Dear Annoying Metro Riders

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, OP, now you know who all the morons are who can't figure out the faregates. I'm with you. Especially at rush hour, you have to keep the lines moving. But naturally, folks in this town only think about themselves...

Isn't that exactly what the OP (and now) you are doing...thinking only of themselves. The message is clear..."I am so important that even the slightest disruption in my day annoys me". How is a tourist who isn't experienced in using our metro "thinking only of himself"?

I loathe people like this. I see them in their cars weaving in and out of traffic and laying on the horn if the person in front of them doesn't hit the accelerator the millisecond the light turns green. It's a nauseating DC phenomenon. We've lived in other big cities. People were rushed. But nothing like they are here.

Slow down. Relax. Life is not an emergency. If you are chronically rushed and late, chances are it has nothing to do with annoying people on the metro and everything to do with your own time management skills. Leave a little earlier. Walk through the metro stations instead of running like a fool down the escalators. Take a deep breath and accept that when you live a place with a lot of people, you are going to face little delays here and there. It's not the end of the world. If you rushing to perform brain surgery, than by all means...run! If your child is on her way to the hospital after a car accident, I'll help you get people out of the way. But if you're just trying to get to work....chill out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, OP, now you know who all the morons are who can't figure out the faregates. I'm with you. Especially at rush hour, you have to keep the lines moving. But naturally, folks in this town only think about themselves...

ha! you're an idiot. an idiot asshole.

[Anonymous]

If the little screen that displays the remaining balance is out of order, I wait for the gates to close. Those gates bite hard, and I'm not taking the risk.

But I'll add my rant to the thread: Why do you need to get up for your stop as soon as the train starts moving out of the previous stop? Either get up (and make me get up) BEFORE the train pulls out of Metro Center, or sit until it stops at Gallery Place. I promise, you WILL get off the train if you wait. Just don't make me wrestle my bags and move around while the train is moving. 'Kay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the little screen that displays the remaining balance is out of order, I wait for the gates to close. Those gates bite hard, and I'm not taking the risk.

But I'll add my rant to the thread: Why do you need to get up for your stop as soon as the train starts moving out of the previous stop? Either get up (and make me get up) BEFORE the train pulls out of Metro Center, or sit until it stops at Gallery Place. I promise, you WILL get off the train if you wait. Just don't make me wrestle my bags and move around while the train is moving. 'Kay?

Ha I just posted your same rant on the previous page! I cannot stand when people do that. Its like they should just get up before the train moves again but they need to sit for aother 10 seconds and then make everyone move when the train is slamming on its breaks.

WAIT best metro story EVER! I got on in the middle of the day one day in the winter (a year ago) and I smelled something funny...

There were literally two crack heads (and I am sorry but they were) holding a brown bag of CRABS and eating them shell and all on the metro! Like eyeballing people who walked by bc they thought others would want to take them. HAhaha it was so gross but so humorous!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can neither hear nor see well enough to tell if my card has actually been registered when I tap the target.

look down when you tap and when the green light comes on it's registered.

This is the pp you quoted. I can't see it. I am visually impaired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, OP, now you know who all the morons are who can't figure out the faregates. I'm with you. Especially at rush hour, you have to keep the lines moving. But naturally, folks in this town only think about themselves...

ha! you're an idiot. an idiot asshole.

Nope, the assholes are the people who have to wait until the gates close to swipe their cards, meaning that the lines to get out of the station in the evening back up to the stairs/escalators, meaning that the people on the train coming into the platform can't get off the platform and the people coming into the station can't get through the throngs of people to get on the train. It's about keeping things moving as best as possible, not because I'm in so much of a hurry.

Obviously the poster who is visually impaired needs some extra time, which is fine, but for those of you who are just courtesy-impaired, you're really causing issues that don't need to exist, just because you feel like you have to wait until the gates close before you swipe your card.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, OP, now you know who all the morons are who can't figure out the faregates. I'm with you. Especially at rush hour, you have to keep the lines moving. But naturally, folks in this town only think about themselves...

No kidding. I think this is the southern efficiency DC is famous for. And to all you who say, "but how should the poor tourists know?" - it's not the tourists that are consistently annoying. Sure, Jim Bob and Betty Sue, who stop at the bottom of the escalator with their bemulleted offspring, trying to figure out which direction to move are mildly irritating. But it's the commuters who don't know - or care - about basic courtesies that make you crazy. You take the metro twice a day, five days a week - if you had the brains of a turnip, you'd have figured out after about 3 days that:

- It's counterproductive to wave your SmartTrip card on the reader - just hold the damn thing there, and it'll go faster.
- Plopping your Volkswagen-sized handbag that contains - somewhere - a SmartTrip card onto the reader and hoping the gate will open isn't the best way to go about it.
- Yes, as OP says, you can, and should, start the entry or exit process before the gate closes.
- If you stand in the doorway as others are trying to enter or exit a train, effectively turning a 2-lane process into a one-lane process, you are at best an inconsiderate boob, and at worst, a complete asshole. Just slightly worse than those who refuse to move to the center of the car when getting on the traim.

