This afternoon I was attempting to head home and boarded a #7 train at Times Square (the first station). The conductor closed the doors and a douchebag put his arm in the door in my car so that he would force the conductor to open the doors and the douche could board the train. No go – the conductor refused to re-open the doors, just doing the quick open/close which resulted in the door slamming on the mans arm. The man continued to push his arm in further and further. After 9 minutes of this game of conductor vs. douche, a passenger got up, went to the door with the douche and started to push his arm out. Next thing I see is the douche now pushing both arms through the door to fight the man. Still the conductor hasn’t opened the door.

The entire incident took 12 minutes and the train motorman began to hit the horn over and over. I guess the douche didn’t realize that the #7 is the best subway line in the system and that waiting a mere 4 minutes another train would leave. Instead the douche backed up the system a decent bit.

Here’s a photo of the douche’s arm in the far end door.