This one is for all the bus princesses (males and female) who drop down in the aisle seat on the bus, put their bag on the window seat and then give me the ‘what’s your problem’ look. My problem is, asshole, that you paid for one seat and you get one seat. Don’t fucking give me attitude when I tell you to move over please, I’m not standing up so you can have your ‘personal space’. I don’t want the stinking masses of humanity pressed up against me either, but I fucking deal with it. You want two seats, get a car, otherwise FUCK OFF AND MOVE OVER!
—I Will Sit on Your Head
This article appears in Oct 1-7, 2009.
Nasty glares ain’t laser beams so screw this Seat Monarch and her sense of entitlement. I’m surprised she didn’t snort herself to death.
I completely agree with this bitch and add to it two other things that annoy me:
People that:
1) don’t wait until passengers get off the bus before they got on causing a massive clusterfuck
2) get on the bus and proceed to plant themselves at the entrance, effectively blocking it off despite there being tons of standing room and even empty seats towards the back and middle of the bus. This happens to me every morning on the 35.
I agree with this bitch — to a point. People who use the extra seat for their one bag, or one purse, etc — are jerks.
That being said, I have been in the position many times where I had to take the bus under less than optimal circumstances i.e. with a large, string instrument that takes up as much room as a person. It’s bad enough having no choice but an hour long bus ride to get you home, but then when someone attempts to squeeze into a seat that is already occupied by a very large, very fragile instrument, it really, really sucks. I know it’s not “normal circumstance” but just thought I’d throw my bitch in there too.
My personal faves are the asshats who you move your shit onto your lap and slide over for only to have them bitch or roll their eyes when you have to get OFF the bus, and it takes you more than 2 seconds because of all your stuff.
Usually they are the tree-hugging granola-eating dickwads who post shit on the Coast about how people shouldn’t drive…
tresorla: If you’re getting on the bus with a “large string instrument” then you should be either A) paying for 2 fares as your instrument is taking up another seat or B) sitting in one of the sideways facing seats so that you can hold the instrument in front of you so you’re not taking up extra space. The people “attempting to squeeze into a seat that is already occupied by a very large, very fragile instrument” have paid for their seat. Your instrument did not.
just give a good fart in their face, that ought to do it. bet you get a lot of seats then.
TTFN – you totally missed the point like always. A person gets a seat before a purse/bag/briefcase does. That isn’t entitlement, it’s common sense. Entitlement is the asshole taking up more than one seat.
Don’t argue against something just for the sake of arguing, it makes you look stupid.
elocin277 I think you misread TTFN’s post – she’s saying that the bitch with the bag has the (misplaced) sense of entitlement, not the OB.
At least, that’s how I read it.
I don’t think I agree with this “I pay for a seat” argument. You pay to get a bus ride. There is no guarantee or promise of a seat. On some routes at peak times there are no seats to be had…should you then be allowed to ride free? It’s public transit and sometimes the public uses it to carry big things like groceries and stringed instruments.
That said, it’s rude to not just hold your backpack in your lap when others need a seat.
Miles: There may not be a guarantee or promise of a seat if there are other bodies in said seats…but carry on luggage does not get a seat before a living breathing (and paying) person. Pretty simple if you ask me, and Life Sucks beat me to my weapon of choice in these situations…fart, right in their face as they sit there, then look them right in the face so they have absolutely no doubt that it was purposely done.
I don’t disagree with you DER? People before things. I just don’t think you can say someone should pay for 2 seats if they take up 2 seats with their fat ass or their stuff. It’s not an airplane. However, sometimes the seat is the better place for an oversized item if the other option is the aisle.
I agree with this bitch as well. Myself, if the bus is relatively empty I will slide over to the window seat and keep my bag next to me on the aisle seat – that way if the bus starts to fill up and there aren’t very many seats left I will move my bag on to my lap to free up another seat, no problem. I don’t think this type of common courtesy is very common though.
Just sit! That person will move their bag.
Jennier I think you may be right, and that would make me an asshole.
I think you were right the first time, Elocin.
I totally agree with this bitch, and “princess” is the right word. Public transit is not your private automobile where you can spread out all your shit.
expatriot, very practical. Passengers know that they will have to move their bag once the bus fills.
The tendency to imagine deliberate slights in akin to road rage. It has become apparent from all these bitches that we now have Bus Rage, Biker Rage, Tax Rage, and on and on–just plain rage seems to lurk constantly beneath the surface of the general population waiting for any excuse to be released. What the hell is going on? What ever happen to giving someone the benefit of doubt? Assuming that there is no actual intention? Jeez! I blame it on caffeine. Stop drinking Red Bull!
I dunno, the OP specifically said the sitter was rude to them when they were asked to move in.
Jesus H. Christ. Don’t get me going on these white limo characters.
Hey! Grizzley Adams on the 58 at Penhorn 6:40am. I am going el grande loco on your fanny perpendicular soon. Common sence dictates to move the fuck over when it gets crowded. People shouldn’t have to ask. It’s common courtesy.
Reason #2 why i drive my own car
Well said HKM. I can’t imagine living like these people that assume everyone is out to get them everywhere they go. Sometimes people just had a long day and are spacing out on the bus! They may genuinely not see you until you rudely gesture at them to move their stuff. Their response to a rude gesture will probably be a rude gesture (no way!!) thus begins the rude gesture loop.
Imagine if you had kindly asked them to move, maybe even with a smile? You might be surprised how much nicer people are when you are nice to them. I know, I know, this is the bitch board, some people are just jerks, yadda yadda, halifax sucks, bla bla not worth my time, whatever. . . .
Why is it OK for someone to space out after a long day of work, but not ok for someone else to want to be able to access a seat they’ve just paid for without having to ask someone to move, after a long day of work? I love spacing out on the bus, but I make sure I don’t need to pay attention any more before doing so.
first of all….just ask….2ndly if I want to give you the inside seat…..that’s what you get….and….you suck it…..more
Haha mole rat your comment is so classic “LTWWB” I love it.
“Why the hell should I be polite to someone if I don’t want to be? It is my RIGHT to be a jerk whenever I want to be. Free speech! “
Never Wrong: You dont pay for a seat thats why when there are no seas left people can still get on, you pay 2.25 for the ride. not any accomadation. After reading tons of your comments, you seem to be a under informed asshole who just trolls everyone.