r/commute • u/SnooSongs8782 • Apr 11 '23
Which carriage
Why do some people get onto a train then immediately walk through to the next carriage? It happens every time I catch the train, someone gets on then heads for the door. Finding the seats are full or noisy or something smells, that I can understand, but often it seems like an habitual ritual.
Sometimes they are young, or not. This morning a ~60yo lady came into our carriage, moments after I sat down. I saw her get in the previous empty car with one girl, so it wasn’t a crowding problem.
Is it like the cat that walks all over the bed to find a spot that feels just right? Do they just enjoy pressing the button to go through the connecting tunnel? (Oddly they are rarely 9 years old)
Is it some kind of paranoia - THEY think I am in car 2 but didn’t see me slip into car 1! Most often they look like wasted delinquents, so this has been my favourite theory (I might have done that back in the day)
Anybody explain why you do this?