Abnormalities of Life

I use public transportation every work day. On my travels I see all kinds. I see young and old, black and white, male and female, student and executive, and everything in between. You really get a sense of the diversity within the modern American City just by examining its train demographic.

Sadly, aside from the great sense of diversity, I'm also confronted with an even greater sense of stupidity nearly every day. Is it simple lack of coffee, improper training in etiquette, or just poor common sense? I'm not sure, but it needs to stop.

Attention vestibule standees: When exiting the warm confines of the train station lobby to enter the landing platform below, use the double doors for their intended use. Double doors are meant to allow multiple people to travel through a doorway simultaneously. This works especially well in opposing foot traffic circumstances.

So why now, does this translate into everyone waiting on their respective sides of the entry threshold and proceeding to introduce an "I go, you go" methodology for one of the doors while the other just acts like an easily movable glass wall? How heavy can that other door really be? Once moved, how much time--and patience-- would this save?

It is there for a reason. USE IT!