Cars & Transportation

Train Ettiquette

Cars & Transportation

Posted by: LT17

22nd Feb 2011 12:10pm

I commute to and from work every day on the train. It's only a 25 minute journey when it stops at all stations, so it's quick and should be a painless exercise.

However, I'm wondering if anyone else is frustrated with the following types of behaviours on the train, or whether it is just understood and unnoticed, that these simple gestures of kindness no longer exist

- People pushing in front of you to be first on the train, just as the train arrives, when you have been waiting patiently at that spot for some time
- Men sitting next to you with their legs spread far apart, so they take up half of your seat.
- High School students who pay a portion fare and still sit down
- People talking loudly on their mobiles
- People who have sat the entire trip, not waiting until those who have stood the entire trip get off the train.

Am I the only one?

glendaj
  • 19th Mar 2011 11:35am

I couldn;'t agree with you more! Schoolkids standing near the door with their school bags on the floor so you have to step over them to get off the train and they make no attempt to move, just look at you like you are at fault. People not standing back on the platform to allow you to get off without falling down between the train and the platform especially at busy stations.

I was brought up to stand and wait and not be impatient. So what if you don't score a seat. It's not the end of the world! And I am a woman.

I was also taught to walk on the left hand side of the footpath but this seem to be a thing of the past. I think people today are in such a hurry and don't really care what they are doing to other people, just their own agenda is all that matters.


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