It isn’t that people in San Francisco are all a bunch of free-loving hippies bent on socialism for the masses, they just don’t give a shit if somebody is. One clear example of SF’s laissez-faire attitude is what happened on the train this morning. The SF/Millbrae train was super duper crowded, way more than usual. There were so many people on the train, sitting and standing, that when new person tried to get on this guy would yell, “IT’S FULL!”
However, no one said jack crap to the guy lying down asleep across two seats. People stood, crowded and swaying, looking at the sleeping man, wishing they could have one of the seats he so rudely occupied, but no one said a word. This is a perfect illustration of the demeanor of many Bay Area residents: “Do what you want, I don’t have to like it.”
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The same thing happens in Seattle, too. I’ve always thought of it as passive instead of political.
That’s probably it, the passivity thing.
In TN, somebody would have told him to get up and give the seat to a woman.
Would’ve gone a little something like this:
“Excuse me. Excuse me, sir? Why don’t you scoot on over and let this pretty young thang take a load off? Go on, scoot over, now.”
I went to the Bay Area in the late 90’s in an attempt to find St. Mary’s College in Moraga. Sacramento State, my school, was in a women’s soccer tourney there. I got to do some hecka joyriding of the BART while there, getting off in Laffayette or Orinda (or Laffayette/Orinda? I forget the names of those stops). I had to turn back, but it was a fun time. Does Nashville have light rail, too, or is this a novelty to you? I love light rail to death.
New York City is different (I happened to read both of these posts on the same day).
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