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Yea sorry, I gotta agree w/ nightcrawler. Do you know how many open gates I see daily? Do you know how many older people walk the streets daily? She was not paying attention & if you're legally blind, don't try to multi task and look at your phone while walking...step to the side.
As far as OP, what I started doing is whenever I see someone walking with their phone (subway stair or not), I hope that they are paying attention and looking up simultaneously, if not, I will slow down stop right in front of you and say "pay attention". lol
I don't say anything. Either stop dead in my tracks, or if they run into my shoulder and almost break their nose, well that's their problem. Get tired of people doing *everything* but paying attention to what is in front of them. Some even without phones, will walk one way and look in the other direction while doing so. The recklessness of some people drives me nuts. Had one man a few weeks back just walking with his head buried in his damn cell phone. Meanwhile, am walking with my hands full with bags or whatever and simply refused to try to figure out where in the hell he was going as he was meandering all over the place, so stopped dead in my tracks and waited for him to finally look up. Then at the last minute, he looks up, starts grinning realizing what an idiot he was and starts apologizing. Looked at him and said am not sure where you're going.
Have this society that needs to be coddled because they're too self-absorbed to be bothered.
The lady was legally blind and had diabetes. She wasn't feeling good (dizzy, nauseous, etc) so she was about to check the time on her phone to see if it was lunch time or something.
Maybe if she laid off the Popeye's she wouldn't have diabetes
you mean to tell me she didnt see the open gate only a few feet ahead?
please.
im not buying this legally blind diabiatic crap.
the woman was a complete retard to not be paying attention to where she was walking,please
and here is another retard falling into a mall fountain, hence the name 'fountain lady"
I am sick and tired of being behind someone on the subway stairs while they are busy texting or looking at their phones and holding up pedestrian traffic. Is it that important? Even folks like me who does business on my phone, I don't bother using it on the staircase especially some stairs can be quite dangerous with people flying down or carrying carts or bikes.
Because they are simply not conscious.
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This happened last night, but at Newark Penn. Got off PATH, saw I had about two minutes to catch my NJ Transit train. You get to the platform by going up a narrow escalator.
At the door to the escalator, there's this young twit taking slow, tiny steps while staring at her phone with a dim-witted grin, blocking everyone else from accessing the escalator. Some man and I each brushed around one side of her, and we both loudly said EXCUSE ME at the same time. She looked up as if becoming aware of her surroundings, and I looked back and sort of snarled, "the train's pulling in and people need to get to up to the platform and you are blocking the way."
This happened last night, but at Newark Penn. Got off PATH, saw I had about two minutes to catch my NJ Transit train. You get to the platform by going up a narrow escalator.
At the door to the escalator, there's this young twit taking slow, tiny steps while staring at her phone with a dim-witted grin, blocking everyone else from accessing the escalator. Some man and I each brushed around one side of her, and we both loudly said EXCUSE ME at the same time. She looked up as if becoming aware of her surroundings, and I looked back and sort of snarled, "the train's pulling in and people need to get to up to the platform and you are blocking the way."
Felt very self-righteous, I did.
And caught my train.
The worst is someone taking their time on the stairs in front of you JUST as the doors are about to close on the train. That feeling, ughh
I have this twisted desire for everybody's phones to quit working for a little while. A few days. Maybe a week. Long enough to watch everybody lose their minds and have a good laugh about it.
The worst is someone taking their time on the stairs in front of you JUST as the doors are about to close on the train. That feeling, ughh
I barrel right through people like that. Sorry. This is NYC....MOVE!! or step to the side or get out of my way!
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