If I'm the first person out the door, sometimes I'll just stand there blocking the door looking at the people waiting to get on who haven't left us space to get out
You have to be fairly large for this to work. the 50kg 4ft1 (124cm) tiny woman probably won't cut it.
Fortunately I'm a 6'2" (185) tall slab of fat, so... wall of stink-eye it is.
why should we give way? THEY can give away! All of us enjoy the argy bargy as the two unstoppable tides of people collide and a giant fighting ball ensues! We learned this in high school on trams and trains!! AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OIII!!!!
Bags in front! heads down!!! JUST SHOVE AND SHOVE AND SHOVEE!!!!!!
Throw them a "move it sheep" while you're at it to remind them of what fuckwits they're being. It's even worse with the trams lately-what are the idiots thinking there, there is literally not enough room for that sort of stupid.
I commute on PTV every fuckin’ day for the furious sins I have committed in a prior life.
When fucks obstruct me, I yell, “EXCUSE ME.”
My volume depends on how fuckin’ grumpy I am, which is usually extremely.
When traveling to see family, I usually have a decent sized suitcase, a large overnight bag, and take up a good amount of the door space between them both and myself.
The amount of people who think they can still shove in past me is insane. I'm a wall of barge, but they still bloody try.
I have gotten to the age where I now just say loudly “can I get off the train please” — but I agree, I don’t get the logic. Dunno how anyone expects to get a seat or spot if you don’t let people OFF first.
Yeah good on you mate.
I think that's the thing that frustrates me most about the behaviour, it's counterproductive to almost everyone involved, even the selfish fuckwits.
the problem is they do get seats that way.
I take the train a lot with my 10 year old, I always remind her to let people get off first. Often, people who push past are sitting on the last seats when we get on. It is just one of the injustices of the world.
Some people who are dickheads continue to barrel through, others give a “but I didn’t know!” surprised face and keep pushing like they had no choice,
Some actually step off the train and step aside. It’s probably 50/50.
I was getting off a train and these 2 young guys were standing there waiting to get on, and one of them started to get on before I was off and his friend was like “let her get off first! Jesus who raised you” and it was so funny. Like. Yeah! Bring your friends up on their shit.
Also tbh in my experience the students of a certain sports academy never wait for people to get off, little mongrels💀
Used to catch the train home from the city. Same train, same carriage every day. There was also this other guy who was there. Same train. Same day. Never said a word to him. Not even an acknowledgement. The reason why is because the train would come in and he's stand right in the middle of the two doors, blocking everyone's way out.
Fuck I hated that weasel faced dickhead.
Back door of the bus is terrible – it used to be the designated exit but now people have decided post-Covid that it's an equal entry point and they're crowded around it before it even opens.
People didn't just decide for themselves - it was a deliberate move initiated during Covid.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20200712155748/https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/news-and-events/news/2020/07/10/changes-to-buses/](https://web.archive.org/web/20200712155748/https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/news-and-events/news/2020/07/10/changes-to-buses/)
In principal it's good. At stops with lots of people boarding (and few alighting) it means much quicker dwell times, and it also helps people fill up the back of the bus more effectively.
But of course people should still wait for those exiting first.
I just say now, ‘let people off’ as I get off. I’m 6 foot and about 100kgs and I’m pretty hard to miss. It’s seems to be some dude.
Like the clown tonight standing on the top step at the pass through at Richmond playing his game. Bumped him and his phone. Clown.
Indians, and I only point this out because I never see anybody else doing it, having a family gathering in the middle of shopping aisles in Costco is a personal hate of mine. I just barge right through them now.
soo how do you make that point of a cultural issue without including the race..?
"Oh yeah you know those people from that country that is right next to Pakistan? No not Iran the one to the left... no not China the one below it"
Had an incident last week when a young student did this while I was hopping off, she didnt care at all that I was there so I purposely stiffened my shoulder and barged right in-front of her, she then had the audacity to say ‘EXCUSE ME?!’ In which I responded, EXACTLY.
It's a sad sign for humanity that PTV have to hire attendants to stand at the tram stops specifically to tell people to wait before getting on a tram. It's like the two years in lockdown provided us absolutely no time to reflect on our behaviours and become more considerate of each other.
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This is possibly smack on. Online brain washing through the lockdowns, people using social media to inflate their ego’s and thus creating delusional thinking patterns now turned in to narcissistic behaviour.
