Bantamzen
Established Member
Not "weird" as such, but I've noticed that as a species we're bewilderingly inefficient at getting on and off trains and through barriers. The amount of dithering and faffing about still amazes me after many years of commuting. I think we should have "efficient passenger" and "inefficient passenger" services and barriers, with a stringent assessment process to officially certify each passenger's efficiency. Inefficient passengers can be consigned to their allotted rubbish services, where they can faff about as much as they like. An exemption can be made for disabled passengers, as the certified efficient passengers should be sufficiently efficient to accommodate them.
Actually, let's do the same thing for cash machines and supermarket checkouts too, as I suspect it's the same culprits.
And to expand on this, you may notice a ripple effect when one passenger struggles to use one gate. It can go from dozens of passengers passing through without issue, to one "faffer" flapping around unable to scan their ticket / card, which then leads to many more behind suddenly losing the ability to use any of the the and herd up behind one another trying to attract the attention of gateline staff, whilst some of us pass gracefully* through the barriers they are now ignoring....
(* I say gracefully but whenever I come across the herds of panicked commuters I have a tendency to pass by with more of an annoyed ambience than graceful)