Common Sense Non-Existent on Rush Hour Subway Train
April 24, 2008 – 10:35 amThe Place: Manhattan-bound Q train
The Time: 8:30am
The Situation: The train is packed with people. Every seat is taken and the aisles and doorways are crammed with standees. When arriving at a station, two adjacent seats are vacated. Many people remain standing, but you and several others lunge towards the empty seats. You are closest and decide to sit down first.
Which seat should you sit in?
If your answer was “the seat by the window,” you’d be correct.
If your answer was “the outside seat, blocking all access to the window seat for the elderly passengers boarding the train,” you’d be an asshole, just like the three people who did this on my commute this morning.
You’re on a rush-hour subway train, assholes. If you don’t like sitting next to people, take a cab to work.
10 Responses
that’s when you should crawl over them and fart in the process.
By brooke on Apr 24, 2008
I can’t fit in those sideseats. Even with good posture, my legs don’t fit.
By Todd on Apr 24, 2008
Or, you sit on the end seat because your legs won’t fit in the small space between your seat, and the seat in front of you. So you sit on the end, and gladly will get up and let someone else in the window seat, if they just asked or said “excuse me”.
Masshole.
By Jimmy on Apr 24, 2008
Jimmy: Yes, everyone who sits in those seats is a courteous little angel. That’s exactly how it happened! How did you know?
By the way, I’m not from Massachusetts, and the hat in that picture isn’t a Red Sox hat. Get a clue.
By Chris on Apr 24, 2008
Anyone who is a sox fan is a masshole by default, its common knowledge.
By Jimmy on Apr 24, 2008
It’s called courtesy dipwits… Use some, you may like it. I can agree with the sentiment here.
By Monkey Butter on Apr 24, 2008
Jimmy: Just like all Yankees fans are Meatheads?
By Chris on Apr 24, 2008
Like Todd, I have trouble fitting my legs in. So I take the outside seat, but turn 90 degrees so that my legs are in the aisle of the train, not blocking access to the seat next to me. That way, I’m not cramped and someone else can reach the window seat.
By brookLyn gaL on Apr 24, 2008
i’m 6-3. no way in hell i’m sitting in that cramped seat. man, there’s like 8 inches of leg room there. you are clearly going batshit crazy with the things you’re complaining about this week.
fyi, it remains NJ TRANSIV.
By lozo on Apr 24, 2008
brooklyn gal, i am with you. that is what i do, sit in the outside seat but the “incorrect” way. opens up the seat and gives me more leg room, especially when the person on the end of the three row seat in front of you may be all sprawled out.
By Val on Apr 25, 2008