Friday, June 30, 2006

Underground Etiquette





If you ride underground public transit (The Tube, The Subway, The Metro) read Underground Etiquette.

So far there are 33 lessons on things you really should and shouldn't do on The Tube.

I am guilty of Lesson One: Don't read over people's shoulders.

12 comments:

  1. D.Prince: Lesson 14 in which the author says, "I have never, ever seen a woman do this on the tube." I think you should send them an email. This could be a textbook case.

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  2. Coincidence or what?

    I did my latest post before I read this.

    And I AM on the overground.

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  3. Geoff: To add to the coincidence, I was just over at yours reading your overground post while you were at mine reading my underground post.
    *inserts theme from Twilight Zone*

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  4. Can you find any 'hayride' etiquette? We don't do the subway/bus/train thing around here.

    Its car, truck, bike, 4wheeler, horse or buggy.

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  5. Xtasy: Tempting as it is, do not engage in hay fights.

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  6. guilty though i may be of contributing to global warming, i refuse to ride public transportation. i spent at least ten years relying on the shit, long enough to know conclusively that I AM A NUT MAGNET. if there is a smelly, scizophrenic, talkative person within a five block radius, that person will be irresistably pulled in by my inviso-nut-tractor beam and end up sitting next to me on the bus, flailing and flapping, foaming, twitching, farting and exclaiming loudly about christ and the cia. NO! BAD NUTTY PERSON! GO DIE NOW!

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  7. First Nations: My friend is a nut magnet. A drunk guy got on the bus. She was at the back. She said, "Watch. He'll find me." She kept her head down. She didn't make eye contact. He headed to the back. He fell into her lap.

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  8. HAHA! I loved this! I am all over number 2 (that sounds odd). I am very insistant that I give up my seat for ANYONE older (you know-old) handicapped, preggers...anything that would 'require' a seat...I especially like to do this if ther is some man around and I am the one who jumps up first. Its like: SLAM, didn't your Mama teach you any manners, dude?

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  9. ~D: I do that too. In fact, I've announced, "Would one of you gentlemen like to give up your seat for this lady?" I have no shame.

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  10. They need to loop the Police singing
    "Don't stand
    Don't stand so close to me
    Don't stand..."

    How can the land of 'manners before morals' have devolved to such deprivation.. tsk tsk.

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  11. HE: They'll soon have to hire professional "pushers" to move the crowds onto the trains as they do in Japan.

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