Rule breakers
We don’t mean people who break the law, just those who make life difficult for themselves and others by not using common sense and following simple directions.
For example:
- entering a station through the exit door, getting in the way of people leaving, slowing their progress and causing a dangerous situation, or leaving a bus through the front door and stopping others getting on.
- dropping litter
- going in the wrong door in theatres etc and then pushing past a whole row of people to get to the right place
- sitting in the wrong place
- standing on the left on an escalator
- smoking in no smoking spots
- holding tube doors open or blocking tube doors
- riding bikes on pavements
- jaywalking or misusing crossings
- people using phones etc in concerts or theatre or talking even during a film. You have the whole of the rest of your life to do that…
Queue jumpers
Getting on a plane? Boarding by zone? Go at the correct time.
Getting on a train? Let the passengers off first.
Entering a theatre? Join the line.
These kinds of rules are there to make the process easier, at least in theory (we have issues with the plane thing). Mostly, they are sensible. Let the passengers off first makes more room for people getting on.
Blocking the door of eg a train just causes delay. Doing that and then getting off last is just stupid. Holding the door open for other people causes delay and can get the train taken out of service.