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Gee, I might just need to start a perpetual thread for this weirdness.
I've noticed a tendency for people to board the train and then simply stand dumbly in front of the doors. Even if the car is more than half empty. I had to bodycheck a few twits with my bag today to get off at my stop. They saw me get up and move toward the front of the train...what do they do? Move in the precise position to block the doors. Fighting my way out during rush hour I can understand, but this...grrr.
Possibly related to the above, you get the people who take their sweet time boarding/unboarding (and also standing dumbly right in the door) which results in someone almost getting flattened by the closing doors. This subspecies is part of the reason why I will not try to jump on a train if I did not see it pull in.
Another family (locals wouldn't be this dumb...or would they?) tried to wrangle a full-size baby carriage onto the train during morning rush hour when it was packed to begin with. Granted, this was one of the newer cars where the center portion is approximately six feet wide, but the carriage was probably a hair less than that lengthwise. They wound up blocking not only the doors on both sides of the car at the same time, but also completely blocking the handicapped spots, meaning that if someone with a walker or wheelchair needed to board, they could not. Plus everyone standing anywhere near them got squished into the doors (which is Bad). I almost got my hand smashed in one of the door joints. Each time someone needed to disembark, they had to wait for the twits to maneuver the carriage completely out of the train, then the driver had to wait for them to get the thing back on (rinse and repeat until I finally managed to escape...I was waiting for the driver to just leave them on the platform at some point).
I must exude some kind of "I'm not here" aura. I had some lady try to practically sit on me on the Red Line. Hi, it's not like any of the seats--a third of which are empty--are not visible from the doors. You knew I was there. Don't glare at me when I give your butt a warning tap with my bag.
At all stations except one (Kenmore), the doors always open on the right side of the train. Prior to arrival at Kenmore station, it is announced that the doors open on the left. Yet for some reason I'll see people gravitate to the right side of the train, and start yelling at the driver when the right-side doors don't open (psst, look behind you...those doors are open, however be my guest if you wish to disembark onto the third rail). I've also seen people try to follow track workers on the train who get off in the middle of the tunnel (newsflash, does that look like a platform to you?).
I've noticed a tendency for people to board the train and then simply stand dumbly in front of the doors. Even if the car is more than half empty. I had to bodycheck a few twits with my bag today to get off at my stop. They saw me get up and move toward the front of the train...what do they do? Move in the precise position to block the doors. Fighting my way out during rush hour I can understand, but this...grrr.
Possibly related to the above, you get the people who take their sweet time boarding/unboarding (and also standing dumbly right in the door) which results in someone almost getting flattened by the closing doors. This subspecies is part of the reason why I will not try to jump on a train if I did not see it pull in.
Another family (locals wouldn't be this dumb...or would they?) tried to wrangle a full-size baby carriage onto the train during morning rush hour when it was packed to begin with. Granted, this was one of the newer cars where the center portion is approximately six feet wide, but the carriage was probably a hair less than that lengthwise. They wound up blocking not only the doors on both sides of the car at the same time, but also completely blocking the handicapped spots, meaning that if someone with a walker or wheelchair needed to board, they could not. Plus everyone standing anywhere near them got squished into the doors (which is Bad). I almost got my hand smashed in one of the door joints. Each time someone needed to disembark, they had to wait for the twits to maneuver the carriage completely out of the train, then the driver had to wait for them to get the thing back on (rinse and repeat until I finally managed to escape...I was waiting for the driver to just leave them on the platform at some point).
I must exude some kind of "I'm not here" aura. I had some lady try to practically sit on me on the Red Line. Hi, it's not like any of the seats--a third of which are empty--are not visible from the doors. You knew I was there. Don't glare at me when I give your butt a warning tap with my bag.
At all stations except one (Kenmore), the doors always open on the right side of the train. Prior to arrival at Kenmore station, it is announced that the doors open on the left. Yet for some reason I'll see people gravitate to the right side of the train, and start yelling at the driver when the right-side doors don't open (psst, look behind you...those doors are open, however be my guest if you wish to disembark onto the third rail). I've also seen people try to follow track workers on the train who get off in the middle of the tunnel (newsflash, does that look like a platform to you?).
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