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elevators, busses
OK, regarding elevators, there just needs to be an understood rule for things to work. If an elevator is crowded and people in the back need to get off on an earlier floor than people toward the front, what do people do? They rearrange and possibly even get off the elevator to allow the people leaving the elevator to get out. There is a related rule that operates under the women-get-off-first* system: if the elevator is too crowded to comfortably rearrange within the elevator to allow women off first (and everyone, for the sake of argument, is getting off at the same floor, e.g. when going down at the end of the day), then blocking men get off and hold the edge of the elevator door as if they are holding open the door. This also gives them a good vantage point to see the women walk by.
Busses: the woman who was offended by the guy should have shoved over into the seat he was blocking with his rudely-held-open newspaper. I will try to remember this in the unlikely event I am ever on a bus or other public transport thingy that is crowded.
And New Yorkers are savages. Anyone who can't do something if asked instead of ordered is seriously fucked up. No offense. OK, offense.
*I love this system in so many contexts!
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