Train Etiquette

Since you all are planning to come visit us sometime, you will most likely have to ride the T. Let me give you a few rules about proper train etiquette.

1. Try to keep all body parts on your seat. This means when you read don't stick you elbows into the person next to you. This also means don't rest one leg on your knee. This causes the bottom of your dirty shoe to be in an inconvenient place for your train neighbor.

2. Along the same lines as rule number 1 try to control as best you can involuntary body movements. This means that when the train comes to a screeching halt, try not let your entire body weight slam into the person next to you.

3. This leads to rule number 3. If you cannot find a seat, you will obviously have to stand. But please don't be that guy who tries to ride the train without holding on to anything. This "train surfer" as they are called have a tendency to end up walking all around the train, usually slamming into or stepping on people's feet. This guy also takes up way more room than most people, and no one wants to stand next to him causing more congestion in other parts of the train.

4. Speaking of seats let's us a little courtesy people. If you have just gotten on the train, and there were already people standing on the train before you got on, they should probably get a seat first. What makes you so important that you need a seat? Don't you think that the person who has already been riding 10 mins longer than you had a hard day and would like to get off their feet as well.

5. It's common courtesy to let people off the train before you get on. It is also common courtesy, although I don't think people know it, to let the people who waited to get on the train because they were letting people off, to get on first. This is my biggest pet peeve. When you are waiting next to the door in line while people file off the train and some asshole walks right between the two lines and gets a seat. DON'T BE THAT GUY.

6. The last no so much a rule, but an observation. Beth is one of the few people who can squeeze in between to people who take up more than their fair share of a seat, if you know what I mean. I am however, not sure why she takes those seats, but Beth nonetheless is a rare exception of people who fit in the no man's land seats.

We can't wait for you to come to Boston, and now you won't be "that guy" on the train.