The Train Chronicles #1

Why does the train make people so crazy and abandon all common sense? There are some very simple rules of courtesy that seem to get completely disregarded just because we're on a train. If we were all standing in a room together, regardless of how crowded it was, we don't violate people's personal space the way we do on the subway. Furthermore, if there is an open area, we tend to gravitate toward THAT as opposed to be scrunched up next to complete strangers. Somehow those rules don't apply to the train.

Just this morning, a woman with long wet hair got on the train in front of another woman who was standing by the door. I'm going to go ahead and say, to some degree, they were both wrong. The long haired woman didn't have any space to stand between the other woman and the door and began to point out that there was space in the middle of the car (side note: there is ALWAYS space in the middle of the car! Step in people!). The other woman didn't move because rightfully so, the long haired woman could have easily stepped inside herself. She didn't and instead decided to jam herself in the space between the other woman and the door. To add insult to injury, she turned her back to the woman and now her long, WET hair was in the other woman's face. They both seemed to want that exact spot. Why? Where else in our society is this acceptable?

I'm just sayin'....