My morning METRO rant for the day….

Some “observations” that I’ve made since I moved here in 2001….

1. If you see that someone is “a little larger, when sitting, than 1 metro seat” (i.e., I am not the smallest person, but I’m not the largest, but 2 of ME can’t share a METRO 2-seat row!) and you, too, are that size or bigger, WE CAN’T SHARE A SEAT!!! WHY, WHY, WHY do people do this to me when there are empty seats, ALL AROUND!!??

2. If I am reading something and are writing while reading and am NOT looking up (i.e., studying, reading a small paper making notations, reading WORK-RELATED items, etc.), GET FROM OVER MY SHOULDER!! If I don’t make eye contact with you while you are reading over my arm, shoulder, in a PLEASANT way, um, BOUNCE from my reading!!!

3. I understand that we’d all like to drown out the sounds of others and the METRO announcers, but other riders on the car REALLY don’t want to hear YOUR music. If you choose to go deaf, that is on you, but not at everyone else’s expense!!! We REALLY don’t want to hear your music as if it were coming through the announcement speakers!! I should not be able to hear EVERY WORD and note of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Biggie, Garth Brooks, etc., when you have on EAR PODS/Headphones!!!!

4. You see other people have to get on the train and we all know that you are only riding for one stop, but MOVE YOUR TAILFEATHER TO THE MIDDLE AND LET OTHERS IN!! Dang it!! How hard could that be!! SIDE NOTE: METRO doors aren’t like the MARTA in Atlanta or the trains that are in Atlanta’s Airport…..THESE BOYS DO NOT REOPEN or BOUNCE BACK if they hit you!! GET ON THE DANG TRAIN!!! Oh, but see, those STANDING IN THE DOORWAY could facilitate that if they’d MOVE to the middle of the train when coming to a PACKED stop!!!

5. If you are standing in front of people and you feel as if you aren’t on the floor anymore and you feel something under your foot, THAT IS MY TOE or SOMEONE else’s!! DANG!! I had a lady who KEPT stepping on my toe, back and forth, and I finally said, “How many times are you going to step on my toe and not say excuse me or move over???” Geez………

6. If you and ALL of your 9 friends ride the train together, could you NOT carry on conversations over 5 rows???!!! COME ooooooooooooooooon!!! Again, there are just some things that we REALLY don’t want to hear……

7. No, it isn’t written, but STAND to the right and walk/run on the left, when it comes to the escalators!! You have received fair warning. Don’t act all new when someone tells you to MOVE when you are standing on the left…..

8. Oh, and the end of the line…….ya’ll……if you see someone sleep who isn’t moving off the train, tap them on the shoulder or something! Leaving them on the train is just a FOUL MOVE!! LOL….come on. We are all tired and are allowed to fall asleep on the train, but LEAVING SOMEONE ON THE TRAIN that is still sleep at the end of the line is just wrong!

That is my morning rant for METRO riders in the Washington, DC METRO area for the morning…. CHAO!!!