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@HatBeard
getting the tube into moorgate occassionally in the mornings for work now i've found that the 'fast ones' are easily the biggest cunts for not reading a situation
getting off the tube there is literally a moving wall of people from the platform up a flight of stairs down a tunnel and then onto a single escalator. it's basically an increasingly narrow pinchpoint until you reach the top of the escalators. does that stop people trying to push and squeeze their way upstream like a demented salmon through the crowd of people who couldn't go any faster if they wanted to without getting into some kind of stampede/trampling scenario. of course not, they must get through first.
and when you get to the escalator and there's 100 people all trying to get onto this narrow moving walkway do people just wait and let the people ahead of them get on first. no they cut to the left of the escalator and try to jump ahead of everyone resulting in 4 peoples trying to fit into a gap wide enough for 2 people.
then theres the exit stairs to the station, space for 2 people up and 2 people down, keep to the left, everyone gets out alive. nope. people can't possible wait until people already trying to leave the station in front of them have made it up the stairs, they'll use the side for the people entering! what a marvellous time saver, why did no one else think of that!!! so now you have 3 people going up and anyone unfortunate enough to need to get into the station is having to fight against a surge of people and squeeze down the outside except what's this... there's an even bigger species of cunt in play. yep this particular breed of absolute twatbag is so much more important than everyone else, of course he's seen the 200 people carefully exiting the station in a semblance of order one after the other and yeah he understands that the space on the right is where people coming the opposite direction are now being forced to walk but fuck it he has a god given right to get to his destination faster than all these losers traipsing their way to dead end jobs off he goes, but whats this oh shit there's someone coming down the stairs, how dare they! oh well I'll just push my way in front of one of the plebs next to me they are in my way after all
seriously it takes me a few minutes to calm down whenever i get off the tube. in the 4 weeks i've been in this job i've not once tried to get the tube home, i add 30 minutes to my journey by walking to farringdon so i dont end up stoving some idiots head in with a rolled up free newspaper.