{"id":338,"date":"2011-01-17T17:25:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T02:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/?p=338"},"modified":"2011-01-19T21:22:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T06:22:37","slug":"341-99-commuter-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/2011\/01\/17\/341-99-commuter-series\/","title":{"rendered":"341-99: Commuter Series \/ Part I: Pet Peeves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Commuters, <\/p>\n<p>Commuting is no fun. That&#8217;s a fact. I believe that a huge part of this is that commuting is one of those times that people are at their worst- we&#8217;re cranky or groggy, we&#8217;re just plain tired, and we don&#8217;t want to be late. Think of this, though- what if you think of the fact that commuting=public transportation? Public, meaning that being amongst people is inevitable! The least we can do is be considerate, and look out for each other. We&#8217;ll be commuting with each other for what, 4-5 more years (and in my case, 7.5)?<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of all this, here&#8217;s a list of absolute DON&#8217;TS when you&#8217;re on the bus or Skytrain or waiting in line. Keep these in mind and I&#8217;ll love you forevah~!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>DON&#8217;T stay by the doors when there&#8217;s space to stand in at the back. MOVEMOVEMOVEEEE<\/b> This especially applies to the 99, the Skytrain from 4-7pm, and other such buses that are jampacked (e.g. 321 in Surrey). You&#8217;ll feel nicer, since there won&#8217;t be some random oxymoron of a person telling you to move back with a sweet voice and a deadly look on her face at the same time.<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li> <b>DON&#8217;T stay on your seat when there&#8217;s an elderly person who can&#8217;t find a seat.<\/b> Come on, this one&#8217;s a given! It makes me so sad when I see nobody taking initiative to do something like this, and I can sometimes feel people just waiting for someone to do it, as long as it&#8217;s not them. BUT REALLY, DO IT- consider it your good deed of the day.<\/li>\n<li> <b>DON&#8217;T keep your backpack on your back.<\/b> This mainly applies to, as always, really crowded buses\/Skytrains. Most of us really don&#8217;t want our face hit. Both people sitting down and standing up are victims of the deadly combo of heavy backpack and constant turning.<\/li>\n<li><b>DON&#8217;T listen to your music so loudly!<\/b> I know you can&#8217;t help but want to jam to &#8220;Love The Way You Lie&#8221; and angst like you&#8217;re in your room, but some of us don&#8217;t. Or don&#8217;t like the song period. If you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s too loud, on iPods\/iPhone\/iThings, the volume bar filling halfway (or a little over it) should be good.<\/li>\n<li><b>DON&#8217;T sit on the aisle seat when the window seat is empty.<\/b> Make it easier for the person standing up to take a seat. Do you really want to be in &#8220;that awkward moment&#8221; when that person&#8217;s practically on top of you trying to get to the freaking window seat?????<\/li>\n<li><b>When on the aisle seat, DON&#8217;T just shift a little to the aisle when the person beside you needs to leave.<\/b> Get up, or if there&#8217;s room, swivel your legs all the way to the aisle- make room! See &#8220;that awkward moment&#8221; comment above.<\/li>\n<li><b>DON&#8217;T go barging onto the bus\/into the Skytrain when people need to get off.<\/b> Wait for them to get off first, instead of fighting against them just to get in\/on. Calm down- you have time..<\/li>\n<li><b>DON&#8217;T cut in line.<\/b> See, this is why I love the 99 B-Line bay in the bus loop- there&#8217;s a little rail lean-on thingy that maintains a line for each set of doors. All the other bays don&#8217;t get a rail, so when a back door opens, you fight to get in or else. Try and be more considerate, yeah? We&#8217;ve waited in line 8 minutes longer than you have- it&#8217;s only fair.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So please please please, pretty please with cherries and chocolate syrup on top, try and keep this in mind. You&#8217;ll make the world a much better place, and rush hour commuting less of a bloody ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>Ever the commuter-for-life (or her entire post-secondary career, I joke thee not),<br \/>\nJennine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Commuters, Commuting is no fun. That&#8217;s a fact. I believe that a huge part of this is that commuting is one of those times that people are at their worst- we&#8217;re cranky or groggy, we&#8217;re just plain tired, and we don&#8217;t want to be late. Think of this, though- what if you think of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commuting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}