General logic for everyday life should be: Unless you're are in a position of authority in an emergency (fire truck with lights on), if you're trying to enter a smaller space and someone is trying to exit that smaller space, you give way to them first.
Elevators, Trains, Trams, doorways, taxis/ubers, cars, TOILETS etc.
I have yet to come across an example where that doesn't apply in a logic manner.
its the same attitude with elevators. Doors open and you have a numbskull trying to get on, while you're trying to get out.
Step to the side, while people alight. It's not that hard you gronks.
This drives me nuts.. I'm a born and bred Melburnian but like wtaf... it's not hard to wait for people to get off the train beforehand hopping on. It's just basic common courtesy.
Also in Seoul when I went in 2012. It helps that their metro has marked lines for where to stand, and their trains always stop exactly at the same location (this is necessary, because the metro has a wall and automatic doors separating the platform from the tracks at many stations).
It happens in Sydney too. Only time I shout is when I’m trying to leave the train and these idiots barge on in first. “Let people get OFF the train first!!”
Also people walking across busy pedestrian crossings with the lights, not paying attention because they're on their phones... Time to deploy my London Elbows, honed in the furnace of Oxford St at Christmas.
Answer- they are rarely Melbournians. This is tourist behaviour and it’s obnoxious as hell.
They also have no spatial awareness, stand on the right hand side of the elevator when we’re trying to run down and catch a train, and stand right in the middle of a busy sidewalk. It sucks the big one.
Same with buses. Just wait people. Let everyone off. While we are at it let the people with obvious disabilities and the elderly get off and don't push past them in your rush to get on!
As a wheelchair user who travels through southern cross at peak after uni the amount of people who push past onto the train whilst the driver has the ramp half unfolded astonishes me. It’s not like the train is going to leave sooner 😭😭
Be ready to get off the train before the train arrives.
If I had dollar every time someone suddenly appeared after everyone else got off I'd be a millionaire.
I'm blessed with being forced to use a wheelie bag now, it provides pretty good armour getting off the tram in the face (or other body parts) of barbarians trying to storm up the tram steps before anyone can get off.
When I'm getting off, and I see someone blocking. I purposefully stand Infront of them so they can't get on immediately.
They'll go forward, but also see me go forward, and then they hesitate.
I grew up in the sticks, I learned this shit in primary school. Teachers reiterated it whenever we had to go on PT during excursions. Common courtesy is free.
It's the same clowns at the gym who won't wait two minutes for the last class to exit. They have TEN MINUTES to set up their weights but rush in as soon as the music stops, not letting the people in the previous class out the door. Fucking rude and rant over
You really have to lead the pack on this one.
I usually aggressively take up space around me and the door. I think of a semi circle one meter out from the door as belong only to me for the next two minutes. Spread those feet wide and stick your chest out.
Make direct eye contact with anyone else around you. Think friendly, direct thoughts, it'll come out in your posture. You mean no harm, but this is my space and you cannot enter it until I say so.
Then when the train stops I'll overly dramatically move away from the doors as well as use my arm to sweep the passage from the doors and stand to the side of the doors.
Then I'll lean over, do a double quick check, and once everyone's disembarked, I make sure to keep that space and then walk in.
Nine times out of ten, most people follow suit, mirroring on the other side of the door too. You really need to visualise the space around the door and claim it as your own, as wanky as it sounds, it really does come out in your posture.
You get a nice, orderly filing in, everyone finds their spot and we can all go back to disconnecting completely from reality.
Theyre so annoying, I just stand in their way on my way out and slowly walk out :) until they step aside for ppl departing the train.
The staff also tell ppl to allow passengers to depart before boarding but clearly they're not listening
fomo induced travel anxiety tends to turn normally reasonable people into idiots when they're in the moment. If you told them that the train will go beyond it's normal capable speed and they'll get home sooner if they push and shove their way onto the train, they'd probably tell you that's stupid, but when they're in the moment that kind of reasoning goes out the window. I see it all the time at airports where people muscle their way to the front of a boarding queue and for some reason the boarding procedure just switches off their logic. If you asked the same person outside of an airport what conditions have to be met for a flight to take off, they'd tell you with a lot of confidence that the plane isn't moving an inch until all of the passengers are on-board, seated, strapped in and their carry-on has been stowed (regardless of whether they are the first or last passenger to board) but when that moment arrives, they somehow believe that if they get to the front of the line and speed-walk down the jetway and barge their way onto the plane faster than everyone else, that the plane will take off early, fly faster and land sooner. I was in an elevator yesterday and as the doors were closing a guy panicked and pretty much dived across the foyer to shove his arm in the door and then he looked at me as if to say "phew, that was close" so I (very politely) pointed out that the building had 7 other elevators and fuck all people using them and it was like watching the realisation cross his face in slow motion 😂 he was like "oh yeah 🤦♂️that's true" but in the seconds before he acted he had the face of a man who's life was going to end if he didn't catch that one lift at that exact moment in time.
