Public Transit Etiquette. (Or lack thereof.)

What are some of the public transit etiquette nuances you've witnessed?
Is there anything usual/unusual about the bus you take every morning?

Tell us your public transit stories!!

I'll kick it off. I took the Oxford-West bus every morning going to school, and one morning while there was ice and snow on the ground - the bus came 10 minutes early as I was walking towards the bus stop. There was another person getting on the stop, and I started running to hurry and catch it. The bus driver proceeded to drive away and as I was running perhaps only 8 meters from the door I slipped and fell on my back.

Each morning elementary school kids walk to school and they so happened to be passing by at that exact moment. A group of school children proceeded to laugh at me as the bus drove away.

Ugh. Praise Allah for dignity and iPods.

Bus drivers need to NOT arrive early at a stop - it's just not nice. Or maybe other passengers should ask the drivers to wait for people. I had to wait a half hour in the cold for the next one.

 

That sucks. I have a friend who was trying to run and catch a bus.....looking at the bus, not where she was going....and ran smack into a pole....knocking herself out.
We were all telling our most embarrassing moment at a dinner once, and her story won. LOL!

For me...there is not public transportation worth writing about here in WS and there was NOTHING in Maryland where I lived. SO I have no personal story.

 

That's okay. Any story is perfectly alright. Hahaha, your poor friend.

 

You should have heard her tell it

 

The worst is when people play their music really loud next to you.
I dont care if your girlfriends wearing a rolex, deal with it!!

The worst driving was when we went on the english course, the uni buses. Flyin' everywhere.

 

i absolutely hate when people rush onto the train when others are trying to get off. i see it all the time when i take the train - people will stand and wait in front of the doors before they open and when they open, they will rush in before people have a chance to get off the train.

i want to throw those people in front of an oncoming train

 

and speaking of this:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma.../10/15/mind_your_manners_t_urges_rude_riders/

article in a local newspaper on this today hahhaa

noice

 

I openly masturbate on public transportation

 

In Ottawa I always thought it was weird that when the bus was super crowed and people were standing all packed together, almost everyone seemed to keep their backpacks hanging on their back, to then proceed to hit people with it, everytime the bus turned or something, isnt like common knowledge that you take your backpack off and put it at your feet holding it with your legs, to not hit people with it? Or Im the only one who does that?

 

i waS catching the bus this one time

then this van came speeding down the road

and there was this ol guy with a shopping kart full of ketchup and tomato sauce

so the van came speeding down the road then hit the old guys shopping kart

and busted all the ketchup bottles and tomato sauces all over the place

i thought it was the old guys blood

but the old guy was uninjured


the odd thing about it there wasnt a grocery store around that area

 

this simple courtesy seems to escape many people...even just holding it in your hand helps much....but no...they have to wear their huge fucking bag

 

i haven't used public transportation enough to really have much of an opinion on it. the buses really do need to keep a tighter schedule though. if you're going to come 20 minutes late every single day, just make that the new scheduled stopping time. there's no reason for passengers to have to sit out in the cold for a half hour just in case this might be the one day a month the bus decides to fly by ten minutes early.

the buses here are generally pretty empty too, so etiquette doesn't come into play as much; 90% of the time you have your own seat nowhere near anyone else anyway.

 

I havent taken a bus in a while. There's the stinky people, the crazies, the loud ones, the perverts, the incompetent drivers, the pervert drivers are the worst.... i could go on forever. I am courteous as long as no one tries to talk to me. I go on, with my earphones and reading material. I hate when people try to talk to me. Unless its old women. they can talk to me all they want. Id rather hire a cab at this point than get on a bus.

 

it's obvious, but some drivers need to drive less recklessly. this one asshole who would always drive like a tweaked imp hit the brakes way too suddenly and I lost my balance and a piece of metal protruding from the floor punctured an inch long, inch deep hole right into my face. came very, very close to losing my left eye or having my nose crushed or my mouth gashed up.
at least I got a cool scar out of it.

 

Dude, Ive seen so many people fly inside busses. It wasnt even funny. happened to my mom a few times. Like 3, but it was funny when it happened to her.

 

fuck
sounds like she wasn't bleeding profusely from her face at least :cheers2:

 

My town is too small for public transit.

 

One of the reasons I live where I do is because I don’t need a car. But our public bus system isn’t really that great,So I usually use a bicycle

The thing I hate the worst is when some scumbag sits down at the bus stop bench for 5-10 minutes and spits a bunch of nasty luggies on the sidewalk in front of it.

That makes me so mad.. Then women with little kids come and the sidewalk if filthy.

Public transportation in the U.S. sucks.

 

That happens here too, you wind up getting a backpack in the face.

But it's hell to put your backpack down on the floor in the winter time. It's all slush and grime on the floors, you're liable to get your papers wet doing that.

 

Hahaha. It's so sad when you can overhear people's music. I always try and peg what they're listening to, but the other day this really young and hip black chick was blaring AC/DC in her ear buds in front of me and it threw me off for a second.

It's worse when it rains because all the streeties and crackheads board the bus.