fresh air on public transportation

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

is anyone else bothered by space hogs on public transportation? for example: you're sitting in a typical 2-seater train seat, when all of a sudden some big fat person w/ like twenty briefcases and shopping bags and cellphones and other shit just HAS to occupy the seat next to you -- practically pushing you into the window b/c (a) the seats are so narrow; (b) they're so fat; and/or (c) they have so much SHIT on their person.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

i WAS going to call this "fat people on public transportation." i rethought this, not only because it is too calum-esque sounding but more importantly b/c fat people are not the ONLY space hogs on the subway or the bus.

still, it ALWAYS seems like i get squeezed like a beercan by these people on public transportation. i'm not as skinny as i once was, but i am still relatively thin -- so that MUST play a role in this!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.jasonbentley.org/blog/img/terry_gross_wallpaper.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

interesting -- i never would've thought that someone would do that jaymc!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

what are fat people supposed to do? not sit down? live with it.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

there are a lot of very annoying people who ride the subway, and relatively few of them are fat.

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

if i'm feeling crowded in, i just stand up, or go move somewhere else. i'm usually just going a few stops anyway, big deal.

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)

So, if I sat right next to you on a squishy train seat would this piss you off Tad? =D

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

I shouldn't complain, really, because it's no one's fault but my own that I'm wearing 3.5" heels on any given day. But yes, I sympathize with the orig post, esp on the plain grey benches, which apparently some people interpret as an opportunity to take up two and a half peoples' worth of space with their knees and elbows and crap.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)

People who take up space don't bother me too much - fatties/people carrying stuff need to get around too. What bothers me is people who choose to stand right in front of the goddamned door. With their bigass backpack in my fucking way.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

I hate that too! I hate school kids who have HUGE FUCKOFF BAGS full of books and crap, who all sit with their gangly legs and bags sprawled all over the aisle, so the only way to walk up the aisle is to literally leap over it all, or - my version - tread on their damn bags.

I kind of feel bad otoh for very large people who take up most of a seat; they must be so selfconcious as it is without people going "ew theyre squashing me and they smell" :(

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 01:20 (twenty years ago)

You get what you paid for, and since you didn't pay for subsidized mass transit this is what you get i.e. bad service.

― guy, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 01:23 (twenty years ago)

not really true, last november we passed a bond act freeing up a few billion dollars for transportation projects.

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 01:26 (twenty years ago)

You get what you paid for, and since you didn't pay for subsidized mass transit this is what you get i.e. bad service.

READ ONE MUNICIPAL BOND ISSUE OR TAX BILL, MORAN!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 01:27 (twenty years ago)

Air Freshener C/D S/D etc

Perhaps your answer lies here, depending on how bad public transportation has gotten in your area.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 01:33 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't give up my seat for a pregnant woman. You made that bed, now you lay in it, slutgina.

― Milhouse is not a meme. But 'Milhouse is not a meme' IS a meme. (Adrian Langston, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 02:46 (twenty years ago)

i'm glad that SOMEONE (aka john justen) "got" the joke in this thread's title!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

someone on this bus has had a bad case of beer farts or something, then we just hit a skunk. 40 minutes to my stop.

― how's life, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 09:52 (thirteen years ago)

"I wouldn't give up my seat for a pregnant woman. You made that bed, now you lay in it, slutgina."

I should not laugh at this but this is fuckn hilarious I am sorry.

― Una Stubbs' Tears (Trayce), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 09:56 (thirteen years ago)

also, I think someone else on here has cigarette butts in their pockets.

― how's life, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 10:00 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

I hope the person who just got off the bus was the one who was farting.

― how's life, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 10:31 (twelve years ago)

I can’t help it, gas escapes from my fundament on the least pretext, it’s hard not to mention it now and then, however great my distaste. One day I counted them. Three hundred and fifteen farts in nineteen hours, or an average of over sixteen farts an hour. After all it’s not excessive. Four farts every fifteen minutes. It’s nothing. Not even one fart every four minutes. It’s unbelievable. Damn it, I hardly fart at all, I should never have mentioned it.

as i'm on a beckett kick. tho but farting on public transport is p low.

― Fizzles, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 10:37 (twelve years ago)

It is. I've walked around supermarkets where people just let one go naturally and act as if they are entitled to. These people tend to be older folk, which I guess makes me judge them less.

I can even accept body odour on the bus/train in the heat sometimes, but I have a pretty high tolerance for things. It can get pretty bad, though.

― c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 17:25 (twelve years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.