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  This also works with elevators when everyone seems to be going in one direction.  Going the opposite way ends up with you going the correct way.
context: In boston on the orange line, people would get on the virtually empty outbound trains in the morning, ride to stops further from the city, and switch to an inbound train.
  Probably other lines as well. >
  
  It is quite common to do this on BART (in the Bay Area) during commute time. Although, there is rarely an issue with the trains being actually full. People do it so they can get a seat instead of standing. >
  
  Another common BART rider trick is smoking fentanyl in the bathroom until you overdose and pass out so nobody else can use the bathroom til you (hopefully) wake up. That and pissing and jacking off on the train. But I mean obviously these aren’t selfish like the woman in the article though. >
  
  Man, what the fuck is up with the public transport in the US? I've used it all over Europe and the weirdest I encounter is just obnoxious people. And that one time the guy pissed himself in the back >
  
  Lack of social safety nets and shit healthcare system exacerbate homelessness and the raging drug epidemic. >
  
  You missed sky rocketing housing costs. >
  
  Have you guys actually ridden public transit before? It's not normally like this at all. >
  
  The last two cities I've lived in I've relied on their public transit systems (Boston and New York for full disclosure) and yes I regularly see homeless and drug addled folks on my daily commute in each. It's not like, a lawless hellscsape where everything is on fire but some days it felt pretty close, especially on routes near any hospitals or public health services.
  And granted some days the Boston T lines literally were on fire but anyways..
  Before THAT, I lived in San Diego and it wasn't even a question of riding public transit, homelessness was everywhere. Not as bad as San Francisco but the point stands - it's an epidemic. >
  
  Dude comm ave was always a nightmare near the methadone clinic! >
  
  I used to do the same. My commuter bus was very crowded at my stop, the last stop,  and would have 20+ people waiting.  So I’d walk up a few blocks to prior stops to get on, where the line was shorter. If the closest stop had a long line, I’d walk up one more. >
  
  “The line at McDonalds was long, so I went to a different McDonalds”
  “How fucking dare you?” >
  
  More like "The line was long at the McDonald's drive-thru so I went inside to order." >
  
  this always amazes me. the drive thru line will be MASSIVE and then inside there will be nobody. it really speaks to the laziness of people >
  
  Except that 9 times out of 10 it is still faster to go through the drive-thru.  There will be 4-5 employees working the drive-thru, and when you walk inside, you have to wait for an employee to come to the cash and take your order.  
  I've often been left wondering... since when did actually going inside an establishment make you an after thought or second class customer.  Almost every place that has a drive-thru makes the drive-thru a priority over people inside the restaurant.
  Rant over! >
  
  Corporate.
  They have time goals for drive thrus, usually only a couple minutes at most. The staff catches shit if the times are too high so they dogpile the drive thru with 4-5 people so they can keep everything moving and hit their times.
  People coming inside are not only not timed, but expected to sit around for a while at their table anyway. >
  
  1) why did anyone write an article about this 
  2) lady was just smarter than them and they mad, who cares >
  
  It’s Somerset, they rarely have anything interesting to report on. >
  
  "No luck catching them swans then?" >
  
  It's just the one swan actually >
  
  I wanna do what you do. >
  
  I do hereby give you permission to quote "Hot Fuzz" in all venues throughout the universe >
  
  I did.  "I wanna do what you do"  "you do do what I do!"
  I guess most of yall only know 2 or 3 quotes >
  
  The greater gooooooood >
  
  I moved to the end of the subway line in Singapore. I thought I would always be guaranteed a seat on the early morning train. Instead it was always full when I got on. People on the stop before the end would fill up the train, ride to the end, then back into town. I couldn't really get mad at them though. >
  
  Bizarre.. Never seen that in London >
  
  Hold the front page! Woman walks to bus stop with stroller! Gosh, life is exciting in Somerset. >
  
  “May you live in interesting times” is one of the great curses.
  I pray to live the rest of my life in a place as exciting as Somerset apparently. >
  
  I’m fond of “may each day be the best day of the rest of your life” >
  
  Can you ELI5 why that’s a curse? It sounds like each day would be better than the last. >
  
  Each day is the best day of the rest of your life would mean that every day is progressively worse than the one before it. >
  
  That’s just dark as shit.
  Wow. Thanks. >
  
  r/slownewsday >
  
  The transit stop next to my office always has a long line.  So much so that often one would have to wait thru two or three busses before getting on, and even then you would be likely have to stand in the isle.
  I noticed that there was an earlier stop about three blocks away.  At that stop the bus was nearly empty.   So my choices... one block walk and 30 to 40 minute wait to board a standing room only bus, or walk three blocks and have my choice of seats in an almost empty bus.
  You know which one I took! >
  
