r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Luckyfox420 • 2d ago
This person taking up two priority seats and not moving when asked
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u/Fit-Season-345 2d ago
I was taking the train to Boston one time, and a guy did this. He refused to move even for the conductor. At the next train stop, the police came on and dragged him off.
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u/FlatSpinMan 2d ago
A win for the decent people.
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u/DctrBojangles 1d ago
That’s because Bostonians don’t put up with that kind of crap
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u/PrinzDuncan 1d ago
Tbh nowhere else do you get people willing to fight you so readily after inconveniencing the general public
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u/slash_networkboy 1d ago
Because all their fucks were spent on the big dig inconveniencing the lot of them.
Incidentally I wonder what would happen if someone just simply sat next to her on the outer edge with one asscheek hanging off till she got up or scooted over...
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u/extra_whelmed 1d ago
As a person from Boston, my first thought was ‘just sit on the edge and get cozy until she moves over’
I have definitely gotten cozy on more than a few train rides. I’m tired, I wish to sit, I see a seat, I sit in it. If they get mad and scoot over in a huff I put on my nice voice and say THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SCOOTIN and put a big dumb smile on my face
Or sometimes they yell EXCUSE ME and I say ‘no worries, you are excused’
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u/carolinabbwisbestbbq 1d ago
I’m a smaller guy (5’8 130 pounds soaking wet) my habit of saying “you’re excused” to people who say “excuse me” is 100% going to get me knocked out eventually but I’ll enjoy it until then
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u/Switchy_Goofball 1d ago
Try “there is no excuse for you” if you wanna speedrun the KO
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u/triopals 1d ago
Bro you don’t live in Boston we are the crap trust me
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u/encounterjed 1d ago
As a Bostonian all my life, if you sit like this on the train (especially the orange line) some 40yr old immigrant woman will just sit on you 😂 mf’s WILL get their seat
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u/sweetfits 1d ago
In your defense, there is an ethos at least among real Bostonians… a sense of right and wrong and a willingness to enforce it. I’m not sure it always aligns with the rest of the country’s moral code, but it’s something.
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u/Successful_Moment_91 1d ago
Do not ever attempt to steal someone’s parking space that they just dug out snow for an hour on the side of a street
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u/CoachDT 1d ago
Am I crazy or does that just seem normal?
Like you’d have to actively be an asshole to think that’s an alright thing to do. I literally don’t care about any arguments against this regarding legality. If you’re not a piece of trash human being, you’d let someone get the spot they shoveled out.
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u/carolinabbwisbestbbq 1d ago
If it’s before the sun is up, I could see someone pulling in unaware of the other person’s labor, just incredulous at their luck. I could see myself doing that. But I would immediately apologize profusely and offer to move my car or dig out another spot if I noticed the situation in post
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u/CoachDT 1d ago
Oh for sure an accident is an accident. Or rather, in this situation it’s totally harmless with no I’ll intent. However I’ve seen folks watch someone shovel just to park into that spot.
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u/Sarnadas 2d ago
Ah, the MBTA Commuter Rail. Hellooooo neighbor. I witnessed someone being dragged off a few months ago, too. No ticket. Claimed it was his right to travel and said, "What are you going to do, force me off the train?"
Imagine a Morgan Freeman voiceover: "They did, in fact, force him off that train."
In a random town, too! He might still be walking home...
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u/TheyTrustMeWithTools 2d ago
In my mind Morgan Freeman is saying something more along the lines of, "that day, he learned the value of why you should buy a ticket before getting on the train."
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u/SeldomSeenMe 2d ago
Spot on, "They did, in fact, force him off that train." reads in Ron Howard's voice
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u/A_dimly_lit_ashtray 2d ago
Ron Howard would be more frank.
"Waddya gonna do, force me off the train?"
They did.
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u/Inside-Ad-2156 2d ago
I was thinking David Attenborough myself.