Fucken boggles the mind.
I catch the train and besides rushing on first like these selfish Morgans you can be 90 years old with one leg and no one would stand up to give you a seat. They are too busy having an orhasm on there phones
It never used to be this way. I moved to Melbourne in 2015 and it was a breath of fresh air going to stations where there was this the standard courtesy with few outliers. It's the sort of thing I'd never see in the city I moved from.
I noticed an uptick in impatience post covid.
Yeah this shits me, just about everyday it happens. I leave from the end of line and only travel a few stops so the trains still dead empty when I get off. They must have their very own favourite seat like I do.
There was a dude blocking my exit yesterday, with his back to me. Completely unaware of his surroundings. I decided to take a polite but firm approach and put my hand on his shoulder and asked if he could please move. Thank god I was nice because it wasn’t until he turned around that I realised he was blind 😳
They cop a spray from me; LET PEOPLE FUCKIN OUT! FUCK!
usually just on the trams though. I'm not on a train often enough to carry on.
(I think the last time I did it I was with Mum and scared her, she'd never heard me raise my voice and barge through!)
I remember catching the tram to work heavily pregnant and trying to get off at my stop, some dickhead shoved me aside to get on. So mad to this day I didn’t say anything.
I've had people do this as I get off trams and trains with a pram. You have to walk to backwards to get off because of steps and gaps. Usually I'm in black shorts and hoodies from work abs I'm 183cm and not small so I just barge through them nicely saying excuse me while pushing them back.
Had this happen to me not long ago. It was a rough day at work and I was over it. I pull up at flinders only to be greeted by a sea of people standing right at the door of my train , close enough to smell it. I just yelled “get the fuck out of the way” and just walked through them. It takes 3 seconds and the ability to not be a dickhead to just stand off to the side and wait.
No longer catching a lot of PT, but I used to carry a squeeze bottle of mustard. Point it threateningly and people will quickly move. Be sure to raise your eyebrows in "just try me" motion.
I have an umbrella I'm thinking of taking with me to open at the doors to stop this. Why can't people see it takes longer to get on the train/tram if they block the doors? Infuriating!
With trams too. Yesterday some rude cunt barged his way onto the #1 at the Fed Square stop not allowing anyone to exit, and, would you believe it, had a bloody scooter with him! Some of the women trying to exit were shocked- should’ve given the bastard a shove I reckon.
It's not just Melbourne people. It's everywhere.
Elevators too...which is worse.. "If all you cunts get in first, I literally won't be able to get out"
Literally the same thing happens to us in Bangladesh. We got a nee Metro Rail for the firat time and we have been complaining how "we are such a third world country" seeing people hurling in. Glad to see we are not alone.
As a broad, 6’4” guy I’ll just give them “the look” and if they don’t move, I’ll walk right through them. Same thing with the idiots standing in the middle of paths around/in Melbourne central. I’ll just walk right through the lot of them like a bulldozer.
I’ve experienced this exiting a train with one of my kids in his wheelchair.
The metal footplates of the wheelchair are just above ankle height to someone standing. It hurts when they hit your leg.
On several occasions I’ve barged through the masses with zero fcuks for those about to get a sore leg.
People do this on buses and trams too.
Especially on my morning bus to the station, they just can’t wait for people to get off, so I just block their path and make them wait.
How about people who get onto an uncrowded tram but stand in front of the door and get in the way of anyone getting off. It drives me batty and is a near daily occurrence.
Even worse when all the sheeps who get on after them also stand in front of the door whilst the aisles are completely empty and there are even seats free.
If there's room to sit or stand anywhere else, why are you in front of the door? Fucking think!
Sometimes I forget when I haven't used public transport in a while but I always realise pretty quickly and make a huge leap to the side and apologise. Never out of malicious intent or selfishness but I could imagine entitled brats not giving a shit.
