When I say suburbs, I am not including the downtown areas of these suburbs either.
I live in an urbanized area of a basic city here in the United States. (Phoenix, namely), I live in Downtown Proper. But sheesh, I feel like the suburbs are a brain drain for these people, who can't accomplish basic tasks like using a parking meter, or paying for a train ride.
For example, speaking of paying for the train/buses. We have an app you have to download, it will display a QR code, you scan it prior to every boarding. There are huge letters in the app that says "SCAN BEFORE BOARDING"....guess what? Every time I see one is un-scanned, it's from a suburbanite. (The scan before boarding goes away and the screen turns green after the first scan), They will try everything OTHER than scanning the barcode, like walking past the two little poles with scanners on them that say "Scan Mobile Barcode" on them. Or when getting on a bus, they try to show the QR code to the driver, rather than, seeing the pole in front of you that says "Scan Mobile Barcode" on them. If they buy physical tickets, they don't bother to validate them first by sticking it in the machine, they just think their passes are good after they bought them from the gas station or whatever. Oh let's not forget the ones who tried to buy two passes "one for the train" and "one for the bus"......THEY ARE THE SAME PASS, you would know that if you just turned the thing over. The app accepts Apple Pay, and many of them will try to use Apple Pay directly on the reader, but we don't do that here.
Okay, what if they decide to drive into the city? Surely they can master this right? WRONG. usually they stand there dumbfounded with how to use the credit card parking meter, or try to park and "run in somewhere for 15 minutes", and then have the audacity to get mad when they get a ticket for parking there and not paying the meter. Or when they try to exit one of the prepaid parking garages with signs all over that says to pay before you exit, or use a credit card to exit, they try to feed a machine cash that doesn't accept it at all (Cash users have to take their ticket to a pay station and get it validated). Don't even get me started on how many can't parallel park to save their lives.
Also when you do drive into the city, you can stay parked right there, and take the buses & trains to get around, that way you aren't forced to find a different parking spot each time. When I explain this to some people, they look at me like deer in the headlights.
As pedestrians? It can't be that hard to WALK around right? I mean most were born with this ability! They just don't care about their surroundings at all, and walk against all of the traffic lights right in front cars, not caring who they inconvenience. I don't care if people jaywalk, but FFS if there is a car already there with the green light and the right of way, you let the MF'n car pass through the intersection first! Oh also, if there are light rail/tram tracks in the middle of the road, DON'T STAND IN THE MIDDLE OF THEM!
Even worse is when I see them do it with a baby stroller, angers me to all hell that they just don't care and even put their baby who has no control themselves in danger.
What is it with all of this? Do the suburbs just drain your brain of all common sense? I never would ever want my kids to grow up in the suburbs! If this is how they behave with small little old Phoenix, Arizona, how the hell would they ever do New York City, or London??
/Rant Over.
P.S. If you do have to grow up in the suburbs, please do yourself a favor and try to visit the city more often and familiarize yourself with how things are done. Thanks. At the very least if you are going to ride public transit, visit the transit agency website and do a little reading first.
I live in an urbanized area of a basic city here in the United States. (Phoenix, namely), I live in Downtown Proper. But sheesh, I feel like the suburbs are a brain drain for these people, who can't accomplish basic tasks like using a parking meter, or paying for a train ride.
For example, speaking of paying for the train/buses. We have an app you have to download, it will display a QR code, you scan it prior to every boarding. There are huge letters in the app that says "SCAN BEFORE BOARDING"....guess what? Every time I see one is un-scanned, it's from a suburbanite. (The scan before boarding goes away and the screen turns green after the first scan), They will try everything OTHER than scanning the barcode, like walking past the two little poles with scanners on them that say "Scan Mobile Barcode" on them. Or when getting on a bus, they try to show the QR code to the driver, rather than, seeing the pole in front of you that says "Scan Mobile Barcode" on them. If they buy physical tickets, they don't bother to validate them first by sticking it in the machine, they just think their passes are good after they bought them from the gas station or whatever. Oh let's not forget the ones who tried to buy two passes "one for the train" and "one for the bus"......THEY ARE THE SAME PASS, you would know that if you just turned the thing over. The app accepts Apple Pay, and many of them will try to use Apple Pay directly on the reader, but we don't do that here.
Okay, what if they decide to drive into the city? Surely they can master this right? WRONG. usually they stand there dumbfounded with how to use the credit card parking meter, or try to park and "run in somewhere for 15 minutes", and then have the audacity to get mad when they get a ticket for parking there and not paying the meter. Or when they try to exit one of the prepaid parking garages with signs all over that says to pay before you exit, or use a credit card to exit, they try to feed a machine cash that doesn't accept it at all (Cash users have to take their ticket to a pay station and get it validated). Don't even get me started on how many can't parallel park to save their lives.
Also when you do drive into the city, you can stay parked right there, and take the buses & trains to get around, that way you aren't forced to find a different parking spot each time. When I explain this to some people, they look at me like deer in the headlights.
As pedestrians? It can't be that hard to WALK around right? I mean most were born with this ability! They just don't care about their surroundings at all, and walk against all of the traffic lights right in front cars, not caring who they inconvenience. I don't care if people jaywalk, but FFS if there is a car already there with the green light and the right of way, you let the MF'n car pass through the intersection first! Oh also, if there are light rail/tram tracks in the middle of the road, DON'T STAND IN THE MIDDLE OF THEM!
Even worse is when I see them do it with a baby stroller, angers me to all hell that they just don't care and even put their baby who has no control themselves in danger.
What is it with all of this? Do the suburbs just drain your brain of all common sense? I never would ever want my kids to grow up in the suburbs! If this is how they behave with small little old Phoenix, Arizona, how the hell would they ever do New York City, or London??
/Rant Over.
P.S. If you do have to grow up in the suburbs, please do yourself a favor and try to visit the city more often and familiarize yourself with how things are done. Thanks. At the very least if you are going to ride public transit, visit the transit agency website and do a little reading first.
