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10-30-2007, 01:59 PM
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Re: Commuter Vent of the Day
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I like the person who rushes to the doors so they can be first to enter. Calm down, everyone is going to get a seat. [/ QUOTE ] You've clearly never been to New York. 
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#12
10-30-2007, 02:05 PM
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Re: Commuter Vent of the Day
My wife is eight months pregnant and she tells me that individuals on her train do not offer her their seat, etc. Instead they choose to push and smash into her in an effort to stake claim to whatever trivial amount of seat space is remaining.
I was pure evil in my late teen and early twenties, did all sorts of antisocial things that I regret today, but I always made it a point to yield my seat to pregnant women, the elderly, and the infirm. Common decency seems to have disintegrated with Baby Boomers moving into the middle ages and later. The evisceration of the middle class and a general dog-eat-dog metameme seems to have pushed people to "get theirs" in even the most trivial of matters.
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#13
10-30-2007, 02:18 PM
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Re: Commuter Vent of the Day
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[ QUOTE ] I like the person who rushes to the doors so they can be first to enter. Calm down, everyone is going to get a seat. [/ QUOTE ] You've clearly never been to New York. [/ QUOTE ] I have, and I am clearly talking about situations that don't warrant running to be first in line.
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#14
10-30-2007, 02:19 PM
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Re: Commuter Vent of the Day
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Common decency seems to have disintegrated with Baby Boomers moving into the middle ages and later. The evisceration of the middle class and a general dog-eat-dog metameme seems to have pushed people to "get theirs" in even the most trivial of matters. [/ QUOTE ] Well, perhaps you can go even farther. Bearing in mind that most people don't get what they want in important matters, the most trivial of matters may be the only arena left in which they can hope to get anything they want.
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#15
10-30-2007, 02:28 PM
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Well, perhaps you can go even farther. Bearing in mind that most people don't get what they want in important matters, the most trivial of matters may be the only arena left in which they can hope to get anything they want. [/ QUOTE ] That is solid insight, mosdef. I'm never going to get that promotion, I'm never going to get that trophy wife, I'm never going to get that summer home, I'm never going to get that nice car, etc. And I'll be damned if I give that pregnant bitch my seat on the train. If I give that up, what do I have? Answer: Common decency, but a less comfortable train ride.
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#16
10-30-2007, 02:50 PM
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Re: Commuter Vent of the Day
Bay St. station? They're always trying to get on at Bay because they were on Cumberland having some precious scone somewhere.
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#17
10-30-2007, 02:52 PM
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Bay St. station? They're always trying to get on at Bay because they were on Cumberland having some precious scone somewhere. [/ QUOTE ] I live near Dupont station. That's where I get on in the morning and that's where the event in OP occured. Maybe she wanted but couldn't afford a Yorkville address had to settle for the Annex and that's why she was in a huff to start.
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#19
10-30-2007, 04:09 PM
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Re: Commuter Vent of the Day
I get this person at my bus stop as well. The dude who clearly is upset the bus is late and would like somebody to notice. The last time it happened he was so busy making sure we sympathized with him, he managed to somehow miss that his bus came and went when he was there.
I am not by nature a patient person, but when I committed to using mass transit to get to work, you've pretty much just gotta relax and let it flow.
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