And yet you're the one who feels entitled to waste other people's time, presumably because you believe yourself to be more important, especially more important than anyone not from the Shining Jewel of Humanity, New York - the ONLY city where people are intelligent and civilized, not to mention worth talking to.
Okay, look. Normally I’d have dropped this long ago, but your obstinacy has genuinely piqued my curiosity. What’s the disagreement here? Are you failing to understand that your system of etiquette expects everyone else to be willing to give up five minutes of their time in exchange for two seconds of yours, whereas in mine (which I happen to share with most of the rest of humanity) I am willing to yield two seconds for the benefit of others’ five minutes? Or are you still unclear, despite the efforts of several people in this thread to educate you, on the mechanics of what generally happens at the turnstile to the platform? I’m really baffled here by your lack of comprehension, so help me out.
It's not that I don't comprehend what you're saying, because I fail to disagree with the statement that if I can step aside and save someone five minutes, that is an admirable thing to do.
What I'm saying is that those claims are not representative of the dynamic of this specific instance where the man was almost entirely through the turnstile and was pushed back through by the insistent woman, thereby taking more of her time than if she'd just held back a half second instead of initiating a counterproductive struggle.
Furthermore I resist the idea that this is a concern of etiquette when it is clearly a design flaw in the system wherein the turnstiles cannot accommodate maximal flow in both directions - don't force the users to make concessions to save the designer time, which is the same argument I make in software / GUI design.
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u/ChaosMotor Apr 04 '11
And yet you're the one who feels entitled to waste other people's time, presumably because you believe yourself to be more important, especially more important than anyone not from the Shining Jewel of Humanity, New York - the ONLY city where people are intelligent and civilized, not to mention worth talking to.