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u/SeldomSeenMe 2d ago
I mean the style of that phrase is right out of Arrested Development. I imagine Attenborough speaking about how peace and tranquillity were restored in this little habitat once the intruder was removed or something lol
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u/UnstableBiologist 2d ago
Hello there neighbors! Recently when I was riding the rail, I witnessed a couple that were swiftly pulled off by police. Both for being too high/belligerent to the conductors, and having no tickets. They too were yelling about their right to travel while being cuffed and dragged out.
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u/YoCreoPollo 2d ago
As someone who has to take the NYC public transportation, I envy you all.
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u/Cruciverbalist 1d ago
I live in Chicago so I get a choice of awful. Blue line for families with masses of luggage who have no idea where they're going, brown line for wall to wall hipsters, green line for "interesting" fashion choices and red line for aggressive panhandlers and the ever present stale urine. (let's just say you touch your seat before you sit)
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u/YoCreoPollo 1d ago
Sounds like you don't want to touch the seat. Like maybe I'll just stand
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u/AbsolutelyN0tThanks 1d ago
The phrase "Right to travel" has given me some unpleasant flashbacks of the few times I've run into sovereign citizens. They love using that phrase when caught without a train/bus ticket, a license, registration, etc...
Some of the most infuriating people on the planet. It's like a starter-cult for morons.
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u/Heavy_Solution_4099 2d ago
They do have a right to travel, but that right is reserved to their feet. All other methods cost money.
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u/taxoplasma_gondii 2d ago
it was his right to travel
Probably a sovereign citizen.
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u/blackpawed 2d ago
Probably a sovereign citizen.
But oddly, no responsibility to go with those rights.
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u/TheBlack2007 2d ago
Claimed it was his right to travel
Ah yes, SovCits and their bullshit... They also drive under the influence and when stopped claim cops can't do jack shit about it because "they are not driving, they are traveling"
Or how in my country they claim they are prisoners of war (because Germany was occupied in the 40s) and thus, have every right to receive any service for free and be sustained by the "occupation force"
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u/Cy41995 1d ago
Well there's a new one. It's nice to see that no matter what country or culture you come from, grifters will always be grifters.
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u/Lestrygonians 1d ago
It’s not even a grift, because the only ones falling for it are the SovCits themselves! No cop or judge is saying, “Hmm, you’re right, the gold fringe on this flag DOES mean I have to let you go with all the cash in my wallet! My mistake!” It’s some weird mix of delusion and libertarian civil disobedience.
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u/Cheshire_Jester 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sovcits might be the most amusing people on the planet.
One has to posses a truly beautiful mind to think that you’re just a few magic words, said at the right time and in the right order, from avoiding any of the consequences anyone else would face for whatever you’re currently doing.
Like, if you believe that the state is unjustly foisting itself upon you with its jackbooted thugs, and even if you were categorically correct in that assertion, what makes you think that those same thugs would hesitate to put their jacked boots to your neck when you flaunt how smart and above the law you are compared to them. Like, of course they’re still going to give you a citation, and of course when you refuse to cooperate they’re going to arrest you.
Even if the law is on your side, with all your magical words, the cops aren’t there to debate that. That’s what the courts are for. Take your special words to the judge, and see if you can facts and logic your way around them.
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u/riceandcashews 1d ago
It's so funny because they are always so convinced that the cops have no authority over them, even though there are hundreds of videos showing that this isn't true and doesn't work even when they make their magic incantation of legalese
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u/Gnostromo 2d ago
ahhh so you haven't been down the internet rabbithole called Sovereign Citizens... Enjoy !!
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u/CommieColin 2d ago
In a random town, too! He might still be walking home…
But did he ever return? No, he never returned. And his fate is still unlearned
He will walk forever through the suburbs of Boston
He’s the man who never returned
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u/Stranded_Send_Nudes 2d ago
I visited Boston once to visit a girlfriend and we were riding the MBTA into town from her university. An elderly couple got on and we immediately got up and gave them our seats as the train was full.
Suddenly, right in my ear I hear a deep voice say, “You’re not from around here, are you?”
