notes from my commute

[fraterrisus]

- I understand that I have a serious peeve about entitlement, but there's one way that it affects me on a nearly-daily basis: The doors on the subway train are wide enough for two people to exit at the same time. (Usually.) If the people on the platform that are waiting to get on - when they bother to wait, which is a different peeve - but they

Comments

[darxus]

> It's the engineer in me that sees a way to optimize everyday life that is most
> pissed off about this, I know. *sigh*

I've had a lot of difficulty with that in life. The T depressed the crap out of me.

[minkrose]

It doesn't help if you are getting off the train, but I find that if I deliberately stand out of the way of the door, usually others will follow my example. I tend to stand perpendicular to the T, in a clear "I am waiting" pose, NOT directly facing the doors. It's effective about half the time.

Of course, lots of folks just can't handle thinking ahead. I try to use it as a personal moment to be more patient (this... doesn't always work).

[jbsegal]

I totally understand the interest:
http://jbsegal.livejournal.com/263596.html
(Consideration, and better scheduling!)(Ok, not in the T's case, but still.)

[allicat42]

for the record, I used to whine as a college student about the T and the bus lines. The biggest beef I usually had, however was it didn't run past like 2am or something especially on weekends.

Now I live in ATL. OMG the T is soooooooo much better than MARTA.