I am your better. Do as I say.

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Chessic Sense said:
You think I give a shit if Metro knows it or not?
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I find your expectation that we or Jamal or the Metro should give a shit about what you do or not give a shit about amusing.

Honestly, it's not as though the world is chock full of less important people than you. By definition dear, if you're riding the Metro to work, you are profoundly unimportant.
 
DianaG said:
Honestly, it's not as though the world is chock full of less important people than you. By definition dear, if you're riding the Metro to work, you are profoundly unimportant.
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Maybe he has a private car. Or not.
 
Chessic Sense said:
I don't feel the need to brag about it. I feel the need to use it to insult the guy on an internet message board because it's undoubtedly true.
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No - saying he is low class would be insulting him. Saying you are better than him would be bragging for you and insulting for him.
 
Telemark said:
Chessic Sense said:
Why didn't I go to the starting station's kiosk? Because by the time I was done screwing around with the machines, the train was pulling in. No time.
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So you're 15 minutes later than you would otherwise have been. Is this that big a deal that you're willing to fare jump? I really don't get this mentality.
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Well first of all it might not have been 15 minutes. Since the train crash, the screen telling you when the next train is coming doesn't always work correctly because the trains are no longer routed entirely by computer. It was probably more than 2 minutes but it could have been three minutes.

Second of all, the only times you will see 15 minutes periods between trains is if there is a problem in the system or if you are travelling at off peak hours (which is when the tourists are travelling). Off peak hours don't start until 10 am.
 
Chessic Sense said:
villa said:
And Metro know this how? Because you tell them? Because you are white and wouldn't lie?

So Jamal, working hard at the kiosk at your destination, let's call it Metro Center, is expected to divine somehow that you got on at Dupont Circle, not at Vienna?

It only makes no difference if you were on a short enough trip for minimum fare. And without you swiping when you get on, Metro doesn't know that.
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You think I give a shit if Metro knows it or not? If I were trying to scam anybody, I would have just jumped the gate leading out. He should believe me because I'm approaching him in the first place, offering up front to pay for my ride. Besides, what's the difference in the fare? 40 cents, maybe? It's like the rules say "Give us 6" and I'm like "Here's half a dozen" and the alarms and sirens go off.
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You aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer, are you?

Metro has a rule. You swipe a card when you enter the station, and when you leave the station. That way Metro can tell how much to charge you. Instead, you seem to think there should be an honor system.

It's amazing how arrogant you are as to think that you can determine that the 40 cents is not important. I am sure you would think the same thing if Jamal was allowing young black people to go through for 40 cents less each time.

So tell me - how is Jamal meant to know which of these two situations occured?

1) Chessic gets up, walks to mass, takes communion, walks to the Metro, discovers the machine to add money to his card is not working, considers the sin involved in the situation, prays for forgiveness, enters through the turnstyle without swiping his card, rides the train from Dupont Circle to Metro Center, and seeks to pay at the other end. Metro lost revenue - zero.

2) Chessic goes on an all night speedball bender, and wakes up in a seedy motel in Shady Grove. Glancing over, he sees he has soiled his White Power Ranger costume, and that the Thai ladyboi he has paid to sodomize him bareback is currently demanding payment. Unfortunately, Chessic has miscalculated the cost of his perversions, not realizing that his desire for the aforementioned ladyboi to use racially degrading language to him would increase the price. Fearing the publicity of refusal to pay would jeopardize his job at Focus on the Family, Chessic gives the ladyboi all his cash, pleading that he will make up the difference when he returns for more self-loathing sex in a matter of days. Chessic arrives at the Metro, and realizes if he pays the full fare from Shady Grove, he will not be able to afford the bottle of Mad Dog to get himself through to the end of the day. So he jumps the turnstile, rides to Metro Center, and informs Jamal the machines were broken at Dupont Circle. Metro lost revenue - $3.05

Can you give me one good reason Jamal should believe the first story not the second?
 
kayaker said:
Chessic Sense said:
First of all, I know his name was Jamal because it was on his shirt. Secondly, I don't know that he was necessarily racist, but a lot of them are.
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How many Jamals do you know that you can so comfortably generalize?:dubious:
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Ahh, the "them" is Jamals. :smack: I was thinking something completely different.
Thanks for clearing that up for me!
Smeghead said:
Maybe he meant shirt-wearers.
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Now I'm confused again.

