Rush Hour Madness

Doc

Bit of a rant but...

People turn into animals at rush hour going home. One thing that really pisses me off beyond belief is people pushing me onto a train or bus so they can get on a few seconds faster then if they waited there turn what’s the point? I get the train at Pearse going north so it’s the first stop for the train so I walk to the end of the platform wait for everyone to squeeze and push there way on then walk on to the last carriage find a seat and sit down. Why do people feel the need to push?

SheroN

becaue people are ignorant.

K!LL!@N

It's just as bad trying to get off the trains sometimes.
People crowded around the door waiting to get on.
You end up having to push through them to get off.
I always make a point of standing out of the way of people getting off cos i know what a pain it is.

Killian

Dr. Loon

Not trolling here, but I find when getting off the DART on my way into town from the Southside that the people always push their way on before letting you off. Always.

While if travelling from the Southside and alighting on the Northside platform people mostly will wait until everyone's off the train before boarding themselves. More manners in otherwords.

I hate travelling in rush hour - DART tends to be worse than the bus. On the DART there's shítloads of people standing.... but even one morning when it wasn't too bad. I was holding onto a pole standing up, and some dude was legging it down the ramp at Killester to make it on the train before it left. Well he made it, and then stood in front of me panting into my face. ****ing wanker.

Sheron is right. People are mostly ignorant. Except for everyone on boards of course. None of us would EVER push past anyone.

Lafortezza

I used to get the DART to work and college a few years back. I was "lucky" enough to be getting it from Bray so I always got a seat.
But it was easy to see that alot of people would get "The Commuter Rage" when trying to get on/off/get a seat or whatever.

I get the same anger when I'm walking down the path, especially Dame St for some reason, and people either walk too slow ,walk then stop in the middle of the path, a group (usually spanish) walk 3 or 4 across the path.

Thats when I start swinging elbows and dropping the shoulder if people are blatantly being rude about making way for others.

grr

T.G Catter

i'm sure we're all guilty of 'commuter rage', i know i am.

ixoy

I always let everyone off before getting on - it's incredibly rude, and utterly inexcusable, to do otherwise. What's interesting though is the herd mentality - if the person nearest the door waits, so does the mini crowd behind him. If that person pushes their way on, then so does everyone almost. I generally give such people filthy looks and mutter about manners as I depart the train.

Dr. Loon

Originally posted by ixoy
- if the person nearest the door waits, so does the mini crowd behind him. If that person pushes their way on, then so does everyone almost. I generally give such people filthy looks and mutter about manners as I depart the train.

This is all very true. I tend not to mutter though. I shout "Let me off the ****in train"! I find it works better.

Doc

Did something similar yesterday "Do you mind not ****ing pushing me?"
Don’t think the guy realized what he was actually doing until I said it to him.

Trojan

Ah, see what you guys are all missing out on is taking advantage of the slightly higher starting position *inside* the train. Gravity does wonders for your momentum, so if the people outside are too close to the doors then they simply get knocked backwards a couple of feet when you plough into them (I find leading with a shoulder helps). And there's no guilt involved since if they weren't pushing forward they wouldn't be in your way. Perfectly logical, eh?

Lump

Pfff people are rude. However on the Tube in London, they are rather nice about it..... the rule is walk on the left when moving around the stations, and also to let the people off before you get on. At rush hours they have people standing in the busy stations telling you to let people off etc etc. It's such a well run system, until something goes wrong, then it grounds to a halt.


John

Dr. Loon

Originally posted by Lump
Pfff people are rude. However on the Tube in London, they are rather nice about it..... the rule is walk on the left when moving around the stations, and also to let the people off before you get on. At rush hours they have people standing in the busy stations telling you to let people off etc etc. It's such a well run system, until something goes wrong, then it grounds to a halt.


John

Aye I agree with you there. I found it to be the same with the New York subway.
So it's not people are rude, rather "Dubliners" are rude.

Cake Fiend

This RHM phenomenon is something I began to notice years ago, and have still not ceased to be frustrated by. Most people in this city seem to be morons and/or sheep.

I used to deliberately shoulder people out of my way when I got off a DART. One smart wanker commented on my 'rudeness' once, I asked him what the -F- he expected me to do when he was standing in the way of my exit from the train. The gormless look on his face afterward implied he hadn't even realized what he had been doing all along.

You get the same thing with buses sometimes, but it's nowhere near as prevalent as with the DART. At least the people who pay with coins have to line up on the left; it's the twats rushing on-board with tickets in-hand that cause problems for people trying to disembark.