Why, oh why...

[quislibet]

... would you think, especially when there's a whole open platform in front of you, that it was a good idea to stop dead on the top stair during morning commuter rush hour in order to look at your map of the subway?

Comments

[alonewiththemoon]

because you have a secret insidious plot to make people just miss their train, and because you take great delight in causing annoyance to others.

That's the theory I've come up with, anyway.

[silas7.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you should help the offender back down the stairs, with a rapid tug on his suitcoat. As he lies in a heap at the bottom of the stairs, he would have ample time to examine his map.

People who get off the T, walk three feet, and then look around at signs also fall into that category.

I think they deserve a level of Hell. The 3rd or 4th I think.

[julishka.livejournal.com]

these people are even worse when they stop at the top of the escalator.

i did just have a run-in with one of their driving counterparts. this woman decides it would be a good idea to make a u-turn on broad street at the point where an incoming side street intersects. so essentially she practically drove into me head on. she was hoping to make a parking space she just missed. instead she got irate looks from me, and in the process a parking space opened up right in front of her _had_ she continued in the proper direction in the first place. since she didn't, i got the spot (which so happened to be RIGHT OUTSIDE MY OFFICE'S FRONT DOOR! rock on karma.)

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Belated reply: Your tale of cosmic justice makes me weep with joy.

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

I've taken to screaming in fright when someone does this, followed by a breathless "JEE-zuss, HOW could you DO that!"

What the hell, I'll never see them again.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

That's not a bad plan at all (he says days later).

[damiel.livejournal.com]

Everytime someone stops dead at the top of the escalators, I really wish they would... stop dead at the top of the escalators.

[christianb.livejournal.com]

I bet that person later got on an elevator...and took it to the second floor.