I Hate Nazis

[4X4]

This may appear to be just another pet peeve thread, but I am specifically talking about people that have a tiny bit of power that they abuse just to feel better about their sorry existance.


The Door Nazi description:

The busses in Rome are equipped with 3 or 4 doors. Not your regular Calgary Transit busses with a mere 2.
The busses in Rome were originally designed for people to enter from the front and back of the bus, and exit at the middle. In other words, your mission once on the bus, is to make your way to the middle of the bus before your stop arrives.
Nice in theory, not very do-able in real life. Busses get very full, and quite often there are people in wheelchairs or really old people that have neither the grace nor mobility to navigate a packed, moving bus.

Door Nazis are drivers that completely disregard this fact and refuse to open end doors at stops that have nobody getting on the bus.


My story:

The day of the metro crash, the trains stopped running on the red line. Busses were even more packed than usual. It was about 10 pm, and I was jammed against the back door of a bus that generally commutes people to the suburbs. Very few people get on this bus once it leaves the central station... Pretty much people just getting off the bus all the way down the line.

I rang the bell for my stop, and the driver only opened the two central doors. In my poor italian, I yelled to the driver to open the back door and was ignored.
At the next stop, I yelled again, as did a sweet little old lady who was well versed in italian swear words.
By the third stop, I was pretty ****ed off, and decided to open the door myself.
The people around me pushed back to make room for me to go haywire on the door by pulling the inside handle like a mental patient trying to escape an asylum.

I got the thing open and was helping the old lady off the bus (really, really old) when the bus driver started yelling from the front. The old lady handled it for me with a blue streak of curses, and the two of us had a little laugh after the bus pulled away (which was a good 30 seconds, as the door wouldn't close properly for a few tries).


****in Nazis. I hate them.
I feel better now.

[HOZ]

Originally Posted by 4X4

This may appear to be just another pet peeve thread, but I am specifically talking about people that have a tiny bit of power that they abuse just to feel better about their sorry existance.


The Door Nazi description:

The busses in Rome are equipped with 3 or 4 doors. Not your regular Calgary Transit busses with a mere 2.
The busses in Rome were originally designed for people to enter from the front and back of the bus, and exit at the middle. In other words, your mission once on the bus, is to make your way to the middle of the bus before your stop arrives.
Nice in theory, not very do-able in real life. Busses get very full, and quite often there are people in wheelchairs or really old people that have neither the grace nor mobility to navigate a packed, moving bus.

Door Nazis are drivers that completely disregard this fact and refuse to open end doors at stops that have nobody getting on the bus.


My story:

The day of the metro crash, the trains stopped running on the red line. Busses were even more packed than usual. It was about 10 pm, and I was jammed against the back door of a bus that generally commutes people to the suburbs. Very few people get on this bus once it leaves the central station... Pretty much people just getting off the bus all the way down the line.

I rang the bell for my stop, and the driver only opened the two central doors. In my poor italian, I yelled to the driver to open the back door and was ignored.
At the next stop, I yelled again, as did a sweet little old lady who was well versed in italian swear words.
By the third stop, I was pretty ****ed off, and decided to open the door myself.
The people around me pushed back to make room for me to go haywire on the door by pulling the inside handle like a mental patient trying to escape an asylum.

I got the thing open and was helping the old lady off the bus (really, really old) when the bus driver started yelling from the front. The old lady handled it for me with a blue streak of curses, and the two of us had a little laugh after the bus pulled away (which was a good 30 seconds, as the door wouldn't close properly for a few tries).


****in Nazis. I hate them.
I feel better now.

Go Old Lady GO!!!!

[Barnes]

I would like to see a pic of these buses. Not understanding how they can have 4 doors.

[kermitology]

I thought the Italians were the fascists...

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Barnes

I would like to see a pic of these buses. Not understanding how they can have 4 doors.

If I had a guess it is a double long bus.

[rockstar]

No door for you!

But seriously, you live 15 feet from where you work, are you THAT lazy?

[4X4]

Hey there Evan... I don't know who (in your group) reads this site, so I'll refrain from saying anything incriminating about what you did during your stay in my hostel.

Don't embellish things. I live a block and a half away. That's quite a hike.
Actually, we picked up another hostel over by termini... It's actually in front of the metro stop that had that big crash last week.



Barnes: The busses seem to be just a bit longer than the busses in calgary. They have 3 doors on the regular busses. The whole machine is a low floor and there is almost no seating. They are like those transporters you take at the airport when your plane is far away. Just a big empty box with lots of bars and poles and a few seats. Plenty of space for doors.

There are also the accordian style busses. They have 4 doors. It was on one of those ****ers that all this happened.




As for you, Kermitology... I know you're joking, but what you say is not far from truth. It seems that there are two ways to lean here: communist or facist. I think that us north americans were taught that those words were a little dirty. Here, they aren't.
Actually, I think the communist party won the last election.


But none of this changes the fact that I hate people that abuse their tiny bit of power. Small man syndrome if you ask me.

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by fotze

What/who did Evan do? and Who is Evan?

Evan must be Rockstar since he is claiming he only lives 15 feet from work.