Scared the stuffing out of me. As I turned, I saw a very muscular man about 6 inches taller than me.
“I’m, no, sir. Why?”
“I ain’t never seen anyone be that nice on the train in this town. Good for you.”
So that’s my one MBTA story.
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u/fuzedz 2d ago
Did he lick your ear after whispering
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u/Legitimate_Shower834 2d ago
Ah yes, the Boston hello
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u/WetGrundle 2d ago
Ey, I'm visiting Boston soon for the first time. Thanks for letting me know, I wouldn't want the locals to think I'm out of the loop.
I'm make sure to give people the Boston hello
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u/Hope4gorilla 1d ago
Don't forget the Boston Goodbye, where you gently (gently is key) tickle their butthole when you leave. You might be wondering what to do in the case of clothing that restricts access; just do what you can, it's the intent that counts :)
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u/Arippa 2d ago
I take the red line daily for my commute and I see it happen often. People do, in fact, gave up their seats on the T.
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u/cyvaquero 2d ago
I was going to say, while not say hi to the random stranger friendly, I have’t met anyone rude in Boston. In fact, everyone I talk to first has been very friendly on my several trips there.
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u/jvpewster 1d ago
Haven’t met anyone rude
Stop at the white line at a stop sign, and you’ll have some Kehd from Quinzy rip your ear off for break checking him.
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u/No1KnwsIWatchTeenMom 1d ago
My fave MBTA story was when my now husband and I were out for drinks and taking the T to get to the bar. Without getting into too much detail, we had been friends for like 7 or 8 years at that point, but he had moved to another part of the country so we barely saw each other for the past 5 years. We weren't exactly on a date, but he was in town because he was thinking about moving back. We were (obviously) sitting next to each other but at the moment weren't talking (nothing awkward, just comfortable silence while traveling).
Two drunk Southie dudes came into our car. One of them said something to me, I think he complemented me or something. He kept talking to me, and now husband jumped in to the conversation as well. His friend kept trying to pull him away and was like, "bro, they're on a date. Leave them alone, kid," and eventually drunk guy #1 was lile, "are you on a date??" And we were both like uuuhhhh ??? And he was like, "I just meeted them!" (meaning that he introduced us) and kept arguing with his buddy about how we clearly were strangers. He and I were laughing our asses off, and eventually we got to our stop so we stood up to get off and drunk guy #1 kept being like, "you guys are lucky I meeted you! Don't forget I meeted you!"
We talk all the time about how we're only married because a drunk dude from southie meeted us on the T.
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u/gregtron 2d ago
That's bullshit. The only thing good about the MBTA is how willing Bostonians are to be cool on the train.
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u/meeazzz 2d ago
Had a highly intoxicated and drug effected male on the train one day threatening everyone. Conductors lured him to the walkway between the carriages and locked the doors.
He was trying to smash the glass and break down the doors to get out so the conductors moved everyone away and stood between the customers and the doors.
He was still unhappily contained when we arrived at the next station for police to swarm his temporary holding cell between carriages.
Conductors and police got a standing ovation
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u/Cool-Elk-6136 2d ago
Don't fuck with the MBTA. One morning I was on the bus going to work, and this high school brat was sitting in the designated seat behind the driver. She was staring at her phone like she'd die if she looked up. An older lady got on and asked her to move. Princess ignored her, so the lady tapped her HARD on the head and said really loudly, "I NEED TO SIT DOWN SO YOU NEED TO MOVE." Princess looked all shocked to see another human being on the planet and moved to the back of the bus. I wanted to hug that lady so hard.
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u/Wild-Kitchen 2d ago
I had this happen to me but I was "the princess" in the seat. I have disabilities you cannot see but that make standing crippling. Old lady didn't appreciate when I said no, I'm disabled.
