This guy is a jerk. Why is he a jerk? I will tell you.
This picture was taken during my commute home, on the Canada Line, around 4:40 p.m.
Transit Jerk Explained
- He’s sitting on the outside seat, making it more difficult for other people to get by to the empty window seat next to him
- He has his legs crossed, which makes it even more difficult and sends the implicit message, “Go away, don’t even try.”
- He is doing this during rush hour when the train is inevitably going to be crowded.
- He has his bag in the “Keep Area Clear” space at the front of the car. Stuff left here can go flying if the train makes an emergency stop.
- His water bottle is on the verge of popping out of his bag and rolling onto the floor.
- Bonus: He’s wearing a vest.
Today on the commute home four of the seats up front were occupied by people’s baggage (said people obviously riding in from the airport). Question: What is more deserving of a seat: your baggage or another human being? Answer: You know the answer, jerk. Move your damn luggage.
This concludes my yearly transit rant. Since switching almost exclusively to riding the SkyTrain rather than the bus, I find most of my complaints are of a mechanical nature–that is, taking issue with problems besetting the system such as stuck cars, failed switches, etc. In the olden days of bus riding my complaints were almost exclusively about the people on the bus rather than the bus itself. So in that sense, my complaints now are a lot milder.
But still, the jerks are still out there, with their fancy bags and crossed legs and, “Oh, you want to sit here? I had no idea other people rode the train!”
