Why do people riding mass transit go into a robot-like oblivious state? It still perplexes me. I mean, I can get into a “subway zone”, but I am still aware of the people around me. I’m talking about people who, get off the train at rush hour and amidst a massive crowd moving around them, they will stop dead in their tracks to finish reading a page of their book. You can’t get around them – sometimes you bump into them and they just don’t seem to notice or care. What is that? Can they not read when then get home?
Another one of my favorites is the greedy newspaper man that I always seem to come across on every crowded rush hour train. Ahh…greedy newspaper man. Why is it that you have to sit with your legs spread so far apart that the people around you are crouching just to sit next to you? Why do you insist on reading The New York Times and opening it up to full capacity even when it is sticking in other people’s faces and on their heads? Do you think you are in your living room? I honestly have to chew those words back every time I see you. I imagine that if I asked greedy newspaper man if he thought he was in his living room, that he would just look up at me and be like…where the hell did she come from?
Next on my hit list: leaning on the pole peeps. Again, always on a very crowded train – these people will just lean their entire body up against a pole and ignore the 30 other people gathered around it trying to get an inch to hold on to. WTF?!?!?!?!? I usually deal with these people in the same manner every time…simply grab the pole and literally push their back to get in there. Usually others will follow suit and the person will turn around bewildered that there are other people around them and they will usually move over and grab the pole themselves.
I could go on and on, but I’ll save that for another day and another post.