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u/IamKare 2d ago
This is my greatest struggle with having invisible disabilities, I've been yelled at, and called ungrateful. Like no, I cannot physically stand upright right now, I'm sitting in a reserved seat because I need to be. Its even harder because I'm a slim 23 year old with a naturally athletic build because I work very hard to stay active with what ability I do have.
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u/bingybunny 1d ago
I had back surgery. Nobody cares if they can't see something wrong with you.
I carried a cane so I could lean on it, and how people treated me changed instantly...people gave me sympathetic looks and women held doors for me, a man, no one asks you to hurry up.
If you have a pained expression on your face and no visible injuries, people treat you like you're insane.
Because people are stupid and visually oriented, a cane works wonders to help you get around.
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u/arbivark 1d ago
I don't need my cane to walk, but I keep it in the car because it's a very useful social signal. I'm not good at standing in long lines for a long time.
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u/Actiaeon 1d ago
Yeah, I have one to let others know, some days I can walk just fine, but if I stand too long I will be in excruciating pain, so I sometimes just have one to let others know silently what is my deal.
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u/Theystolemyname2 1d ago
I have had 40-something old ladies loudly talk among themselves about how trashy my generation is, after I didn't get up and give them my seat on a full bus... Lady, I have invisible disability. I can only stand for up to an hour, before my back starts hurting so much, I begin contemplating laying down on the ground. At that moment, I was well beyond that 1 hour, and I really needed the relief, that sitting down gave me. To hell with judgemental people.
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u/East_Refuse 2d ago
I make sure those people who rush the doors catch a few shoulders for not letting me get off before swarming the train
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u/auratus1028 2d ago
I have an invisible disability and I’m 25 years old. I fear that people see me in the reserved spot and think I don’t need it. I wish I could wear a placard around my neck sometimes. Please remember that next time you see young people in a reserved spot, they might be in pain, unable to balance themselves, or have any other host of issues.
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u/mintkismet 2d ago
Here in Japan, we have “help marks”, which are red tags you can put on your bag to indicate an invisible disability. People still actively ignore them a lot of times, but it helps me feel less guilty about taking a seat on a crowded train (I’m 34 and have inflammatory arthritis).
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u/icematt12 2d ago edited 1d ago
UK has these sunflower lanyards. National companies may have some in stores but I ordered online. I only use it for long distance public transport where it becomes an issue.
I'd like to imagine the US has a scheme for hidden disability but the policies regarding health and choices, in some states, don't inspire confidence.
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u/jittery_raccoon 1d ago
In the US, non disabled people would 100% just buy and use sunflower landyards. We have a lot of selfish assholes here
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u/littleb3anpole 1d ago
Yeah, I get this. I have osteoarthritis in my foot and 90% of the time it’s fine. That 10% though, I cannot put weight on my foot and it certainly can’t take my weight on a moving vehicle where there will be sharp turns/loss of balance, which tend to cause flare ups anyway.
I probably do look like a selfish asshole able bodied person in their mid 30s sitting down but sometimes I’m not all that able bodied.
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u/Talking_Head 2d ago
My wife, at a young age, had a debilitating nerve issue that caused her a lot of pain to be cramped into a single plane seat. And yes, it took us a little longer to board the plane, stow her bags (which I carried) and get her comfortable in, you know, the extra seat we bought for her. Gate agents never asked anything more than, “do you need extra time to board?”
All the vitriol came from passengers on Southwest who demanded to take one of her two seats. We literally paid for that extra seat asshole! We aren’t just holding it with her leg, so just accept my response and move along. Fucking three times it happened that someone wanted to verbally argue about the issue with me. Thankfully, SWA flight attendants are pretty cool and able to diffuse situations. No one should need to wear a tag.
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u/HobbitQueen8 2d ago
My god I love Bostonians
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u/Legitimate_Shower834 2d ago
We are hardy people who take no shit. My only complaint about Boston is that it isn't much of a night city
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I never had this kind of problem in my entire life. Usually when I ask someone if I can sit next to them,they just glance at me and say you know what, I think I'll stand (I am ugly).
