People who refuse to move down - is there a name for this condition?

Posted by lesdog about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 month ago 46 responses

Who are these people who get on a busy train and then stand right in the doorway, when there is a queue of people behind them waiting to get on. Who are they, where do they come from!? What makes a person so dense that they have no awareness of their physical space, or the courtesy to look behind and see if they might need to make some more room by MOVING DOWN! Even when you are virtually cuddling them they won’t move. MOVE DOWN! Even when I politely whisper in their ear (I am that close to it) “can you MOVE DOWN please?” they still don’t move. Is there a name for this condition?

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Cunts?

Posted about 1 year ago by esotericbadger

Driver: “Move down the car. Move down the car. It’s called physics people, a solid object cannot pass through another solid object, please move down the car.”

It brings out the best in people, no?

Posted about 1 year ago by Simone

if they won’t budge, move round them into the space they refuse to occupy. then you can move them “up” a bit and they’ll be a little happier.

Posted about 1 year ago by iSleepDiagonal

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I think I know what their problem is. I’m a serial mover-downer on overground trains, and when moving down, a secret game of ‘musical chairs’ begins, whereby everyone standing has to find something to grab on to. Problem being that there’s not enough things to hang onto for everyone (unless they’re 6’5” and can reach the luggage rack). Which occasionally leaves me staggering all over the train from London Bridge to Croydon, and on one occasion has seen me with my face in some unsuspecting lady’s groin.

Maybe I should refuse to move down until they install enough holdy-onny-bits.

Posted about 1 year ago by flippy

I find a swift, well-aimed kick to the ankles usually does the trick…

Posted about 1 year ago by plum

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I think the rolling stock must be designed and built somewhere like Germany where the idea of having to provide loads of holdy-onny bits is not quite such a priority.

If they’re designed in Britain, with input from anyone who’s ever been on a rush-hour overground train, I would like to know what it is that occupies their skull.

Posted about 1 year ago by BraveNewMalden

The insane thing is if you move down into the aisle its a shiteload less crowded than in the open bit by the doors…so why not make it easy on yourself (directed at hypothetical stanbdy still in obstrucing type way person)

Rosco

Posted about 1 year ago by unknown

Maybe try whispering it in their ear in a sinister and spooky way, rather than a polite way – it may scare them onwards! That said, there have been plenty of occasions (bus, rather than tube) when I’ve watched someone scramble over and past people in their attempts to move down, only to stop abruptly when they reach the pushchair/wheelchair/other obstruction that meant all the other passengers weren’t moving. So sometimes it isn’t sheer bloodymindedness, it’s just that there’s no-where to move to.

Posted about 1 year ago by babybat

I used to say “move right down inside the cars ” in a loud voice but now I just give the non movers dirty looks and seethe on the platform. Sad. I just can’t be bothered with the selfish, ignorant self-centred tossers.

Posted about 1 year ago by eastbloke

Sometimes it’s because people know they’re getting off soon and don’t want to get stuck in the middle of the carriage and have to fight their way out. Has anyone ever missed their stop by being stuck in an over-crowded tube by the way? There have been loads of times I’ve thought people weren’t going to make it out in time but I’ve never seen anyone actually fail to get out. Unlike on the trains – a couple of years ago I was on the train from Peckham to Lewisham, and there was a tourist-y couple with loads of bags on board. When we arrived at Lewisham one of them got off, the other stayed on and started passing out the bags one by one to them. Knowing, as I did, that the drivers on that route were pretty trigger-happy about departing, I thought there was a fair chance that the train would go before they’d finished. And lo and behold, the driver took off with one person + half the baggage still onboard. I felt kinda guilty for not grabbing all their bags at once, and the arm of the person still onboard, and leaping off the train. They peered out of the door window in a bemused fashion as the train picked up speed out of the station …

Posted about 1 year ago by Tayto

They’re called YAIMPS – abbreviation of ‘You Ain’t Invading My Personal Space’. A quick shove, embarassing remark or kick in the c*nt usually does the trick.

Posted about 1 year ago by vapourtrail

They are kin to the Unspeakable Ones on the Wandsworth Road buses who WON’T TAKE A SEAT UPSTAIRS and so no one can get on at later bus stops. I was SO pi**ed off about this that I actually emailed Transport for London asking for a campaign to embarrass people into moving upstairs. They replied, thanking me for writing to them…er, that’s it.

Posted about 1 year ago by TheEldestOyster

I find the best method is to cosy up to them and say, “I love getting close in a carriage”. Just watch them shoot down to give you (and everyone else) space!

Posted about 1 year ago by dmv501