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Backpack awareness
As a backpack user since way back in the day, I must say that photos like this one help to provide me with greater backpack awareness. Backpacks are really, really handy, and (at least if your back is okay) a much more convenient way of carrying heavy books and papers. But they can be a giant PITA for those who must navigate around them.
Really?! This is what annoys you on the T
How about just asking the dude to move instead of making a big production about it and calling him out in a public forum? Yes, riding in the T is annoying, but jeez..the guy is using a backpack. He's not public enemy number one. I'm sure he didn't wake up and say, "I'm going to get on the T with my backpack and piss people off today." I think it's safe to say that he just needed something to carry his stuff in and was unaware he was temporarily blocking your seat. In that case a simple "excuse me." would have saved you a lot of outrage.
Another twisting of words...
...from an anon (not verified). Oy.
It's not about "outrage" or "public enemy number one." Just making people more aware of basic courtesies, that's all. We (and I include "I" in we) sometimes can be unaware of how much space we take up in public spaces.
Backpacks
On the Green Line last year, I saw someone wearing a huge backpack crush someone with it and then blame the crushee. Many times, people won't move when you say excuse me, even those who are not wearing backpacks, and especially those who s
stand in doorways. If I have a backpack on the T, I carry it by hand to avoid hitting someone.
But it is Boston
In New York they have quality-of-life police enforcement where you can be arrested for "outstretch", taking up more than one seat on the subway or lying down on the seats.
Really arrested?
Not just a warning -- or a ticket?
Or are you just pulling the leg of gullible Bostonians?
As inconsiderate as some
As inconsiderate as some people can be, isn't the guy just standing back a bit to let people leave/enter the train? It might have been just for a second that he was blocking the seat. Then again, he shouldn't be standing at the doorway.
But, maybe, he was also exiting and decided to let an old person out first. "Please, after you, maam" he says as some cynical jaded soul snaps a picture, reveling at the collective anger and frustration that could be harnessed by posting the picture on the internet along with a suggestive spin.
Or maybe he was being an ass.
worse things than that, for sure
If this is the worst thing that happened to this poor inconvenienced person on the Orange line, he doesn't know how charmed a life he leads. He obviously hasn't tried to get up the escalator at Forest Hills at 4 pm.