CMC fnord!
Chessic Sense said:
... Train pulls into the station, so I say "screw it" and tailgate someone through the entry gate. ... I evaded the fare ...
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Chessic Sense said:
... Again, I didn't fare jump. My method of paying for it was just...backward. ...
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Ya know, fare jumping doesn't actually require you to, ya know, literally jump.

"I didn't rob the bank your Honor, I just made an unauthorized withdrawal ... at gunpoint"
Chessic Sense said:
... So far, I think I'm winning. ...
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Nope, see that post that Wheelz made, that's what winning looks like.
You need some practice on this whole thinking thing.
 
PoorYorick said:
My wife and I plan on making a trip there soon. I've never been there, so I may not be real familiar with how your public transportation works. I may even take a couple of minutes to read the instructions. If this means that you're two minutes late to your important job, tough shit.
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Get the weekly (I don't know if they still have daily passes) pass so you don't pay for each trip.

Check out the Air and Space Museum, its probably the best one we got and its free.

The Art museum has a really nice buffet lunch that noone knows about (its really small) its not cheap but its really nice.

Don't forget to visit the scientologists in Dupont Circle.
 
Chessic Sense said:
Positive. I even called him "sir", like I always do. I'm glad to see at least one other SDMB DCer will cop to having done the same thing.
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Yeah but I knew I was jumping the turnstile when I jumped the turnstile (which is usually broken or something). If the guy at the other end wanted to bust my chops I wouldn't have been surprised. I usually act really dumb and clueless and they take pity on me and just charge me the maximum amount for that destination.
 
DianaG said:
He can't even get his work to pay for his Metro pass! :p
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Well, actually...

villa said:
So tell me - how is Jamal meant to know which of these two situations occured?
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Because situation #2 wouldn't happen. What that Chessic Sense would do would be to just jump the exit gate and not pay anything at all. So it's highly likely that someone honest enough to approach you to pay would be honest enough to pay the correct amount.

And I like the Yellow Power Ranger best, anyway.
 
Ogre said:
What station? And why didn't you go to the station kiosk with your trouble? It's been a few years since I lived there, but I seem to remember manned kiosks at just about every Metro station.
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I assume it's because the train was leaving in 2 minutes when he got to the station and he didn't want to risk missing it and waiting 15 minutes for the next one.

Freudian Slit said:
Yeah, Captain Amazing, but at least he wasn't a tourist.
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True enough. I've been riding the DC metro for 12 years, and tourists are the bane of every commuter's existence. Seriously, people of the United States, there are other places you can vacation in and take your 50 kid school groups to. And if you're going to come, stand on the right, at least.
 
So you mean they're supposed to pay for your Metro pass and they forgot you?

Yeah, you're a master of the universe, dude.
 
MeanOldLady said:
This one time an ATM ate my debit card, so there were those few days I when I had to rely on cash while waiting on my card. In order to get cash, though, I had to go into a branch, so I was all, "Fuck this. I don't want to wait in line with those fucking chumps." I just walked into stores and demanded they gave me stuff. "Cut out the lip, toots," I would say, "I need things now, and I'm not about to wait in any lines or give you a card with any money on it like some two-bit chump." Bitch shut up and just gave me what I asked for, due to my massive she-penis.
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I'm going to write this down on a 3x5 card and carry it around with me. Except I'll change the "she-penis" to "he-penis" because I am a dude and as a dude I have a he-penis.

Also someone should start a campaign to bring "toots" back into popular vernacular because "bitch" is so common it has lost some of it's degrading insultiness.
 
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