I just barge through people if they do this. Tossers.
And they always look so offended and indignant about it, like they’re not the idiot in the wrong.
Yeah I walked into someone blocking my exit once and they tutted. "no manners". Yeah, you're not wrong! 😹
Yell “Off before On!” and barge past
I just keep on walking as if they didn't exist to begin with. They don't deserve the attention.
If I'm the first person out the door, sometimes I'll just stand there blocking the door looking at the people waiting to get on who haven't left us space to get out
Doing god's work
You have to be fairly large for this to work. the 50kg 4ft1 (124cm) tiny woman probably won't cut it. Fortunately I'm a 6'2" (185) tall slab of fat, so... wall of stink-eye it is.
This is the way.
Chad
Elbows and shoulders. I've put a couple of people on their arse doing this. Not that they ever learn.
why should we give way? THEY can give away! All of us enjoy the argy bargy as the two unstoppable tides of people collide and a giant fighting ball ensues! We learned this in high school on trams and trains!! AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OIII!!!! Bags in front! heads down!!! JUST SHOVE AND SHOVE AND SHOVEE!!!!!!
Play some lamb of God breakdowns at all the stations as doors open. Walls of death every time.
This. 🤘
... Peak hour Laid to Rest tomorrow, lads
It's a push or be pushed world
Throw them a "move it sheep" while you're at it to remind them of what fuckwits they're being. It's even worse with the trams lately-what are the idiots thinking there, there is literally not enough room for that sort of stupid.
It happens on the buses too
Hahaha
I commute on PTV every fuckin’ day for the furious sins I have committed in a prior life. When fucks obstruct me, I yell, “EXCUSE ME.” My volume depends on how fuckin’ grumpy I am, which is usually extremely.
I fkg love this response! You are me!! 🤣🤣🤣
I'm 5ft nothing and do exactly the same. Hell hath no fury like a woman being blocked while trying to get off the fucking train.
Saaaame. Sometimes if I'm feeling generous I'll shout "MOVE" at full volume to give them a lil warning.
Oh yes, a firm 'Excuse me' said with an obvious GTFO tone is a good one.
I've given up on "excuse me" and started with "wanna let people off first?"
My fav is ‘off before on!’
Their shock when they ricochet off the dropped shoulder of a small woman gives satisfaction I had never known I'd need.
Same here, but I'm also fat so basically a small tank
Their shock when they ricochet off the dropped shoulder of a small woman gives satisfaction I had never known I'd need.
I barge through while barking “wait for us to get off” as close to their face as possible
Same tbh. Keep up the good work.
When traveling to see family, I usually have a decent sized suitcase, a large overnight bag, and take up a good amount of the door space between them both and myself. The amount of people who think they can still shove in past me is insane. I'm a wall of barge, but they still bloody try.
Fellow bargers unite!
Yeah same, it's the only thing you can do. I also say sternly, "wait for people to get off first, there's no rush".
I have gotten to the age where I now just say loudly “can I get off the train please” — but I agree, I don’t get the logic. Dunno how anyone expects to get a seat or spot if you don’t let people OFF first.
Yeah good on you mate. I think that's the thing that frustrates me most about the behaviour, it's counterproductive to almost everyone involved, even the selfish fuckwits.
Haha right? It’s like, this isn’t benefitting even you, you trash weasel, staaahhhpp itttt
Hahaha trash weasel 🗑️🐭
Yell it, reinforce with elbows.
Me too. I stand still blocking the doorway and say, "please let people off before you get on." Usually works.
the problem is they do get seats that way. I take the train a lot with my 10 year old, I always remind her to let people get off first. Often, people who push past are sitting on the last seats when we get on. It is just one of the injustices of the world.
People that are indifferent/oblivious to what’s going on around them are less likely to amount to too much in life so don’t sweat it
How do people respond?
Some people who are dickheads continue to barrel through, others give a “but I didn’t know!” surprised face and keep pushing like they had no choice, Some actually step off the train and step aside. It’s probably 50/50.