[Anonymous]

I can't find the thread with the tripping video! Could a kind DCUM soul point the way, please?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, OP, now you know who all the morons are who can't figure out the faregates. I'm with you. Especially at rush hour, you have to keep the lines moving. But naturally, folks in this town only think about themselves...

ha! you're an idiot. an idiot asshole.

Nope, the assholes are the people who have to wait until the gates close to swipe their cards, meaning that the lines to get out of the station in the evening back up to the stairs/escalators, meaning that the people on the train coming into the platform can't get off the platform and the people coming into the station can't get through the throngs of people to get on the train. It's about keeping things moving as best as possible, not because I'm in so much of a hurry.

Obviously the poster who is visually impaired needs some extra time, which is fine, but for those of you who are just courtesy-impaired, you're really causing issues that don't need to exist, just because you feel like you have to wait until the gates close before you swipe your card.

huh. yeah. you're still an idiot. an idiot and an asshole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, OP, now you know who all the morons are who can't figure out the faregates. I'm with you. Especially at rush hour, you have to keep the lines moving. But naturally, folks in this town only think about themselves...

ha! you're an idiot. an idiot asshole.

Nope, the assholes are the people who have to wait until the gates close to swipe their cards, meaning that the lines to get out of the station in the evening back up to the stairs/escalators, meaning that the people on the train coming into the platform can't get off the platform and the people coming into the station can't get through the throngs of people to get on the train. It's about keeping things moving as best as possible, not because I'm in so much of a hurry.

Obviously the poster who is visually impaired needs some extra time, which is fine, but for those of you who are just courtesy-impaired, you're really causing issues that don't need to exist, just because you feel like you have to wait until the gates close before you swipe your card.

huh. yeah. you're still an idiot. an idiot and an asshole.

Nope, I'm just efficient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, OP, now you know who all the morons are who can't figure out the faregates. I'm with you. Especially at rush hour, you have to keep the lines moving. But naturally, folks in this town only think about themselves...

ha! you're an idiot. an idiot asshole.

Nope, the assholes are the people who have to wait until the gates close to swipe their cards, meaning that the lines to get out of the station in the evening back up to the stairs/escalators, meaning that the people on the train coming into the platform can't get off the platform and the people coming into the station can't get through the throngs of people to get on the train. It's about keeping things moving as best as possible, not because I'm in so much of a hurry.

Obviously the poster who is visually impaired needs some extra time, which is fine, but for those of you who are just courtesy-impaired, you're really causing issues that don't need to exist, just because you feel like you have to wait until the gates close before you swipe your card.

huh. yeah. you're still an idiot. an idiot and an asshole.

Nope, I'm just efficient.

How is being angry at nearly everyone on the metro and thinking that people who don't want to get hit by the gates are assholes efficient, exactly? Sounds more like small-minded, mean-spirited, and being incapable of understanding that the metro gates themselves (the faulty readers, the shittily-timed gates) are more of a problem than the people who wait for the gates due to the problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope, I'm just efficient.

How is being angry at nearly everyone on the metro and thinking that people who don't want to get hit by the gates are assholes efficient, exactly? Sounds more like small-minded, mean-spirited, and being incapable of understanding that the metro gates themselves (the faulty readers, the shittily-timed gates) are more of a problem than the people who wait for the gates due to the problems.

Honey, you sound like the angry one. It is efficient to swipe your card immediately after the person in front of you, because the gates do not need to close between each person.

Sure, the gates don't work well. Nothing on Metro works well. But people being smart about how they use Metro can make it work better (another example would be not jumping through the doors as they are closing, which has a high likelihood of making that door inoperable and causing the train to go out of service).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Honey, you sound like the angry one. It is efficient to swipe your card immediately after the person in front of you, because the gates do not need to close between each person.

Sure, the gates don't work well. Nothing on Metro works well. But people being smart about how they use Metro can make it work better (another example would be not jumping through the doors as they are closing, which has a high likelihood of making that door inoperable and causing the train to go out of service).

Darling, I guarantee I'm not angry. I didn't call anyone an asshole, but I did characterize your rant pretty well, I think.

And how is having your card not register and having to get a station attendant to help you "being smart" about using metro? That happens about 25% of the time I try to quickly go through gates. You're just impatient and angry and trying to externalize your anger to others, instead of dealing with the fact that crowded public transit will never be efficient in the U.S.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's tourist season!!!!!

No, the regular commuters do this. Tourists do not have the Smart Trip cards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is being angry at nearly everyone on the metro and thinking that people who don't want to get hit by the gates are assholes efficient, exactly? Sounds more like small-minded, mean-spirited, and being incapable of understanding that the metro gates themselves (the faulty readers, the shittily-timed gates) are more of a problem than the people who wait for the gates due to the problems.

Honey, you sound like the angry one. ...

I agree. The person who keeps calling people "assholes" sounds like the angry one.