New York Minute 37 - Subway Dick

The subway is crowded, but you've managed to snag that premium standing spot right by the door. The bars for gripping with your hands are within easy reach, and if you don't want to hold on, you can lean against the door (not recommended for safety reasons) or against the door frame (better).

The train pulls into a station and the door opens. You politely step out onto the platform to let departing passengers exit the car with a minimum of congestion.

And what happens next? Some self-serving dick who definitely saw you standing in that spot moves over and takes the spot for themselves!

Not only is this flagrantly rude - because now you have lost your premium spot - but it negates your entire gesture of politeness. The boarding and detraining passengers have to push past this selfish jag-off, because he's blocking the damned door.

To get back in the car, you have to wedge past him. You give him a look like, "what the flip, dude?" But of course he refuses to make eye contact.

People just aren't raised right anymore.

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