James Ford
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 02:14 PM UTC
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What's the deal with people stretched out taking two seats on a crowded Metro train when they only paid for one? Today I saw a girl with her handbag to her side and one asscheek on one seat and the other asscheek on the other seat. And two guys with their legs streched out over the whole seat like they were home on their mama's couch watching football. Sometimes I even see white people pulling this shit, though that wasn't the case today.
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 02:22 PM UTC
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if you just act like you are sitting on them to get the seat, being all rude about it and acting like you don't give a fuck about them . . . they will move.
Relaxer
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 03:30 PM UTC
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Walkonby, when is the last time you actually were on a DC metro?
James Ford
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 03:52 PM UTC
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One time I did politelyl ask a 250 pound teenage girl (think of the girl in Precious behaving like her mom and you get the idea) if she'd move her leg so I could sit down. When she refused, I tried to move her leg over, and she prompty punched me in the back of the head, knocking my glasses across the train car.
This is one of the reasons why I usually stick to riding the VRE commuter train to work instead of taking Metro.
(think the movie Precious)
walkonby wrote:
if you just act like you are sitting on them to get the seat, being all rude about it and acting like you don't give a fuck about them . . . they will move.
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 03:58 PM UTC
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You should not touch anyone, even if you do not agree with what they are doing. While i dont agree with what the girl was doing, I definitely do not agree with you touching her. Her punching your head was an appropriate response.
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 03:59 PM UTC
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When I worked in Downtown DC and lived in columbia, md i tried the metro a bunch of times but it was the worst experience ever. I like how when had to switch trains people would step on my shoes they were so disrespectful of other people. Or how they would crowd into traiins that were already full and refuse to leave when the doors didn't shut. And then the driver would make everyone get off.
Or how when riding up on the escalators people would walk past you hitting their laptop bags into you. I got to the point where I would just stand in the middle of the escalator and not let them by. I told them to take the steps iif they wanted to walk.
I eventually just started taking the bus in. It went right from columbia to my job with only 5 stops or so. It might have been a little longer than driving to the metro than changiing trains. But it was sure a lot more relaxing. Finally I convinced them to let me come in at 10 and just drove in. Best way by far and the quickest. Left columbia at 9:15 and was at my garage in DC at 10.
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 04:02 PM UTC
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DC metro blows…. to be avoided..not only does the service bring on the suck but the people who work in the system act like you're working for them…
one of the positives of moving to Arlington from DC has been buying a car and not riding the metro…
having said that, and I understand the frustration, obviously do not confront people over seats.. who cares??? Just fuckin' stand.. its not that hard.. don't let it get to you.. if its getting to you that much you're the one with the problem and its bigger than not having a seat for your lazy ass.
James Ford
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 04:05 PM UTC
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In retrospect I do agree that attempting to move her leg was not a good move, however punching somebody in the head is rarely a proper response to ANYTHING in life, particularly as something as non-threatening as someone attempting to move your leg (from a place it shouldn't be).
killsaly wrote:
You should not touch anyone, even if you do not agree with what they are doing. While i dont agree with what the girl was doing, I definitely do not agree with you touching her. Her punching your head was an appropriate response.
chaz
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 04:17 PM UTC
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When somebody's taking extra seats I always just look at them and then the seat like i'm gonna sit there and they always accomodate. Not always happily, but this always works when I do it.
I love metro, standing or sitting. Big headphones come between me and all the rude people.
sweetcell
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 04:36 PM UTC
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i've recently switched to a local job in DC and ride metro every day. love it.
when i come across a douchebag/douchebaguette taking up two seats i ask them politely if i could please sit in the other seat. i haven't been turned down (or punched) once. maybe it's just a numbers game and at some point i'll come across some idiot who won't share.
edit: one morning there was a person taking up two seats on a full train and who was/appeared to be fast asleep. i went over and nudged them, hoping to wake them up, and got no reaction. other folks then informed me that they had also tried to wake him up with no success. dunno if the person was truly asleep or just pretending (i.e. ignoring us). either way i didn't care enough to do anything else about it so i stood.
killsaly wrote:
Her punching your head was an appropriate response.
no it was not.
chaz
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 06:29 PM UTC
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hutch wrote:
chaz wrote:
When somebody's taking extra seats I always just look at them and then the seat like i'm gonna sit there and they always accomodate. Not always happily, but this always works when I do it.
I love metro, standing or sitting. Big headphones come between me and all the rude people.
oh great.. so you're that guy blasting the music so that everyone can hear it..
;D
Nope they are closed over the ear studio monitors, designed specifically for no sound bleed. sorry!
James Ford
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 06:56 PM UTC
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With every five bad Metro stories comes a good one, so I'll share my good one.
One the second of three crowded Metro trains this morning, I noticed a fine young gentleman (think Carlton from Fresh Prince of Bel Air) anticipating people needing a seat, and he moved his large suitcase onto his lap. After scanning to make sure there weren't any pregnant, elderly, disabled or blind people who might need to seat, I took it and thanked him.
I'm just amazed at the different experience that is Metro vs. VRE. One time I got on a nearly empty VRE car and absentmindedly put my backpack on the seat next to me. Soon thereafter a VRE conductor approached me and insisted that I put th backpack on the ground because:
a. potential patrons might want that seat
b. I should NEVER put my backpack on a seat because it could "potentially get dirt on a seat that a patron might sit down in."
I wish THAT guy had been working on the Metro train when I had my encounter with Precious.
Another oddity is that Metro doesn't allow food on the train whereas VRE does (MARC even lets you consume your own alcohol (!), and yet there seem to be much more good spills on Metro.
James Ford
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
November 14, 2012 at 07:23 PM UTC
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I was on the Metro the other day and had my ipod at near high volume. Seated in front of me was a 50something woman (think cleaning lady in a federal building) who also had an ipod. For several minutes she proceeded to belt out the foreign language tune in such a booming fashion that I heard her singing over the Slayer song that was playing on my ipod.
