Common Sense Non-Existent on Rush Hour Subway Train
The 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.
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April 24th, 2008 at 11:51 am
brooke says:that’s when you should crawl over them and fart in the process.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Todd says:I can’t fit in those sideseats. Even with good posture, my legs don’t fit.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Jimmy says: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.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Chris says: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.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Jimmy says:Anyone who is a sox fan is a masshole by default, its common knowledge.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Monkey Butter says:It’s called courtesy dipwits… Use some, you may like it. I can agree with the sentiment here.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Chris says:Jimmy: Just like all Yankees fans are Meatheads?
April 24th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
brookLyn gaL says: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.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
lozo says: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.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Val says: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.