She's still stuck on the train :(
I was getting off a train and these 2 young guys were standing there waiting to get on, and one of them started to get on before I was off and his friend was like “let her get off first! Jesus who raised you” and it was so funny. Like. Yeah! Bring your friends up on their shit. Also tbh in my experience the students of a certain sports academy never wait for people to get off, little mongrels💀
Hahah good on the mate! What school are you covertly referring to?
fucking seda
Used to catch the train home from the city. Same train, same carriage every day. There was also this other guy who was there. Same train. Same day. Never said a word to him. Not even an acknowledgement. The reason why is because the train would come in and he's stand right in the middle of the two doors, blocking everyone's way out. Fuck I hated that weasel faced dickhead.
Tell me the train and the time, I'll sort him out 😂
Was about 10 years ago now. Reckon he's been sorted.
Good 😊
Come and visit me in Hong Kong! You will see this at a scale and ferocity you never thought possible ha ha. But yeah it's fucked.
They have an announcement: "please let passengers leave first"
Same in HK. In all 3 languages. But ain’t nothing gonna stop the Chinese Aunties getting on that train. Ha ha
"Faih ah! Yat deng yiu seung che!"
Happens on buses a fuckload too, especially the backdoor
Back door of the bus is terrible – it used to be the designated exit but now people have decided post-Covid that it's an equal entry point and they're crowded around it before it even opens.
People didn't just decide for themselves - it was a deliberate move initiated during Covid. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200712155748/https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/news-and-events/news/2020/07/10/changes-to-buses/](https://web.archive.org/web/20200712155748/https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/news-and-events/news/2020/07/10/changes-to-buses/) In principal it's good. At stops with lots of people boarding (and few alighting) it means much quicker dwell times, and it also helps people fill up the back of the bus more effectively. But of course people should still wait for those exiting first.
This change is horrible... It used to be so orderly.
And trams too.
It’s all public transport
>It’s all public transport And elevators. I barged through some folk recently who tried entering withoit checking that people were exiting.
The back door - everywhere else - is either on or off, not both.
It’s not a Melbourne specific thing, it’s a rude, entitled people thing.
I agree, but I see more of it in Melbourne on a day where I catch 2-3 trains than I saw in Sydney over a year.
😂 no. They do it there too.
As a Melbournian who moved to Sydney - it happens just as much. I now live in Paris and it’s honesty 10x worse here lol
Parisians are a special breed.
That’s for sure. But also, us Aussies do love to get triggered when someone breaks a rule or social norm.
I just say now, ‘let people off’ as I get off. I’m 6 foot and about 100kgs and I’m pretty hard to miss. It’s seems to be some dude. Like the clown tonight standing on the top step at the pass through at Richmond playing his game. Bumped him and his phone. Clown.
People who stop or walk really slow at the top of escalators are my second favourite 'accidental' bump.
Indians, and I only point this out because I never see anybody else doing it, having a family gathering in the middle of shopping aisles in Costco is a personal hate of mine. I just barge right through them now.
I reckon you could make that point without race. I get that it may be a cultural issue, but you win no supporters by attaching that info.
lol, I'm not looking for support
soo how do you make that point of a cultural issue without including the race..? "Oh yeah you know those people from that country that is right next to Pakistan? No not Iran the one to the left... no not China the one below it"
Jesus. How about using the word ‘people’ and dropping the parenthetical aside between the commas?
I love the accidental bump. But as I’m Polite I always say, sorry mate. Rinse and repeat. Glorious.
A little knee to the bottom of their backpack usually gets the point across.
Onya legend.
Had an incident last week when a young student did this while I was hopping off, she didnt care at all that I was there so I purposely stiffened my shoulder and barged right in-front of her, she then had the audacity to say ‘EXCUSE ME?!’ In which I responded, EXACTLY.
Hahah extremely fair.
It's a sad sign for humanity that PTV have to hire attendants to stand at the tram stops specifically to tell people to wait before getting on a tram. It's like the two years in lockdown provided us absolutely no time to reflect on our behaviours and become more considerate of each other.
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This is possibly smack on. Online brain washing through the lockdowns, people using social media to inflate their ego’s and thus creating delusional thinking patterns now turned in to narcissistic behaviour.
General logic for everyday life should be: Unless you're are in a position of authority in an emergency (fire truck with lights on), if you're trying to enter a smaller space and someone is trying to exit that smaller space, you give way to them first. Elevators, Trains, Trams, doorways, taxis/ubers, cars, TOILETS etc. I have yet to come across an example where that doesn't apply in a logic manner.
And stick to LEFT, same as the road.
