I haven't had that happen to me yet luckily (at least I don't think!)
@.twist.: some people will never learn.. though I feel like a dog or monkey could probably be trained to figure that out.
@Nicoley1985: haha I know! Green-open; no green-NO OPEN. It's like the smallest possible thing to piss me off but it does!!!
I'll add another one. I realize they get crowded, and I don't usually complain. However, I am really short, and my complain comes when you think you should stand SO close to me with your hand holding the bar above your head that my FACE is in your armpit. GROSS. Seriously, the room your trying to save between my face and your pits isn't going to help anyone else get on !
Live outside of Manhattan and usually work till late. So I hate when I end up on the "drunk tank" home. So loud, so obnoxious. And all I want to do is relax after a long day of work.
It's crazy, I tell you. If you want something to read, bring a book! Lol
I also hear one passanger once complaint o a conductor about how he was "paying so much" and there were "no seats" and how "this doesn't happen in Europe". First off, there was a seat next to me open. And basically 10 open seats in my car alone. So basically this guy was complaining about having to sit next to someone. Hire a limo if you can't stand other people, don't take public transporation.
The train I try to catch to get home after work consistently leaves two minutes early. I can get to the station by 5:11, but no matter how fast I run, I can't make it by 5:09. It leaves early about a third of the time. It annoys me every single time that I miss it.
My weirdest experience was actually on a bullet train in Japan. For some reason, EVERYONE wanted to be on that train that day, and it was standing room only. After about thirty minutes, however, a guy coming out of the bathroom told me there was a spare seat next to him and his friend, and I should join them. I did, and I enjoyed talking to them for a while. The guy who had invited me was the coach of a minor league baseball team, and his friend was one of his players. The player obviously liked me, but he was very shy, and he kept blushing. The coach wasn't helping because he kept saying things like, "Oh, he's so shy. Just look at him blushing! You must forgive him; he's just entranced by your beauty. He's a nice guy, though! You should give him your number." I eventually did because he was cute, and I enjoyed our conversation. After about two hours of chatting, the three of us started just poking each other. The baseball player looked like he was about to poke me, paused for a moment, and then just grabbed my boob. When I jerked away, he turned even redder than he had been before, apologized, and tried to sink into the chair as his coach went on about how his friend was so sorry, and it was just because neither of them had ever seen tits even have as large as mine before.
...Unfortunately, that was only one of the seventeen times that I was groped by almost complete strangers that weekend.
Forget people playing their iPods loud on trains - here in LA they sometimes don't use headphones at all!! Next time someone does that I swear I'm getting the sherriff!!
Also - drinking alcohol on the train, peeing on the seat, getting groped, people going into the train before everyone is out...
@LetThereBeLite: Ah, the drunk crowd. The worst for me is being on the T before or after a Sox game... then you get the *really* drunk (and really crammed in) crowd.
@GreenEyedMoon: OMG that is so inappropriate, yet kinda made me giggle! I've had a few inadvertent boob bumpings (maybe because it was so crowded, so I'll cut them a break), but no flat out groping!
@GreenEyedMoon: OMG!!!!! That is a crazy story!!! Just randm boob grab! I take it the two of you never went on a first date!?
@Nicoley1985: The sad thing was, he obviously felt SO BAD about it, and to be fair, groping is just something that kind of happens there, and people would get confused about why I was upset when it happened, so part of it was just kind of cultural. I did actually text him a few times over the next few weeks.
@cubicalmouse: Ohh my, maybe I shouldn't be complaining about the public transportation here in Boston! Sounds gross (the peeing part). Actually though... I did see this drunk guy puke all over his friend and some random girls once. A group of teens also lit up a joint when I got on the T after a free Mac Miller concert downtown. (I seriously didn't even know who Mac Miller was, but apparently preppy rich teenagers love his rap.. and then they njoy acting like a**es on their way home to the suburbs).
@GreenEyedMoon: Ok. I can get a cultural difference. Although I'd probably have been a little shocked too!!! haha.
@.twist.: Groping on the train is actually a huge problem over there. Train gropers are extremely common in the big cities, which is why they've actually had to create women only train cars. The baseball player wasn't your normal creepy groper, though. He seemed like a genuinely nice guy who made a mistake. I'm not excusing his behavior, but it was something I could forgive.
The groping happened all the time, though. I had one preschool student I nicknamed the Groping Ninja because one minute, he wouldn't be there, and the next, his hand would be attached to my boob. Seriously. Every single day.
@GreenEyedMoon: I guess every train system has their issues. I have only heard amazing things about the trains in Japan, so the groping thing must be their issue! (Although, I've never been there so there could be more I don't know about).
If our trains could run each day without breaking down somewhere, that would be amazing.
Ps. Groping Ninja! AMAZING. LOL.
@GreenEyedMoon: What a bizarre story! I'm also wondering how you guys just randomly started poking each other...trying to imagine scenarios in which this would happen, lol.
@.twist.: Agreed. Every time my train leaves too early, I mutter to myself about how I would take the groping if I could just have my Japanese trains and their amazing ability to stick to schedules again.
@mckernae: Two hours of chatting on a looooooooooooooong train ride, a couple of beers (drinking on the trains is totally okay there), and sleep deprivation were all factors. It started out with the two guys going after each other, and I was laughing at them, so then they started poking me.
