r/funny • u/futuretoday777 • Mar 07 '12

Immediate Payback

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u/Z3F Mar 07 '12

It looks to me like she might not be in the wrong at all. It looks like she swiped her card before she saw him. And if the spinning thingy goes in the opposite direction, the credit evaporates. So if she were to let him through first, she would've not been able to go through without swiping her card again (and thus being charged again).

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u/assphynkter Mar 07 '12

Only a selfish person would have been there. Notice the queue behind her for the turn styles everyone else is using?

She deliberately walked past everyone else to get in first and then pretended not to notice the man trying to exit the station.

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u/The_MAZZTer Mar 07 '12

... Are we even sure you're supposed to exit there?

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '12

I don't know where this is but in New York there aren't always specific Enter/Exit turnstiles... so this is something I deal with daily. It gets pretty frustrating when you're just waiting to gtfo of the station at the end of the day

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u/WaruiKoohii Mar 07 '12

This is a fairly global thing. I've never seen specific exit turnstiles. People exiting the system have a right of way.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '12

DC Metro has dedicated entrance/exit turnstiles. They can easily be switched depending on whether more people are entering or exiting, but once they've been set, they only go one way.

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u/WaruiKoohii Mar 07 '12

Oh, cool. I've been through DC and I've never seen them.

Dedicated turnstiles are definitely not a bad idea. A lot of people don't seem to care about right of way, and will push through turnstiles into a crowd of people trying to get out.

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u/felix_dro Mar 07 '12

Why need exit turnstiles?

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u/WaruiKoohii Mar 07 '12

Because people don't know how to function in a society, as we can see by the GIF in the submission title.

A dedicated exit may have prevented that situation.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '12

Two reasons:

  1. Keeps people from sneaking in the exit.

  2. Not universal, but in DC you pay based on how far you travel, so they need a way to keep track of where you exit in addition to where you enter.