Dear people on the subway:

[QueenAdrock]

I understand you like music. However, the reason why there's a rules list posted in the train saying "No music unless attached to an earphone" as number 3 is because it's annoying to hear your music.

Now, if you want to blast your music directly into your eardrums when you're at home, by all means feel free. But when the person next to you can hear your shitty elevator music/reggae/soul mix stuff crystal-clear, you are playing your music way too loud. No one wants to hear your shit music, if they did, they'd have it playing on their own ipods. Pls turn down the volume or get better headphones.

Thanks,
Me

Feel free to air your subway pet peeves here.

[abcdefz]

Yeah -- I get that sort of thing on the bus.

But I'm learning a peaceful attitude about it. (y)

[Freebasser]

I hate eating at subway.

[Waus]

Try humming along to their music.


That always made me turn mine down.

[QueenAdrock]

Yeah -- I get that sort of thing on the bus.

But I'm learning a peaceful attitude about it. (y)


I try to. Except when I'm tired and trying to nap. The subway's always really really quiet, the only reason why it wouldn't be would be because of loud Ipods or people who know each other talking. Even cell phones are shunned.

STOP INTERRUPTING MY SLEEP! :(

[Dorothy Wood]

it's worse when people are singing...sort of like under their breath, then get a little louder at parts that require inflection. and it sucks soooo bad. I hate it, I mean, STOP SINGING, NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR HALF-VOLUME GOSPEL SONG, STOP SHOWING OFF!

except one time a girl was singing a song that I liked and she had a pretty good voice, so I didn't mind it too much.

[QueenAdrock]

hahaha! yeah! and then this one time, there was this creepy guy on the platform across from me doing a full-out dance to his music. only it was like, a choreographed dance, one you would see as like a backup dancer or something. he was doing splits and shit. everyone was giving him weird looks and he made me rofl. He just seemed completely oblivious to everyone.

[b i o n i c]

dear out-loud rapping kid on subway who watches too many music videos:

stop it. you're never going to be in the same room as a video camera. there is no camera in front of you, just as much as no one is impressed by your hillariously cliche dancing/posing as you try to rap out loud. that little p.diddy lazy shoulders dance move and glare from the side of your side-ways tipped uncreased, oversize had was wack in 1995. when you refer to kickin it in the studio, you probably mean the room you share with your brother in tiny roach infested apartment. just because it reflects light doesnt mean its bling. please do not confuse the rest of your fellow passengers' avoidance of you as fear or any indication of your hardness. we all realize that you probably lack the most basic english language skills and being forced to sit and listen to you is painful and annoying. you're pretty good at color coordinating, but someone should really show you clothes in your size, you spill over onto the other seats. you know what? please get your gangster self a car and a driver, rap all you want in your soundproof maybach, and leave the subways to the rest of us who live in reality.

thanks b

me.

[abcdefz]

sorry :(

[Dorothy Wood]

ha ha, gross.

[TurdBerglar]

i hate people that get pissed off about this shit

[beastiegirrl101]

i hate people that get pissed off about this shit

(!)

right on man, it's public tranist. The publics are strange.

[b i o n i c]

survival tools for riding the subway:

1. music/headphones to drown out unwanted sound
2. a bag to be a buffer on crowded cars, keeps crotch/stranger contact to a minimum
3. sunglasses for avoiding eye contact/ for sleeping without people knowing (and trying to steal your shit)
4. gum to help with bad smells, or some sort of scented chapstick

its days when i have all of these with me that i have the bext experiences on mass transportation

[TurdBerglar]

(!)

right on man, it's public tranist. The publics are strange.



yeah it's like going to the park and getting pissed at the children playing

[QueenAdrock]

Hey if you were trying to get your sleep on and kept getting awoken by a baby or a loud ipod, I'm pretty sure you'd get annoyed too. It sucks. Especially at 7 in the morning. (n)

[b i o n i c]

but parks are for playing

[QueenAdrock]

4. gum to help with bad smells, or some sort of scented chapstick

Yeah dude. When no one talks on the metro for like a 40 minute ride, bacteria grows and it's pretty gross once they yawn. Blech. I allllways bring gum.

