I am your better. Do as I say.

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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.
 
Captain Amazing said:
Telemark said:
Chessic Sense said:
Again, I didn't fare jump. My method of paying for it was just...backward. Had I fare-jumped, I wouldn't have had the conversation in the first place.
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As others have already said, you did fare jump. Just suck it up and accept the consequences of your actions.
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There weren't any consequences of his actions. He got an annoyed lecture from Metro Jamal, who then did exactly what Chessic Sense wanted him to do...let him go out, swipe his card to go in and then out again. He's just mad that Jamal lectured him for breaking the rules.
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Which makes him look even more pathetic. Gawd, man up, wuss. A minor tongue lashing from a metro employee isn't something to get upset about...unless you're a self absorbed pussy.
 
Bridget Burke said:
Captain Amazing said:
....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.
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DC Metro was Federally funded; we all paid for it, so we all have the right to use it. If we're smart enough to figure out the rules, that is.

Most tourist days start rather late--if commuters get annoyed, perhaps they ought to leave for work earlier.
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Then stand on the damn right and don't just stand in the way gaping. It's like these people never saw an escalator before.
 
Chessic Sense said:
That would be SmarTrip. One-time $5 fee, no more waiting in line. When it works, it's great. When it breaks, you end up dealing with the frightened-puppy tourists.
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I live in the DC area and I have about half a dozen smarttrip cards. I use them for friends when they come visit me (it helps them avoid dealing with frightened tourists).

Metro employees, on the other hand, know better. Someone gave them a 3'x20' little fiefdom and they'll be DAMNED if someone's going to fuck with them on their turf! At least the metro cops have badges and guns. The station workers just have neon vests and brooms. They're like those 40-year old employees at McDonald's- resentful, degraded, and looking for any opportunity to assert themselves just because they can, just to justify not having put a bullet in their skull the night before.
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Metro employees have always treated me with respect and been very helpful. I have in fact walked through turnstiles in the past and done exactly the same thing as you a dozen times and never gotten the lecture you got. Are you sure you didn't act all huffy or anything like that?
 
So I'm curious about exactly what the oft-quoted Metro employee hated about white people, Chessic. Care to expand upon that?
 
Chessic Sense said:
Oh yeah, that's a good point...

Wait, no. It's stupid. Because I DIDN'T get on at Vienna or Shady Grove or Frac-Spring. And I didn't take it the entire track. I end up paying the same price as I would have anyway. It makes absolutely no difference, money-wise, if I swipe in at my start station or the end station.
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And Jamal deals every day with assholes who did. How is he supposed to know you are a "lily-white, pure as the driven snow, honest commuter, who just had a small problem"? Oh, yeah, you were wearing a tie. And were arrogant. My mistake. Assholes never wear ties. And are never arrogant.

[We'll ignore the "white" part, because I think I've done enough to make my point, without getting into the "racism" the OP mentioned.]

Chessic Sense said:
Ravenman said:
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Chalk those up as four more "wins" for our fearless intern's effort to bend the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to his whim.
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Did you not notice all the comments where they call the blogger a tool and whatnot? And I'm not a fucking intern.
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No, Monica Lewinsky was a "fucking intern", or at least a "blowing intern". You're just an asshole. Wearing a tie. And acting arrogant. BFHD, why should Jamal care about your problem? Maybe if you try being polite to him, next time, instead of arrogant and condescending, you might get a better response. Just a protip....
 
Chessic Sense said:
If I had read this from someone else when I was living in Pittsburgh, I'da called "bullshit" too. But then I moved here. Hell, even backwoods Mississippi didn't have this much racial tension. I've been told by a lot of people that it's because of the vast income divide in this city. The Black population is significantly poorer than the White population which causes some class warfare. So fine, Metro employees, (some of) you want to play that way? At least I'm on the top, looking down.
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Why do you think Jamal is beneath you? Because you make more money? Because the Metro employees hold GEDs? Because you're not a ''hood rat''?

Yeah, I can't imagine why there would be any class warfare or racial tension.

Seriously, dude, the guy was doing his job. Your implication that he shouldn't take his job seriously because he makes less money than you is classist nonsense. Almost every single job in existence is a requirement to keep the world spinning 'round. Whether it's the guy slinging your burger or swiping your Metro card, he gets up every day and busts his ass to put food on the table just like you do, and he's not going to give you a fucking pass because you're a rich white guy. Personally, I'd rather be surrounded by employees who take their job too seriously than not seriously enough.
 
Drain Bead said:
So I'm curious about exactly what the oft-quoted Metro employee hated about white people, Chessic. Care to expand upon that?
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Can we petition to have the thread title changed? Because if the OP is this guy's better, why didn't he TELL HIM THAT? Tell the Metro guy to do as you say. Why tell us, oh lord of the manor?

Oh, I forgot...you're a wuss. You're not entitled to any better treatment than anyone else, and the idea that you think you are is sickening. (Not you Drain Bead, the OP). The fact that you actually thought "save it for the message board" makes you even more of a wuss. If you're so superior you shoulda put Jamal in his place, massa! What a douchebag.
 
Hmm. Is there a name for sentences that, upon being uttered, immediately establish the truth of their negation, like 'I am your better'?
 
I would like to know who Chessic considers to be better than him.
If I make more money than you, have more assets, am taller and stronger, am I your better?


Is the she penis hidden under folds of flesh or is it out there open to direct stimulation?
 
Chessic Sense said:
... I love it how pointing out obvious racist incidents make one racist. Apparently overhearing "That's what I hate about white people!" makes one racist. ...
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Chessic Sense said:
... I don't know that he was necessarily racist, but a lot of them are. I do recall an incident when one proclaimed "See? This is what I hate about White people!" I'm not really sure what that was about, as I wasn't a direct party to it. There have been other harder-to-prove incidences, and I never got around to Pitting them for it, so I figure I'll just lump them all together here. ....
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No, it's using one incident, in which one person said something that was probably racist and turning that into, in your own words "a lot of them are" and "I'll just lump them all together".

Which you continue to do here,
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... The whole Metro crew, on the other hand, is...questionable. There's the time the cops were stopping people for being drunk or whatever, 'cept it turned out that they were stopping a lot of White people. There was the employee who actually said out loud "See? This is what I hate about White people!" There was the cop who stopped me and started questioning me. "What's the stop for, officer?" "You said something under your breath." HUH? That's illegal now, is it? ...
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'Cause obviously the cops were only stopping White folks, couldn't be that the drunk folks that day happened to be largely White? Oh there's that "I hate Whitey" guy, again. (Third time's the charm?)
And the cop. I've walked past my fair share of cops (been pulled over and Terryed by more than my fair share) but never for something I said. Did get arrested that time I flipped a cop the bird.
One does have to wonder just what you said under your breath.
Chessic Sense said:
... That doesn't mean I think every one of them emcompasses all those characteristics. ...
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Reminds me of the scene in Twelve Angry Men when the racist ends his tirade about "those people" with "... some of them are OK, I'm the first one to say that ..."

CMC fnord!
 
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