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u/Nefnoj 2d ago
If you're ugly then why is your profile picture so sexy? I see lies ImRasta.
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u/Ok_Resource_7929 2d ago
It's not a fair game if you aren't able to use the cards you've been dealt. You have to use your natural abilities.
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u/Even-Excitement7610 2d ago
Should have sat down right beside them so theu get really uncomfortable and move on their own accord
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u/mochi_chan 2d ago
I would not have done that if I were a man (sounds like a recipe for having a scene made at you), but I am a woman and I have done that a few times.
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u/Kvpe 2d ago
GENDER EQUALITY RIGHT HERE YEAAAH BOIII
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u/Spooky_Shark101 2d ago
LPT for the fellas: If you're walking down the street and a woman approaches from the opposite direction, exclaim as loud as you can "DON'T WORRY I AM NOT GOING TO RAPE YOU" then lie down face first until she leaves the area.
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u/Gangreless 1d ago edited 1d ago
I honestly feel bad for big guys because of this. I'm a woman and have definitely crossed the street and taken a different elevator when I'm aloneat night and there's a bigger guy also alone. Do I think every guy is a rapist? No, of course not, but it's like a weird lizard brain thing that just makes me nervous. Like, on the very remote chance that this one guy is going to try something, I know I'd have very little defense so why chance it
My husband is big and tall and he's had experience with this, as well. There was a couple women where he used to work that would get startled if he came around the corner just because he was such a presence. He also told me he used to lower the volume of his voice around women so he was less intimidating. Sucks to have to go through life worrying that you're making people feel scared :/
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u/Bmwilli2 1d ago
As a big guy myself, please keep doing this. Ive met too many bad people, its smart to avoid being around large men in the dark. Its not mean, stupid, or rude. You are being cautious and smart, and I wish my tiny wife would do the same.
Id rather be shunned by women 1000 times than my wife or little girl find that one bad apple in the bunch.
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u/OuchPotato64 1d ago
Im a guy and do the same thing. You dont need to feel guilty about trying to be safe. You're being careful on the off chance that you come across someone that is dangerous, because they do exist. When its dark and there arent any witnesses around, my lizard brain makes me scared of any person I come across.
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u/Bigtiny87 2d ago edited 2d ago
I’d sit down anyway.
Edit: “excuse me” as my right side touches the chair. No permission requested or required.
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u/jwill602 2d ago
Seriously… right when she said “no,” I would’ve been like “okay!” And sat on the edge, right up against her.
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u/Pitiful-Stop-4932 2d ago
Edge? I would start on the edge and just push her to middle seat 😂
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u/AleksasKoval 2d ago edited 1d ago •
And whisper in her ear:
"Care for a round of Gwent?"
Edit: See? Even in a mildly infuriating situation, you can always have a good laugh.
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u/delicate-butterfly 2d ago
I’m playing Witcher for the first time! I’m in novigrad
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u/j4nv4nromp4ey 2d ago
It's a fun game. Got a good 100hrs out of it. Worth it's price and has it's flaws.
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u/Ninjaflippin 2d ago
not only is it such a long game, Blood and wine is large enough to be considered a full sequel. After spending so long in the misery addled cesspool that is velen/novigrad, having such a large dlc set in literal paradise is my favorite thing ever
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u/xl129 2d ago
What with the random Witcher reference in an unrelated sub! Now I feel comrades are all around.
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u/milkandcookies222 2d ago
One time I did that and the woman literally pushed me off the seat. I’m pretty sure she was high tho.
Another time my sisters 15 yo friend was in a boot (she had just had knee surgery) and asked someone if she could sit down and they said no. She was literally on crutches and had to stand. Some people are just not very nice.
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u/-ANGRYjigglypuff 1d ago
And there I was, a foreigner in Japan, standing up every 10 minutes looking like a dork on the bus to Kyoto offering my seat to elderly people that shuffled on. They all declined politely, and I'm just envious how fit they were. Those were some long bus rides.