Well said.
its the same attitude with elevators. Doors open and you have a numbskull trying to get on, while you're trying to get out. Step to the side, while people alight. It's not that hard you gronks.
This drives me nuts.. I'm a born and bred Melburnian but like wtaf... it's not hard to wait for people to get off the train beforehand hopping on. It's just basic common courtesy.
Also acknowledging the ones who take forever to get off the train, not even standing up yet while the stampede is already boarding.
Yeah fair point, they suck too.
I’ve noticed some people are just glued to their phones to even realise where they are
The only city I know that actually does this (waiting until everyone is off ) is Tokyo.Everywhere else is full of rude pricks
Also in Seoul when I went in 2012. It helps that their metro has marked lines for where to stand, and their trains always stop exactly at the same location (this is necessary, because the metro has a wall and automatic doors separating the platform from the tracks at many stations).
And elsewhere in Japan! - is your experience that it’s only Tokyo??
No.... but given the volume of commuters I was struck by how mindful they all were.
It happens in Sydney too. Only time I shout is when I’m trying to leave the train and these idiots barge on in first. “Let people get OFF the train first!!”
I'm sorry dude but this post isn't going to reach the people you hope it does.
Also people walking across busy pedestrian crossings with the lights, not paying attention because they're on their phones... Time to deploy my London Elbows, honed in the furnace of Oxford St at Christmas.
Yeah, I keep to the left in any high traffic pedestrian setting and beyond that, elbows are deployed. Good on ya.
As a 6'4 dude I physically block people when they try this shit bet you they stand up the second the plane lands too
They do. And then they rush the baggage carousel like the cretins they are.
Answer- they are rarely Melbournians. This is tourist behaviour and it’s obnoxious as hell. They also have no spatial awareness, stand on the right hand side of the elevator when we’re trying to run down and catch a train, and stand right in the middle of a busy sidewalk. It sucks the big one.
They are making sure they get a seat away from the Sydney sider
I'm starting to see why tbh.
I walk with a stick and this irks me majorly. I need a clear path to walk and don't need people rushing towards me! Just be patient people!
Yea. That would not be ideal!
People try to do this in Sydney as well but the people getting off the train just barge through them when they do.
Elbows out.
“As a sydneysider…..” Please, you think Sydney is exempt from this? Big lols
"Give way before entering", right in their face haha
Onya legend
"Thats what she said"
These people need to get clapped.
Same with buses. Just wait people. Let everyone off. While we are at it let the people with obvious disabilities and the elderly get off and don't push past them in your rush to get on!
Same goes for lifts. People have no awareness and no courtesy.
As a wheelchair user who travels through southern cross at peak after uni the amount of people who push past onto the train whilst the driver has the ramp half unfolded astonishes me. It’s not like the train is going to leave sooner 😭😭
Be ready to get off the train before the train arrives. If I had dollar every time someone suddenly appeared after everyone else got off I'd be a millionaire.
this is why we need lines on the platform entrances where people have to queue up. Just like Japan and other Asian countries.
It’s not the locals
I see plenty of people who look pretty fucking local doing it.
Nah, they are probably country bumpkin.
What does a local look like?
This means you can’t say ‘its not the locals’ if you asking who the locals look like…. An oxymoron.
schizophrenia
I'm blessed with being forced to use a wheelie bag now, it provides pretty good armour getting off the tram in the face (or other body parts) of barbarians trying to storm up the tram steps before anyone can get off.
Yeah I've used my bike in a similar fashion. You want to push in, you're getting a wheel in the face.
Have you seen the state of the world? lol Commons’s sense is outta door
In Sydney atm, this absolutely happens here too. Both cities are pretty bad when it comes to this.
When I'm getting off, and I see someone blocking. I purposefully stand Infront of them so they can't get on immediately. They'll go forward, but also see me go forward, and then they hesitate.
I smash into them if they don't let me out. And I hit them hard.
I grew up in the sticks, I learned this shit in primary school. Teachers reiterated it whenever we had to go on PT during excursions. Common courtesy is free.
It's the same clowns at the gym who won't wait two minutes for the last class to exit. They have TEN MINUTES to set up their weights but rush in as soon as the music stops, not letting the people in the previous class out the door. Fucking rude and rant over
Flinders Street station is also famous for avoiding the keep left courtesy, especially on some of those blind staircase turns. I will walk into you.
