The Ten Worst People on the Subway

They forgot to mention the men who feel the need to sit with their legs so wide open that nobody can sit next to them. I get that you have balls and need them to breathe, but close your f*cking legs so that somebody can sit next to you!

6 drives me nuts.

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bwayluvsong-I agree. Last year, I was injured and in a cast (it was a hard walking one, but a cast). I tried to jockey my way in between two men who had their legs fully spread and was forced to stand (now, never mind neither guy offered me the seat).

I truly also despise people who take up more than their fair share of the seats on a crowded train. Your bags are not entitled to space that I could be sitting in! (When the train isn't crowded, I don't care-but during rush hour, you bet!)

I hate these young women who plop down on one seat, place their bag on another seat, sit on slant with their legs crossed, and place their coffee behind them on another seat. I watch people get on and no one says anything to these bitches.

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I hate when people block the doors of people exiting. I always stand to the side or a few feet away from the door to see if anyone is exiting first, but I always have those other people who burst right through without looking.

Ditto on the bags on seats. I had an experience once on the PATH train where it had rained a lot and the seats on 1 side of the car had small puddles of water in them, so everyone was sitting on the other side of a pretty empty car. I almost sat down in one of the wet seats and some guy warned me of that. Of course he and other people had bags on the empty seats next to them and never offered to let me sit there, knowing the other side was wet.

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The author of this list didn't even try.

#1 - stop being a wussy, say "excuse me" and sit your lazy ass down

#5 - people do this because of #3

#6 - no everyone is not getting off and that's why people choose to stand by the door


I would add the people who can't control their body weight. Your sitting in a crowded seat, the train is coming into the station and the fat ass next to you allows 100 pounds of their body weight to lean against you. Just because the train is going in a certain direction doesn't mean you have to allow your body to go in that direction.

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Oh, here's another one that I hate. There is clearly not enough room between you and the next person for anyone to sit. Yet someone (it's usually the same exact type) squeezes themself in anyway, You are now being so intimate with a stranger that you feel every breath they take. I usually just get up and stand when this happens.

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One of the commenters went ballistic over someone eating spaghettios cold, from the can.

How else do you eat them?

I initially thought this was a Gawker piece a couple years ago called 10 Subway Horror Stories that still haunts me to this very day.

Loud talkers bother me quite a bit. I appreciate when train cars have a near library atmosphere of low speaking voices and limited eye-contact with anyone else. If we are in a crowded car and practically sardines, strangers don't want to hear your drama.

#8. I try to be kind and polite everywhere I go. I really do. But when someone pulls #8, I lose it. I have a wide, colorful vocabulary and those #8s walk away learning a lesson about subway etiquette and rhetoric.

I despise people who feel the need to bathe in cologne.

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...the men who feel the need to sit with their legs so wide open that nobody can sit next to them. I get that you have balls and need them to breathe, but close your f*cking legs so that somebody can sit next to you!

^^ This would be me!