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u/pipnina 1d ago
I think in a lot of Asian cultures, as well as some middle eastern cultures, you are supposed to offer. They are supposed to decline.
Then you offer again and they will decline again.
Then you offer again and at this point they MAY feel it is socially acceptable to accept your offer. Else you insist again that they take the seat or let you pay for the coffee or whatever it is you're giving them.
Apparently Vietnamese and Korean (I think) families go to war over who is paying for the meal. But they are fighting TO pay, not to avoid paying!
The elderly people may have just been following general polite procedure for Japan, although I don't know if Japan subscribes to that culture or not.
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u/Dikkelul27 2d ago
I'm so used to teens putting their bag next to them and pretending they're asleep that i don't even ask anymore. The train is full every morning yet half the train has bags on the seats, I just put the bag on the floor and sit next to them.
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u/LoideJante 2d ago
Last time I did that, the teenager stuck his chewing gum on my jacket when I wasn't looking.
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u/SpecialistRadish1682 2d ago
I did that once, on someone’s bag and they were too stunned to try and move it lol
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u/ponte92 1d ago
I did it once too (same city as this photo is taken too) I’m disabled and a women wouldn’t move her bag off the seat for me on a full tram. So I sat on her bag but then it became a battle of the stubborn because she wouldn’t move her bag and I wouldn’t move. So I sat on her bag for 15 minutes before she had to get off. Really wished I had a fart or two stored but alas I didn’t!
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u/MyAviato666 1d ago
Should have just put her bag on the other side of you and if she said something say "your crap was on my seat". You can also say "someone's crap is on my seat" while moving it further away from the owner.
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u/ricflairwoooo420 2d ago
Did this on a subway in new york coming back from a yankee game and the girl proceeds to stand up on the chair and kick me in the face and throw bleach she kept in a waterbottle at us
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u/Bigtiny87 2d ago
NY and Chitown are my exemptions.
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u/ricflairwoooo420 2d ago
Yea it was terrible i had a broken leg too so i was pretty useless things eventually escalated and she called a bunch of people to meet us at the next stop and i ended up getting slashed with a knife
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u/reallyouchea 2d ago
Carry on
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u/ricflairwoooo420 2d ago
Of course the stop where it all happened was Harlem and we ended up going to the hospital there and it was scary aff people looked like they were dying in the hallways it couldnt of been a worse night for a great day
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u/DryApplejohn 2d ago
What happened next?
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u/ricflairwoooo420 2d ago
We gave our statement to the police and they saw them on video and nothing happened after that unfortunately
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u/moistpup 2d ago edited 2d ago
And then the girls entire family showed up, turns out they were related to Kim Jong-un, and each one had a nuclear weapon. That they used on me. I now post to Reddit as radioactive dust.
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u/potterhead1d 2d ago
This happened to me recently. I sat at a priority seat and got up to give it to one who needs it, but the other guy wouldn't move, even when I told him/tried to get his attention and another passenger just sighed and rolled her eyes. It was embarrassing that he didn't move, and because he didn't move, it didn't help that I moved because she needed to put her walker where the other guy stood.
People need to learn how priority seats work.
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u/IHaveHivesWithBees 2d ago
I remember when I was 20 something and I was on my first trip to Sydney (largest city in my country), and caught the metro train during peak rush, and someone who had a broken leg with crutches got on the train, and I gave up my seat for them. He was genuinely grateful but I could see in his eye he was trying to think what my angle was, like I was going to kick and rob him once he sat down or something...... Where I came from (much smaller transport system mainly buses) it was ingrained in us when we are young that its the right thing to do.
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u/andreasbeer1981 2d ago
Taking busses in Lisbon was a new experience. All the people skip the free seats in the front half of the bus and voluntarily go to the back of the bus, so that when the old people come in they get free seats. Even if the bus is completely empty they do that.
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u/IHaveHivesWithBees 2d ago
Wow, it shows it can done, that it is just about conditioning and expectation.