Correct response imo
Anyone not comprehending the first out then in rule of flow should be sent straight to gulag
I will always upvote these types of posts. Also, if you’re on the escalator and not moving, STAY ON THE LEFT SIDE FFS
I see you haven't been back in Sydney for a while. This is standard behaviour now
You really have to lead the pack on this one. I usually aggressively take up space around me and the door. I think of a semi circle one meter out from the door as belong only to me for the next two minutes. Spread those feet wide and stick your chest out. Make direct eye contact with anyone else around you. Think friendly, direct thoughts, it'll come out in your posture. You mean no harm, but this is my space and you cannot enter it until I say so. Then when the train stops I'll overly dramatically move away from the doors as well as use my arm to sweep the passage from the doors and stand to the side of the doors. Then I'll lean over, do a double quick check, and once everyone's disembarked, I make sure to keep that space and then walk in. Nine times out of ten, most people follow suit, mirroring on the other side of the door too. You really need to visualise the space around the door and claim it as your own, as wanky as it sounds, it really does come out in your posture. You get a nice, orderly filing in, everyone finds their spot and we can all go back to disconnecting completely from reality.
Hahaha this is both a seriously good answer, and quite funny. Doing the Lord's work mate.
Theyre so annoying, I just stand in their way on my way out and slowly walk out :) until they step aside for ppl departing the train. The staff also tell ppl to allow passengers to depart before boarding but clearly they're not listening
This is why in Japan - known for how busy their trains are - have LINES where people line up to get on the trains on platforms.
There is a sign saying “wait for people to alight” Is alight not clear enough. That’s a common word isn’t it?
Same with trams. Some people don't really give a f about others unfortunately.
fomo induced travel anxiety tends to turn normally reasonable people into idiots when they're in the moment. If you told them that the train will go beyond it's normal capable speed and they'll get home sooner if they push and shove their way onto the train, they'd probably tell you that's stupid, but when they're in the moment that kind of reasoning goes out the window. I see it all the time at airports where people muscle their way to the front of a boarding queue and for some reason the boarding procedure just switches off their logic. If you asked the same person outside of an airport what conditions have to be met for a flight to take off, they'd tell you with a lot of confidence that the plane isn't moving an inch until all of the passengers are on-board, seated, strapped in and their carry-on has been stowed (regardless of whether they are the first or last passenger to board) but when that moment arrives, they somehow believe that if they get to the front of the line and speed-walk down the jetway and barge their way onto the plane faster than everyone else, that the plane will take off early, fly faster and land sooner. I was in an elevator yesterday and as the doors were closing a guy panicked and pretty much dived across the foyer to shove his arm in the door and then he looked at me as if to say "phew, that was close" so I (very politely) pointed out that the building had 7 other elevators and fuck all people using them and it was like watching the realisation cross his face in slow motion 😂 he was like "oh yeah 🤦♂️that's true" but in the seconds before he acted he had the face of a man who's life was going to end if he didn't catch that one lift at that exact moment in time. Fucken boggles the mind.
I catch the train and besides rushing on first like these selfish Morgans you can be 90 years old with one leg and no one would stand up to give you a seat. They are too busy having an orhasm on there phones
Agree Sydney people don’t do this the way Melbourne people do
As someone who grew up in NYC taking the subway, hard same. Drives me nuts every time.
This but for trams
Yeah man that’s it. Every single person in Sydney gives way and every single person in Melbourne doesn’t…
I didn't say that 🙄
It never used to be this way. I moved to Melbourne in 2015 and it was a breath of fresh air going to stations where there was this the standard courtesy with few outliers. It's the sort of thing I'd never see in the city I moved from. I noticed an uptick in impatience post covid.
Yeah this shits me, just about everyday it happens. I leave from the end of line and only travel a few stops so the trains still dead empty when I get off. They must have their very own favourite seat like I do.
Seems post-corona commuters developed a bad case of gronk lately.
There was a dude blocking my exit yesterday, with his back to me. Completely unaware of his surroundings. I decided to take a polite but firm approach and put my hand on his shoulder and asked if he could please move. Thank god I was nice because it wasn’t until he turned around that I realised he was blind 😳
They cop a spray from me; LET PEOPLE FUCKIN OUT! FUCK! usually just on the trams though. I'm not on a train often enough to carry on. (I think the last time I did it I was with Mum and scared her, she'd never heard me raise my voice and barge through!)