  Lol. People will say anything when they lose the brain battle >
  
  Would it change anyone's mind here if the other two women noticed? And there was time to jump multiple stops back? Like at no point would someone be a dick? Like it would be really annoying to get to a stop first have someone move a block up to prevent me from getting on. I respond by 2 moving two blocks up, then they move 3? I really do not see a problem with this, but in kind of changed my my mind reading her quotes, which made it sound she was fully aware one of the women would not be able to get on at all now.
  I'm having trouble of thinking of examples, but I do feel like this is akin to a lot of examples where people are abiding by some etiquette and others think they out smarted the system, but in reality you are aware of what they are doing, and if you respond in kind the whole system breaks down. It just becomes a race to the last stop for the bus, that everyone is dragged into >
  
  I dont blame her at all. If this stop is that busy thats a fault of the system not the rider. The system should have more buses at that time if this is a common occurrence. >
  
  I mean both can be true. Also I generally agree systems are more often than not inadequate, but that isn't necessarily the case here. If that scenario comes up less than once a week, it's not practical to run 50 extra busses a day. 
  I also dispute that is is a function of out smarting them. They arrived at an empty stop. If everyone used this logic the system would be the last to arrive gets on the bus, unless someone has impaired mobility >
  
  But I'm also not sold I'm correct because on a larger routine scale I have no problem with someone planning ahead to go to a further typically empty stop >
  
  Wow...
  I'm at a loss for words..  More so that the police had to be called..  Damn.
  
  and one mum even "tried to shove [her] off the bus".
  
  Not allowed on the bus with your buggy, so you leave your child on the sidewalk to get on the bus to try and shove someone else off?  Because she wasn't lazy and outsmarted you.. >
  
  The lady is assaulting a mum with a baby, while she has a baby. Pretty crazy. >
  
  Stupid and entitled people see any act of common sense as cheating if they don't think of it first. >
  
  I’ve done this myself in the past, they’re just angry they didn’t think of it first. >
  
  Honestly we need to come up with a word for this, it's a very specific anger but everyone knows it. >
  
  Reality Check (2 words). They've been living in a fantasy of their own creation, but then reality kicks them in the face and they don't like it. >
  
  Deja fu. The feeling you've been kicked in the head like this before. >
  
  Time as a weapon?  Lu Tze was the only master of that art.  Rule #1:  Never underestimate a little bald smiling man. >
  
  I had a woman tell me I was cheating by walking 4 blocks and two stops so I could get a seat in the morning. >
  
  The real drama begins when a wheelchair user, who has absolute priority in that space on the bus, wants to get on and prams are to be folded to make space for them. >
  
  That’s actually not how it works, well not in Canada at least. Here whoever is there first has the right to stay there no matter how able bodied they are. If they refuse to move when asked even if the bus is empty they tell the wheelchair that “sorry but you have to wait”.
  This is because everyone is considered equal here and so you don’t get special treatment.
  Source: am a bus driver
  Edit: I’d like to point out that I’ve never actually seen that happen because it’s a massive dick move and people on the bus would be pissed at you, just pointing out that wheelchair users and strollers don’t automatically have ‘absolute’ priority there. It’s called the courtesy section. >
  
  This was in the UK. Buses from round here (at least in London) tell buggies to collapse to make space for wheelchair users. They get priority here. >
  
  It is funny eh, I would be interested ins debate on who ethically has the most right to the seat when the bus is full. Not saying either is right just that it would be an interesting debate as each party has their own merits there. >
  
  Woman uses public transportation efficiently. Chaos ensues. And this isn’t the US? >
  
  Obviously not, as there was public transportation. >
  
  Busses running every half hour?  Sounds like the U.S. >
  
  Half hour? Where do you live that you’re so blessed?? Usually more like 45mins-an hour where I am between busses, if that often, it may be longer >
  
  Y'all have busses? >
  
  Ah yes, Mumsnet, truly an Oracle of wisdom for our times >
  
  When I was a student I used to do this all the time. I left my house about 5 to 10mins early and turned Right. My bus traveled from Right to Left. I just kept walking past stops and people until I matched the arrival time. Normally would have 1 or 2 waiting each stop and would make up to 5 stops earlier. >
  
  The woman did nothing wrong. Trying to get on a tram with a pushchair is an absolute nightmare. I've often had to get the tram on the opposite side of the road to travel to the terminus to begin the journey home. >
  
  She had the idea, and she put in the work. >
  
  I would take the subway into Manhattan from Brooklyn, to avoid the rush of people getting on at my stop and the stop right before it. 
  If you didn’t do this, you would never get home during rush hour. >
  
  Wow, slow news day. >
  
  She's a smart lady. >
  
  Just brought back a memory of the before times. Used to do this in Sydney - one bus stop was hella crowded for some reason, and I’d go just one stop beforehand (like 1-2 blocks away) and always get a seat. This was commuter bus that took 45 mins to get from suburbs to the city, so it kind of mattered. >
  
  This story reminds me of a time I got cussed out by a Karen at a gas pump.
  Someone was sitting in their car 20 ft back from the pumps.  Someone pulled away from the nearest right side pump.  The father right side pump was still occupied.  I waited, and waited, and they didn't move, so I pulled around them and started using the empty pump.
  She gets out and starts yelling that I jumped the line.  She wanted BOTH pumps to be open.  Even though there was more than enough room to pull around to the far pump.
  If I recall I just laughed at her without saying a word