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u/LankyAd9481 2d ago
Yeah it's weird here (also sydney) I've seen people legit ignore a blind person (with just the stick) walking right towards the gap between train carriages.....because you know if the blind person mistakes that for the door opening and falls on the track like your day wasn't going to be fucked more than the very ardous task of telling the person that's not the door....
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u/LittleJimmyR f1 2d ago
Now Melbourne's extended their city boundary just to say "haha we bigger than sydney LOLLLL"
This is also in melbourne
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u/IHaveHivesWithBees 2d ago
It is insane, as a kid we used to goto Philip Island every year (via Ballarat), and I used to remember how eerie Bacchus Marsh was driving through bushland at night. It be all burbs now.
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u/AstronautDecent4503 2d ago
I'm genuinely curious about why she does this. I would ask her why she insists on taking two seats when there's no empty seats around and someone else needs that seat
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u/Subvert_A_Paradigm 2d ago
I gotta be honest, I’m not curious at all. People have alllll different reasons for things like this, and it doesn’t make them right. She can take up the whole damn couch at her therapist’s office. I’m just trying to get to where I’m going.
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u/KBolt99 2d ago
Yeah i found that crazy incoherent behaviors usually have crazy incoherent reasoning behind them.
Its not like she has any real logical reasoning for blocking multiple seats that would make sense to any rational person, its just incredibly dumb selfish behavior with little to no thought behind it. These people who do dumb shit like this aren’t interesting, they’re some of the most unintelligent and boring people in our society.
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u/himmelundhoelle 2d ago
when there's no empty seats around
as someone else noted, the seat in front is not taken
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u/exec_liberty 1d ago
And behind as well
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u/jotarowinkey 1d ago
right so whatever her weird reason is id rather just take an empty seat than debate with her and give her the benefit of the doubt she has some weird anxiety about contact than force take her picture without her consent.
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u/amwestover 2d ago
Easy solution: sit down anyway. I’m also a big guy so, I’ll say it’s easy for me. But before I stopped taking the train I never let this shit stop me.
They move. Sometimes complain, and that’s what headphones are for.
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u/capt_scrummy 2d ago
Same 🍻
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u/amwestover 2d ago
Damn straight.
I’m not talking about this “sit on the edge” ish some people are saying. Someone obnoxious enough to take up two seats doesn’t have shame.
That’s an open seat, sit on the seat.
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u/capt_scrummy 2d ago
I did this plenty of times living in Boston and SF. They'd usually get huffy and then blurt out that I was an asshole, ironically, and then get up... And I'd get up to give the seats to someone else.
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u/amwestover 1d ago
LOL I did the same too, cuz half the time these arrogant pricks take up seats reserved for elderly or handicapped near the doors.
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u/FinancialArmadillo93 2d ago edited 1d ago
I was recently on a light rail train and a teen girl sat in the disabled section taking up all three sets. The train was full. An older woman with a walker and an oxygen backpack got on and motioned for the seat. The teen pretended to not notice her. It was a super awkward moment.
My husband said, "you're in a designated disability space, this woman needs your seat" to the girl. She ignored him and kept staring at her phone.
Then, he leaned down into her face and said very loudly, "I guess you didn't hear, but she needs to use the seating legally provided for her." She didn't move.
He grabbed her shopping bags - on either side of her - and said "What is wrong with you? Get your entitled, selfish ass out of that seat!" And everyone near us stood up and stared at her. She got up in a huff and was all pissed off and moved out of the seat and moved to stand near the end of the car.
It was SO out of character for my husband, but I have to admit, I was proud of him. I am tired of this selfish behavior.
EDIT: For those of you who thought perhaps she was deaf or otherwise disabled, we knew she was not. She had been at the same train platform waiting with us. Here is context.
She was on her phone loudly complaining about her mom not leaving work to pick her up (during rush hour) and was making her take "the fucking train" and was upset her mom wouldn't let her buy a purse that "was only $400."