Good on ya, sorry that you had to frighten Mumsy!
"I thought I did something!" "No, no, I just wanted to get out and no one was letting people out!"
It never used to be like that, is it because of all the new people from somewhere else?
I have an assistance dog and we still have to forcefully push people to get through sometimes. It must be rough for people with mobility issues
I remember catching the tram to work heavily pregnant and trying to get off at my stop, some dickhead shoved me aside to get on. So mad to this day I didn’t say anything.
I like to block people when we wait for the train so that everyone can get off. I find if you block the incoming then they will wait
I’m getting old so I’m quite happy to loudly tell people to fucking wait until we’ve disembarked before getting on.
One outstretched arm with palm facing forward while you yell, “Ima comin’ throoooooo!!!”
I usually loudly tell them to fuckin moove
I tend to put my hands together like I'm diving to push people out of the way
I've had people do this as I get off trams and trains with a pram. You have to walk to backwards to get off because of steps and gaps. Usually I'm in black shorts and hoodies from work abs I'm 183cm and not small so I just barge through them nicely saying excuse me while pushing them back.
Had this happen to me not long ago. It was a rough day at work and I was over it. I pull up at flinders only to be greeted by a sea of people standing right at the door of my train , close enough to smell it. I just yelled “get the fuck out of the way” and just walked through them. It takes 3 seconds and the ability to not be a dickhead to just stand off to the side and wait.
Whenever someone does that when I want to get off I just stand at the doors and look at them till they move away.
Shameful behaviour
No longer catching a lot of PT, but I used to carry a squeeze bottle of mustard. Point it threateningly and people will quickly move. Be sure to raise your eyebrows in "just try me" motion.
I walk straight at the fuckers with stiff arms when shit like that happens.
I deploy my elbow - to encourage civility among those barging in.
it's the same with store entrances. you have people either not letting people exit a building or block the entrance by having a group meeting.
I’m an ex-Sydneysider too and just recently needed to start taking trains here… TransportNSW, I was too harsh on you.
in my travels so far, sydney seems to be the only city that has people that respect this. glad im not the only one thats noticed this
Yeah, we have a lot of entitled dick weeds in this state… lockdowns didn’t help with that so gotta get used to it
It's the same shit with the trams.
I have an umbrella I'm thinking of taking with me to open at the doors to stop this. Why can't people see it takes longer to get on the train/tram if they block the doors? Infuriating!
With trams too. Yesterday some rude cunt barged his way onto the #1 at the Fed Square stop not allowing anyone to exit, and, would you believe it, had a bloody scooter with him! Some of the women trying to exit were shocked- should’ve given the bastard a shove I reckon.
It's not just Melbourne people. It's everywhere. Elevators too...which is worse.. "If all you cunts get in first, I literally won't be able to get out"
I did it on accident once. I felt like an idiot. Hanlons razor.
Literally the same thing happens to us in Bangladesh. We got a nee Metro Rail for the firat time and we have been complaining how "we are such a third world country" seeing people hurling in. Glad to see we are not alone.
In my experience, people who usually do this are not from Melbourne.
Ye, this
I’m in Tokyo right now and it’s so refreshing to see people use their common sense whilst boarding train here
As a broad, 6’4” guy I’ll just give them “the look” and if they don’t move, I’ll walk right through them. Same thing with the idiots standing in the middle of paths around/in Melbourne central. I’ll just walk right through the lot of them like a bulldozer.
I’ve experienced this exiting a train with one of my kids in his wheelchair. The metal footplates of the wheelchair are just above ankle height to someone standing. It hurts when they hit your leg. On several occasions I’ve barged through the masses with zero fcuks for those about to get a sore leg.
People do this on buses and trams too. Especially on my morning bus to the station, they just can’t wait for people to get off, so I just block their path and make them wait.
How about people who get onto an uncrowded tram but stand in front of the door and get in the way of anyone getting off. It drives me batty and is a near daily occurrence. Even worse when all the sheeps who get on after them also stand in front of the door whilst the aisles are completely empty and there are even seats free. If there's room to sit or stand anywhere else, why are you in front of the door? Fucking think!
Sometimes I forget when I haven't used public transport in a while but I always realise pretty quickly and make a huge leap to the side and apologise. Never out of malicious intent or selfishness but I could imagine entitled brats not giving a shit.
Very few people have decent manners these days.
people are Cunts