[QueenAdrock]

QA, I agree with you. People shouldn't have their music in a tight space loud. Of course I also think guys should get up for ladies, and younger folks should let the older people like kerrbear have their seats.

hahahaha

Yeah, I get up for elderly people and pregnant ladies. It's common courtesy.

[Dorothy Wood]

hey fuck off, I've got packages, NUMEROUS PACKAGES!

[TurdBerglar]

the only thing i really hate is when some asshole/bitch sits on the outside seat so no one can sit next to them and refuse to get up so someone can sit in the empty seat

[QueenAdrock]

^Yeah. Some dude in a business suit did that about a month ago, and a little old lady got on board and he immediately stared at the ground and avoided eye contact so she wouldn't come over. So I offered my seat to her. I should have then gone to the guy and been like BITCH MOVE OVER and sat down.

[Dorothy Wood]

yeah, that's annoying, it's like, "come on, get the fuck over yourself, it's not going to be the end of the world if someone sits by you!"


however, if the only seat available is one that's in the middle between two occupied seats, I usually choose to stand. because I don't want to be sandwiched between other people's thighs. if it's only a two seater, you can at least lean against the wall, or hang a bit off the outside so you don't have to touch.

[Echewta]

I have the same issue. The only way i could solve it, while ridning the train, was to buy an Ipod and get the big headphones so I can have peace. Because I bought the fatty headphones, nobody has to listen to my music, such as "Shut up! Shut up when I'm talking to you" dern dern. chig chig chig dern dern.
I also take an increadable amount of satisfaction knowing that they will have serious hearing loss in just a few years. (y)

[QueenAdrock]

Hahaha...there was one lady last week who had a shopping bag on the seat, I asked her if I could sit there and she :rolleyes: and sighed and moved it to *gasp* her lap. I felt so bad making her do that. :(

[Planetary]

I hate eating at subway.
sure you do

[Dorothy Wood]

Is that the new term for junk in the trunk?

no, butt lover.

[abcdefz]

yeah it's like going to the park and getting pissed at the children playing



Like someone said earlier: that's a weak analogy, because children playing in a park is a sanctioned thing. I think what we're talking about (by and large) is when folks overstep the bounds of propriety or break the rules altogether.

-- which has always annoyed me to no end, because it seems so incredibly rude, this whole the-world-as-my-private-space thing. But it occured to me recently that I really personalize it, which is why it's so offensive to me. And the fact is, it's not that these people "aren't thinking" -- they're surely thinking about their own sphere of concerns and problems and needs and dislikes and petty annoyances -- but they're not thinking about me, and that's insufferable. I'm indignant that they're not putting my comfort a little further up the amenity chain: that they're lives aren't in orbit around the radiant sun of my own.

So now I'm learning to either say something kindly if it's truly impeding me, or just treat it as part of the ambience and let it fade that way.

So far, anyway.

*crosses fingers*

[YoungRemy]

^^^

its the sense of entitlement that bothers me as well...

one thing that always pisses me off is when it's rush hour and someone has their bag in the seat next to them...

these people are the first people I approach and ask if I can sit in (their bags) seat... then they give me an annoyed look and roll their eyes...

then I plop my ass down right next to them and mumble under my breath about common courtesy, not to mention they could be ticketed for it..

then when I get off my stop I often say something really obnoxious about just so it sinks in that this person is not entitled to keep their possesions in other peoples seats...

and when I smell the nasty fried chicken or Chinese food that stinks up the entire car, I always chime in "Whats For Dinner?"

[TurdBerglar]

listening to fucking headphones on a bus/subway is pretty much an unwritten rule. i don't understand how it's rude. doesn't bother me at all when i can hear someone's music. it's a petty thing to get annoyed about. if you don't like something then fuckoff. stop complaining and wishing/trying to make things your way.