While she was walking around talking, she took her gum out of her mouth and stuck it on the locater map on the wall. This happened in Seattle, and yes, there's a "gum wall" at Pike Place Market, but who does that? Total spoiled brat move.
She had five shopping bags, including two big ones from Nordstrom. When the train arrived, she rushed the doors forcing her way in while people were trying to exit and hitting them with her bags. The older woman (70s) was also on the platform, and my husband helped her onto the train. When we got on, the girl and her bags were taking up all three priority seats.
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u/blissfullytaken 2d ago
When I was post surgery and had to take public transit, and people put bags on the priority seats I did one of two things. I sometimes just sit on those bags and when they react I say “oops, sorry, didn’t see them there” or sometimes I just stand in front of them and groan in pain as loud as I can and feign being sick. To be fair I was in pain, so it wasn’t that hard.
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u/timespassing_ 2d ago
It’s remarkable how fast a person actually notices you and moves their stuff when your ass is about to smash their stuff. I rode the bus for years and one guy carried bags of recyclables around and always took an extra seat with them. I started seeking him out to wearily plop down next to him regardless of if he moved his trash or not. He got conditioned to move his bags… but also was eventually banned from the bus system for reasons unknown.
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u/Winston1NoChill 2d ago
A guy carrying bags of recyclables?
You seek out the homeless guy to sit on his trash?
This might be weird the other way bro
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u/DavidThorne31 2d ago
“My cans! My precious antique cans! Look what you’ve done to ‘em!”
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u/SGexpat 1d ago
Some states have recyclable deposits so a can can net you 5 cents. Bringing a bag with you on a trip from a non deposit state could probably get you a free meal.
It not that hard but illegal.
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u/james9075 2d ago
I thought we were about to find out the girl was deaf lmfao
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u/AbsolXGuardian 1d ago
There are assholes sitting in priority seats as well as people who aren't visibly disabled. It can be hard to know how to approach it. Part of what's nice about having a cane as an otherwise invisibly disabled person is that it gets rid of the ambiguity.
(Although the busses in my town are so little used I've never seen the priority seats all filed up. Everyone gets to use two seats)
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u/Afraid_of_Okapi 2d ago
The first time I ever yelled at a stranger, it was over this. A bicyclist in full gear was sitting in one of the spots and didn’t get up for two different people with visible need for the spot who were trying to get his attention while he pretended not to notice and kept his headphones on. I popped one out for him and told him others needed the seat. He yelled at me that he offered it to a guy in a wheelchair (I’ve always wondered about this because there’s an open spot in the same section for chair users… who are already sitting in seats obviously… so I think he just lied) before I got on. I informed him you didn’t just get to allow one person the ability to take the spot then ignore anyone else who needs it. He started whining about “your generation has no maaaaaaanners!” because that’s all embarrassed boomers can do.
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u/rikeoliveira 2d ago
The amount of people in this thread that can fart on command is astonishing.
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u/brownchicken 2d ago
i don't want you to think i can't fart on command, but personally i'd take the fart app approach here
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u/jasno- 1d ago
I see enough room to sit on the end of that seat. That's how petty I am.
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u/Careless_Set_2512 2d ago
Good on you though mate, you’ve done way more than the majority of people in this sub by just asking.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Part733 2d ago
Why not just sit in the empty seat directly opposite her?
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u/mr_grapes 2d ago
Glad I’m not the only one who spotted that. Guess OP would rather have internet clout than a seat 🤷♂️
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u/Historical_Ad8780 2d ago
My husband told me a story about a feisty old lady who would bonk a kid on the head with her cane every time she asked him to move and he ignored her. Took quite a few lumps on the head before the dumbass finally got up!
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u/BonelessChicknStrips
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So you stand right in front of her and take a picture to post online? lol
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u/seapunkcat 1d ago
I don’t know if I even believe the title happened because the train doesn’t actually look full. The seat in front of her is empty and the seat behind her is also empty. The way people are standing also makes it seem like it wasn’t too full.
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u/Nommy86 2d ago
Melbourne, Australia?