Blocking the exits on public transport

I hate these passive aggressive call out posts, but man when did people become so shitty about blocking the exits on crowded public transport and not moving so others could exit at their stop? With the last week or so’s construction on the light rail, it’s been packed and all you good socially awkward Seattleites have been acting like nobody else on earth exists, and the train is all your personal space. People are pleading “excuse me this is my stop” only to be completely ignored by a crowd of commuters with their faces buried in their phones.

The worst was actually on a bus in the U District last week. It was packed, maybe the most packed I’ve ever seen a bus here. A full quarter of the bus (anyone towards the back) missed their stop because the people in front simply would not move out of the way. I asked the kid in front of me to move so the person behind me could exit and he just shrugged. someone eventually started screaming “stop the bus!” And that seemed to shock people enough to move finally. Everyone who had just missed their stop filed out.