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May 13, 2009 at 7:05 pm #590869
JiggersMemberI have noticed a lot lately that when I catch a bus and get off at my spot/s, other riders trying to get on have no courtesy in letting you have enough space to get off the bus stairs onto the sidewalk. I literally almost knocked some guys teeth in because he was standing right in front of the bus stairs and wouldn’t give me enough room to walk buy him. Everyone needs to chill. The bus sin’t going anywhere, and let the people get off enough room to get onto the sidewalk. This also happens at the junction stops as well.
May 13, 2009 at 7:11 pm #666571
austinMemberPeople do like to crowd around the front door like crazy on the bus. Elevator rules people! Also the group of riders who get on the bus and like to stand right next to the front door, blocking everyone. Never did understand that one. Maybe the bus drivers give off a maternal vibe that calms people?
I think it’s funny that you say, “I literally almost knocked some guys teeth in”, and in the next sentence “Everyone needs to chill.”
May 13, 2009 at 7:38 pm #666572
MrJTMemberJiggers for Mayor !
May 13, 2009 at 7:54 pm #666573
JustSarahParticipantI definitely get where you’re coming from. I give these people “the look” and they usually move. I love the drivers that tell people to move aside for the disembarking passengers.
I have a whole list of bus pet peeves, including the “front crowders” mentioned above. The other major one is people who take up two seats on a crowded bus, especially if they act put out when asked to move their precious purse so that a *paying passenger* can have the seat.
On the bus I used to take into work, there was a guy who would ride with his dog. He’d often sit in the front side-facing (disabled and elderly) seats with his dog lying across the two seats next to him, and would never make his dog move for another passenger. Finally someone said something to him when he didn’t give up any of his three seats for a woman with a walker. Ugh, he pissed me off.
May 13, 2009 at 9:08 pm #666574
CMPParticipantHow about not smoking a cigarette right before you get on the bus? Some people are like PigPen with a cloud of stink following them around and it grosses me out. Or the people that cut in front of those who have been waiting much longer for the bus to arrive? Wait your turn, especially if the bus is crowded.
May 13, 2009 at 9:19 pm #666575
JanSParticipantSince I live AND work in West Seattle (work at home)…I don’t commute much. But I ws on a bus last evening that was fairly crowded. I’m 62, I use a cane when out and about, and it’s obvious that I am one who should be utilizing the front seats. There were at least 6 very able bodied people, male and female, sitting on these seats, and not one would move, nor look me in the eye as I looked at them – I guess if they don’t look at you, it’s like you don’t exist.. I squeezed into a little space that made the man next to me very uncomfortable, and you would have thought that I had committed a crime…
Yes…the “me” generation is out there in full force…
May 13, 2009 at 9:31 pm #666576
transplantellaParticipantBoarding and exiting the bus would be much easier if Metro did it the sane way:
Board the bus through front door only and exit the bus through rear door only. Voila, problem solved. It’s done this way throughout the world…..
….but of course that method would never work in Seattle since you sometimes pay upon entering and other times pay upon exiting depending on what day it is and which direction the bus is traveling…..
Brilliant plan on their part.
May 13, 2009 at 9:34 pm #666577
swimcatMemberJanS, I agree! Several years ago, I broke my arm and had a cast and couldn’t drive so I would ride the bus to work. Besides the people who would cut in front of me when I had been waiting there the longest (WTF?), not one person ever offered me a disabled /elder seat in the front. It was very obvious to anyone with functioning eyeballs that I was having trouble balancing all the crap I carry with me, yet I’d end up standing all the way from Seattle to Bellevue, herding my bags with my feet while holding on with my one good hand.
You would think these people are clueless or idiotic, but I sadly think they are just self-absorbed and not in the moment.
May 13, 2009 at 9:38 pm #666578
austinMemberlol @ the theory that the problem is Seattle is a backwards hick town and it’s all metro’s fault that people act like robots.
May 14, 2009 at 12:37 am #666579
celeste17ParticipantI will give up my seat to anyone who needs it. If they are with a cane, pregnant or in a cast. My brother who is 6’5″ will give up his seat to anyone needing it. Sometimes I wonder why people don’t have manners. Just because they got on the bus first doesn’t mean they get to have the seat when someone else needs it. And the people who don’t get off the bus when its packed so others can get off need to have a stick shoved up their you know what.
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