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Dear Metro Transit riders: Stop being dicks. Unless the bus is full, there are very few legitimate reasons to stand at the very front of the bus. I am tired of having to push past you. Take a few seconds to shuffle your feet a little a move to the back of the damn bus. —Hipp5
This article appears in Mar 11-17, 2010.
17 Comments
no tag…. nice.
good job there.
can’t tell it’s Friday at all…
I do notice this all the time… why are people so scared of the back of the bus?
I’d WANT to be near that side door to get out quicker and get a nice blast of fresh air once in a while…
less B O the better
hipps, it’s called to fucking dumb to walk and talk, at the same time. this is almost as bad as these texting twits, every fucking where they go, the fingers are dancing on the keypads. but today, was a new one on me, people whipping out laptops in a fucking doctors office. i mean come on now. fb that fucking important in your lives, jesus christ.
i like the cats sucks i want everyone, except me of course, to use cats and or dogs in their avatars…ttfn exempted
hmm I suppose I can switch back for a while… I just may have to make one for Monday.
got some cute snaps of my vonSmooshWaffle trying to sleep
i am trying to keep an air of levity in les famille…never go against the family(with cotton in mouth)
I wonder if I could get a government grant to study the behavioural science of transit users.
Life sucks, how does people on their own personal laptops at a doctor’s office effect you directly? Are they standing there in a narrow hallway holding the laptop with one hand and you can’t get by?
I don’t understand why when the bus is full, the people standing stop moving back once they reach the steps/back door. And then the bus driver has to yell move back. If the front of the bus is completely full, where are the new passengers supposed to go unless you move to the very back? There are hand rails back there too ya know. Of course, Metro Transit should be sending the big buses (cough the 52 from 4-6pm cough) but that’s another bitch…
Move to the back of the bus dammit
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Yes, move to the back of the bus dumbasses! I thought it was limited to low floors, but I had an old accordion Thursday and people stuffed themselves into the front half of that bus. It was not a good day.
I caught the outbound 58 at 11:55am today and that fucking male “bus bunny” from Gottingen St. hung out with the female driver for an entire round trip (I got off past Penhorn and he was still there on the way back), blocking the aisle by the wheelwells up from. Nevermind the obvious ooogling of females as they boarded the bus…
PG: I’m the original cat-avatar-poster!
What bugs me is, there are seats and people won’t sit down, they just block the seats so it looks like there are no seats, or people can’t get TO the seats because people are standing up, thus creating less room on the bus for people to stand.
Just sit the fuck DOWN already.
the fucking worst is people blocking the doors of sky/subway trains and than your almost not getting out for your stop and THEY LOOK AT YOU LIKE YOU JUST ASKED THEM FOR A BJ OR THEIR KIDNEY omfg i could bitch slap them so easily!
PK, you are absolutely right. I’m sure some of these people do it with the intent of allowing other people to sit down, but if too many of them do it, then like you said, it looks like there are no seats available. Sometimes, I just feel like standing up and telling these asshats to move their lazy entitles asses
I’ve noticed in most cases when people won’t sit in that one seat left, it’s usually a tight squeeze. And while yeah it sucks to be uncomfortable, that’s the life of a bus rider.
they’re scared they might actually have a real conversation with a total stranger…gasp
I hate the dumb fucks that group together right in front of the back door of the bus too. There are often so many of them jammed in to the space that they can’t move the fuck out of the way. Taking the bus to and from work everyday makes me see red.
When I get on the bus and there’s a bunch of people standing in the way so that I can’t get past them I just say “excuse me” and they always move aside. They’re not being dicks on purpose, they’re most-likely nice people… if inattentive and mildly stupid.