Yeah but those ladeezh only lines soon morph into mixed gender lines and spoon fed feel ups after about, oh, 6:00 AM.

In mixed lines, I find that women can control the ‘tone’ of the line much better than men, because no one wants to pick a fight with a woman

No, they just want to rub up against us.

Try getting off the Delhi Metro…not only is everyone else trying to get off along with you, but you have to push against all the people trying to get in at the same time

The men look forward to that.

Crowded train stations in India are something that we women never look forward to. Never.

Is it rush hour in New York City? I sense a disturbance in the trust-force.

There is no doubt that there are many fundamental flaws in desi culture.

And really it’s not a the system that’s the problem, it’s the culture of the passengers.

So you have a resource, and more people want to access it than it’s equipped to serve. People get used to that, and this is explained as “culture” (i.e. I can’t be bothered to try to understand or explain this, so I’m going to give an essentialized explanation without any backup When it happens in Japan with people being pushed onto the train or in London at rush hour when British passiveaggressiveness gives way to aggressiveaggressiveness or in New York, is that culture as well? Deepseated tendencies of the people of the place explained through bizarre and overly complicated mechanisms? People are complicated, but not that complicated.

He probably concluded that Indians are a stupid and hopeless people. Most foreign visitors to India are shocked not only by the filth, poverty and crowds but also by the chaotic craziness on the roads, railways and bazaars. There is no doubt that there are many fundamental flaws in desi culture.

Partially this is because the grocery store is too small for the amount of people who come there to shop – but I’d imagine the larger part is culture. People aren’t even angry about this – no real angry pushes — they talk sweetly as they slip, slyly push and prod in front of you. I get so angry about that…just thinking about it makes my blood pressure go up.

Been breezing through this so perhaps I missed this somewhere but anyone ever addressed the desi jumping the line while not in India? Pure irony but while leaving the US Citizenship ceremony last year, a person of Indian heritage – also a brand new American like me, with Flag in hand – cut in front of several of us queuing up in front of the elevator to leave the building. His wife actually elbowed me out of the way just as I was about to step on to the elevator. Yah, the struggle continues.

This is rational behavior on her part. I am told there are no accurate models for multistrand elevator cable fracture mechanics and that this evades even the lift savants at Otis. So it is better to be on the Nth trip instead of the N+1 trip. Unless of course she body checked you to get on what turned out to be N+1 and dove headfirst out of this mortal coil and straight into Yama’s noose

I see your point in the first link here