Can We All Please Look At This Mass Transit Etiquette Guide?

We could use a handout like this underground; the Bold Italic has created an etiquette guide for the people of the San Francisco Muni... and it's easily translatable to our own mass transit system. They write, "People get bitch slapped on the bus everyday. To keep things relatively amicable, we've come up with an etiquette guide for all Muni riders. May the force be with you on your future commutes." They seem to have included it all: no fast food, no peeing on the seats, no nail clipping... no tickling. What did they miss? [via Laughing Squid]

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on June 8, 2011 12:12 PM

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OvaltineJenkins

Yet no ticket for licking your shoe.

Mr Mel

And don't forget that they don't want your kids circumcised either.

Peanut_Butter

I don't like the art on that poster.

diablofreak

i had to deal with this 2 days in a row on the train. tall, lanky big white guys come and sit right next to me, it's all fine and dandy until they whip out their trusty WALL STREET JOURNAL and start flailing their elbows around like crazy next to me trying to flip the pages to read the damn newspaper like it's so friggin important.

if you a real stockbroker or wall street fatcat you wouldn't be taking the subway, douchebag.

Peanut_Butter

File that one under "people who have no idea of their own physical space and volume occupied".

AIG_Quant

it's mostly black people who bring the fast food into the train and it smells up the damn car.

SrslyDude

Is it really a race issue? Or are you just being generally douchey?

pazzo83

How about don't block the fucking door while people try to exit the train?

marco_esquandolas

I've seen a lot on the subway, but if I got on and that clown with the french fries was in the same car as me, I'd slowly back out and get off, and let the next two trains come and go so as to assure I wouldn't be anywhere near him.

Guest

When did etiquette become law? Oh wait, it didn't. Etiquette is only a suggestion on how to behave, not a forced behavior. So, if I bring food onto the subway to eat lunch because I don't have time to eat between the two jobs, shuttling the kids back and forth to school, picking up groceries, and any other errands I may need to run, Mr. & Mrs. Etiquette can fuck off.

gaelic47

The posted rules of the MTA state that you can not bring food or drinks onto the train, and you can be issued a ticket for it. So it is against the law. As for the rest of your rant, it's not our problem that you dislike your life as much as you do, so you can go fuck off.

Regards,

Mr. Etiquette

Guest

Honestly, I love my life (the life I gave an example of is not mine, but it could be anyone's) and it is NOT against the law to bring food and drinks (unless it's alcoholic) onto the subway. If you have such a problem with it, by all means please test me if you see me eating on the subway. I'm sure it's a lesson you'll not soon forget. Now, fuck off yourself.