@GreenEyedMoon: "Groping ninja," LOL. Also laughing at the "normal creepy groper" description. Great story for a dreary work afternoon :).
ETA: Ah yes, beer on the trains. That explains it, haha. I actually went to Japan for my honeymoon in September and while my DH & I had no experiences with groping (he must've warded off some of the errant gropers), we fell in LOVE with the train system there. Would gladly trade a few uncomfortable gropes for the efficiency of those trains. Does that make me a public transprostitute?
@mckernae: Probably, but if you are, then so am I. Public transprostitutes unite!
Argh it drives me mad when the train is packed and people get in the door and just..stop. Move inside the damn train!! There's usually a heap of standing space if people would just move inside!!! Mmmrrraaagghh!
All those things, as well as creeps who WILL NOT STOP TALKING TO ME! And ask for my schedule and things like that. I try to fiddle with my knife/pepper spray as much as possible.
Oh and also, every morning I have to change trains at a sort of mid size suburban interchange; the line that I change on to has a train come every few minutes in peak and yet without fail, as I walk across the concourse to change platforms, people RUN to make the other trains, bags flying, arms flailing... Like...really, will it kill you to wait 2 minutes for the next one??
Don't even get me started on people with enormous prams and strollers in peak hour. I understand that babies have to travel too, but this morning a man got on with a 5 yr old in a massive pram and he just would not get out of the way when people needed to get off the train.
I guess I am an angry commuter....
@Nicoley1985: ughhh the T..people with baby carriages trying to run on as I'm trying to get off/out of their way and they're running over my feet. Also I feel like I got stuck at Back Bay every single day due to a "disabled train"
The weirdest was on the Red line coming home from Harvard when the lady next to me reached into her purse and started petting a snake - WTF?!?! There was a couple who rode the green line a lot who had ferrets they would bring on but at least those are cute
@Leahhh: Oh weird.. usually I just get the creeps who stare at me and follow me around. If they started asking for my schedule, I would jump right off the train!
@so_said_ellie: LOL I am an angry commuter too. I think Boston was considering banning strollers on the subway but there was a lot of backlash. There is a little area for wheelchairs and strollers right when you step onto the train, but people are usually crammed in there so it's pretty pointless. I also hate people with gigantic backpacks who refuse to take them off and put them on the floor somewhere. Yesterday I was practically doing a backbend because this tall guy's backpack was shoved in my face.
@lawyer2bee: I wasn't even gonna get started on the issues with the T itself.. the green line cars are SO old and slow and break down all the time. If I hear about "signal problems" one more time, I'm going to flip! And OMG a snake?!?! I would have freaked out. Recently I read something in the paper about a woman losing her boa constrictor on the train. Seriously, lady?! I would like seeing ferrets maybe.. one thing I do enjoy is seeing really cute babies and puppies sometimes.
People who mouth off at the driver and waste everyone's time because they got caught trying not to pay the fare.
People who stand plastered against the doors when they're not getting off for 20 more stops.
People who can't read simple instructions and stand in front of the door at their stop like dead weight until someone reaches forward and opens the door for them.
People who don't press the button/pull the cord, and then yell "BACK DOOR" angrily at the driver when he/she stops to pick someone up as if he/she knew they wanted off.
People who are not mindful of where their backpack/purse/heavy tote bag with 5 giant hardcover textbooks in it is swinging, which is usually directly at my head.
On the T, my pet peeve was people who didn't move into the car when they got on. You can't always be at the front! Step into the darn car!
BTW: I lived on the green (B, then D, then C), but I LOVED the red line stop with the chimes. I think it was Kendall? I was like a little kid at that stop. :)
Down here, the transit system is smaller and my big pet peeve is one specific driver. He drives a trolley (we have buses and a few trolleys) and he either has the gas pedal on the floor or is slamming on the brakes. He will drive away from someone who is 5 feet away from the door, running. I once walked up to the trolley stopped at a red light and he wouldn't open the door.
After a few years of bracing myself on the trolley, I started to think about how those trolley cars probably have to be serviced more often because he drives like that. It tickes me off!
@Nicoley1985: hahah, the T is the worst - especially the Green line. But I gotta take it every day. My biggest pet peeve is when people who are sitting down feel the need to get out of their seat and head for the door while the T is still moving. And meanwhile, I'm standing and holding on for dear life because the ride is so bumpy, but still, I have to let go of the pole and find my balance just so this person can get to the door first. GRRRRRRR! I HATE THIS!
@misssydneyj:haha...this happens all the time - people rapping all loud, thinking they are awesome.
@luli29: The one nice thing about the drivers down here is that they won't let anyone sing or play music out loud.
Now if we could only take care of the loud phone talkers!
Dude I just wrote a ranty blog post about this. After visiting a city and riding the public transports for just 2 days, I was so glad to be back to the midwestern sprawl and my private, quiet car!
I cannot believe no one has written about Metro in DC. Service is notoriously horrible, the escalators and elevators never work, they refuse to run longer cars during rush hour and they jack the prices up every few months. You'll occasionally see an 8 car train but it's very rare and trains get over crowded. I also can't stand when some one tries to squeeze into the seat next to me and ends up sitting on my lap. It happens all the time, especially when there are open seats all over the car. Why force both of us to be uncomfortable when we could both be comfortable if you were in another seat with more room.
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