[abcdefz]

listening to fucking headphones on a bus/subway is pretty much an unwritten rule. i don't understand how it's rude. doesn't bother me at all when i can hear someone's music. it's a petty thing to get annoyed about. if you don't like something then fuckoff. stop complaining and wishing/trying to make things your way.



...the reason why headphones are supposed to be okay but open speakers are not is because you're not supposed to subject other people to your music; that's the deal. So when headphones are cranked up loud enough that other folks can clearly make out someone's music (not just sort of "overhear" residual leakage) -- yeah, it violates the spirit of things.

[TurdBerglar]

maybe for a whiny bitch

[paul jones]

I'll be on the underground/tube in London tomorrow

it's really boring.I'm glad when i get off

[QueenAdrock]

It's a violation of Metro policy, at very least. No food, no drink, no music (with the exception of it being muted to everyone else through headphones). It says it right there. It tells them they shouldn't be doing it, but they don't care.

It's like the people who stand on the left side of the escalator. They think it's just an "unwritten" rule that they're not supposed to do that, when it's actually printed right on the escalator "STAND ON THE RIGHT."

[abcdefz]

maybe for a whiny bitch



-- just trying to help you understand, sir. Common sense, common courtesy.

[TurdBerglar]

ohhh nooooo


the escalator rule

[TurdBerglar]

-- just trying to help you understand, sir. You seem to think there's no basis for what's pretty clearly common sense.


it's nothing to complain about

[QueenAdrock]

ohhh nooooo


the escalator rule

Yeah. I've missed the goddamn train several times due to people being inconsiderate and clogging the escalator. Just like I haven't been able to nap on the train in peace because of people listening to their music too loud. It's not just bitching about them, it's actually inconveniencing ME and that's when it annoys me.

[TurdBerglar]

how long is the escalator trip if you remain stationary on it?

[Bob]

i was walking behind this one guy today, he had an ipod and a hoodie, and he had one of those attachemnts that are like speakers for ipods, you know, so you can play them out loud? and he had the speaker in his hood, and he was just blasting it. why carry an ipod?

the only reason to do that is to purposely be a jerk

[TurdBerglar]

see that's annoying if her were doing it on the bus/subway

[QueenAdrock]

how long is the escalator trip if you remain stationary on it?

It depends. The one at my normal stop isn't too long, but if it's a matter of seconds to get onto that last train, they're definitely needed. We've got the largest escalator on the east coast at another station, and another few huge ones. I timed it as taking me 1 and a half minutes to climb up, and about 6 minutes to just stand on those. When those get clogged...Jesus.

[Bob]

see that's annoying if her were doing it on the bus/subway

yeah, it was just on the street. but he was walking towards the train station, he looked like the kind of guy who'd do it there too. just the sort of "i don't give a fuck" attitude, you know. he was walking slow though (which also pisses me off but that's just me being anal), so i passed him, i dunno if he got on a train

[TurdBerglar]

wow six minutes. i can understand the escalator rule now.


headphone rule... still retarded

[beastiegirrl101]

It's a violation of Metro policy, at very least. No food, no drink, no music (with the exception of it being muted to everyone else through headphones). ."

for serious?

man here everyone is eating breakfast, lunch and dinner on the el. It seriously grosses me out when I see people eating like chips or something...then touch the seat or metal bars on the car and then lick their fingers. ...BARF...man, you have no clue who's been sneezing all over the place or picking God knows what. Germs people, germs. The one time I brought coffee in the el I spilled it all over myslef due to all the jerking around. So, I learned my lesson.

[Kerrbear]

Of course I also think guys should get up for ladies, and younger folks should let the older people like kerrbear have their seats.

Cmute, you and I are gonna GO!

[Big Gus]

You should try and deal with the chavs who "rock" happy hardcore through the tinny speakers on their mobile phones UK stylee.... Although some kids trying to rap along to Still DRE the other week amused me.

I dont notice other peoples load ipod/whatevers. I got my own playing....