Call me weird or whatever else you wish, but what I am about to tell you about really does bother me!
I take metro every day to go to work, to move around the city during the day, and of course to get home in the evening. It's quiet reliable, fast and simply convenient mean of transportation, no doubt about it. Even though it does bother me a little when I calculate the hours a week I spend being underground...makes me feel like a rat every now and than...but oh well. It's one of the "beauties" of a city life, not much to do about it.
It won't come as a surprise to any (or at least so I would imagine) that you can meet all sorts of characters on the tube. Depending on the time of day, metro (well, people you see there) represent a city's population quite objectively.
MORNING: business suits, well dressed and make-up-ed women, some mothers with kids bringing them to school, dedicated and responsible students and lots and lots of housekeepers.
AFTERNOON: well, here it also depends on a part of the city you are in at a given moment. Yet, there seem to be a tendency: teenagers, wildly dressed art students, ladies (whose possible occupation remains a mistery to me to this), who would wear anything and everythig, as long as it comes in many different colors and...doesn't match. As ridiculous as some may look, I gotta admit one thing- it does take courage to leave your house dressed that way.
EVENING: the morning crowed is back, obviously looking less sharp than they did in the morning, a little worn out and just tired. But in addition to them, you find somewhat fancy dressed, usually young people, smelling nice and giggling their way, going for before-dinner drinks, dinners and aperitifs. Another slightly nasty addition, smelly homeless-looking people, who actually act weird and sometimes bother those around them (I just can't even imagine where and why they are going).
This is all good and understandable so far. But let me finally reveal that little element in passengers' behavior that annoys me so much.
Picture the following:
The metro car is not full, but all the seats are taken. As the train approaches the station, some people get off, but not many get on, so there are seats that are unoccupied. Keep in mind that the set of seat in the metro are designed to seat 4 people. So, what happens next is a person sitting next to another person moves, leaving an empty seat between him/her and another person. Here comes my million dollar question: WHY?!?!?! What is the point, especially, if one is getting off at the next station? Really, this is sooo weird! I have been trying to understand this move for quite some time now, but still nothing. What is the logic behind it? Someone, please, explain!!!
I take metro every day to go to work, to move around the city during the day, and of course to get home in the evening. It's quiet reliable, fast and simply convenient mean of transportation, no doubt about it. Even though it does bother me a little when I calculate the hours a week I spend being underground...makes me feel like a rat every now and than...but oh well. It's one of the "beauties" of a city life, not much to do about it.
It won't come as a surprise to any (or at least so I would imagine) that you can meet all sorts of characters on the tube. Depending on the time of day, metro (well, people you see there) represent a city's population quite objectively.
MORNING: business suits, well dressed and make-up-ed women, some mothers with kids bringing them to school, dedicated and responsible students and lots and lots of housekeepers.
AFTERNOON: well, here it also depends on a part of the city you are in at a given moment. Yet, there seem to be a tendency: teenagers, wildly dressed art students, ladies (whose possible occupation remains a mistery to me to this), who would wear anything and everythig, as long as it comes in many different colors and...doesn't match. As ridiculous as some may look, I gotta admit one thing- it does take courage to leave your house dressed that way.
EVENING: the morning crowed is back, obviously looking less sharp than they did in the morning, a little worn out and just tired. But in addition to them, you find somewhat fancy dressed, usually young people, smelling nice and giggling their way, going for before-dinner drinks, dinners and aperitifs. Another slightly nasty addition, smelly homeless-looking people, who actually act weird and sometimes bother those around them (I just can't even imagine where and why they are going).
This is all good and understandable so far. But let me finally reveal that little element in passengers' behavior that annoys me so much.
Picture the following:
The metro car is not full, but all the seats are taken. As the train approaches the station, some people get off, but not many get on, so there are seats that are unoccupied. Keep in mind that the set of seat in the metro are designed to seat 4 people. So, what happens next is a person sitting next to another person moves, leaving an empty seat between him/her and another person. Here comes my million dollar question: WHY?!?!?! What is the point, especially, if one is getting off at the next station? Really, this is sooo weird! I have been trying to understand this move for quite some time now, but still nothing. What is the logic behind it? Someone, please, explain!!!
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