Eating on NYC public transportation — Page 2

Having ridden the subways for over 30 years, I have never ever seen anyone stop anyone else for breaking the law. This includes eating, taking up seats with bags, SMOKING, feet up on poles, laying down, or anything you can think of. NEVER

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I don't have much cause to ride public transportion since I left Chicago, but people eating was always the least of my pet peeves. Hearing someone's music from their headphones (especially while I was also listening to headphones) was probably my number one.

Only people that know Liza's Headband get caught.

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"Don't know what to tell you, Jane."

You don't have to tell me anything. We've had different experiences.

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"I do my own enforcing of that rule."

Me too - if I'm about to sit down next to someone who's bag is in the seat, and they make no effort to move it, I sit down anyway.

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"You'll rarely see anyone 'making a public spectacle of themselves" eating in a sloppy or disorderly way on the tidy town square in the picturesque northwestern CT hamlet where I go to escape the noise and dirt of the City."

That's nice for you. Many people who work more than one job making minimum wage with no paid time off or sick days don't have those kind of options. I work with several clients who go straight from one job to another. If they're late they get docked. They eat when they can.

After Eight, my heart bleed for you,
But folk can’t just surrender to their fears.

I know it hurt to change.
It actually hurts, learning something new.

And when you full-grown, it’s harder, that’s true
It feel like you got to break yourself apart,
It feel like you got to break your own heart,

But folk do it. They do.

Every day, all the time,
Alone, afraid,
Folks like you.

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"Me too - if I'm about to sit down next to someone who's bag is in the seat, and they make no effort to move it, I sit down anyway."

Good for you.

Than there's a similar problem encountered ever more frequently nowadays on buses: People sitting in the aisle seat and refusing to move in to the empty window seat, thereby preventing others from sitting beside them. There are times when I'll enter a bus and see all the aisle seats taken with every window seat empty. And often they will place their bags on the window seat to further assure that that place will remain unoccupied.

And the scowls, annoyance and anger on their faces when I request to sit in the empty seat, as they begrudgingly displace themselves and their packages to let me in! (Of course it never dawns on them that they could more easily just slide across to the window seat themselves.) No matter, I still thank them profusely, which makes them even angrier!

^

Why should you go to the trouble of climbing over them?

Let them do the work.

I think the subway breakdancers are more of an affront.

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Here's a clever little trick I noticed. I take the NJ Transit train to and from the Jersey Shore on weekends. Here's what people do to prevent anyone from sitting next to them.

They occupy the aisle seat, and pretend to be sleeping. They assume this position just before the train pulls into a station. This way, they think no one will wake them up to move, or to crawl over them to get to the window seat. Then, when the train moves out of that station, and everyone is seated, they "wake up" and slide over to the window seat until the next stop.

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I work for a major firm in a major building...Lots of busy people...

That said...

WHY must you eat in an elevator? I don't just mean a few nibbles of a potato chip....I mean EAT! Soup! Stew!Burgers!..

All on the elevator...

it's so gross...

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I think the only time I ate on the subway was when there used to be those freshly made hot pretzel vendors on certain subway platforms…Them were the days!

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