Don't you just love the folks who always have to make their exasperation known?

There are two parts to this email from Lori M. In part one, she observed our good friends the Triple Ds making an effort to reform by actually boarding trains from the correct platform. Sadly, it won't last.

In part two she outlines an annoying habit a few passengers have and that is to audibly announce their displeasure at someone or something by making grandiose gestures, posturing or sighing loudly.

Lori notes, "On the train coming home, someone or some people (I could never get a clear glimpse of the culprits) had some problem with "The doors are closing, stand clear of the doors" announcements. At every single stop after the announcement was made, an audible sigh could be heard. I felt like going up to whomever was doing this and telling them off. Repeated announcements can be annoying, but unfortunately, some people do not possess common sense and need to be told over and over.
But repeated announcements become even more annoying when some donkeys decide to let everyone else know they find it annoying. I personally dub this person(s) the door warning donkey or DWD."

I like it.

What it must look like to departure door donkeys

What are departure door donkeys aka Triple Ds?

Triple Ds are the impatient folks who jump the line by ignoring the assigned designated platform at Union Station for boarding trains and climb the stairs to the platform designated for people exiting trains.
Triple Ds cause platform congestion for incoming passengers making it difficult for them to reach stairwells and safely navigate the narrow platforms. It's a selfish practice.
Full definition here

Last Friday ... 3:13 PM LSE

The Departure board said Platform 8. Check out Platform 7. Triple Ds! (Know your meme!)

Some of these Triple Ds couldn't wait for the train to empty before rushing onto the train. The whole point of having people wait on one platform is so that people arriving don't have to fight a crowd of people when they get off on the opposite platform.

Screw this "I get a seat before you" crap. Why it so hard for some people to play by the rules? And if you're going to be a Triple D, at least let people off the train first before you charge the doors.

- Submitted

Departure Door Donkeys (Triple Ds) get what's due

Dakota writes:

I was on the 18:13 from Union tonight (Sunday). As usual there were departure door donkeys. The train arrived and the doors on the correct platform opened and the wrong platform did not. The Triple Ds were scrambling for the stairs. As they were about half way down the stairs, the departure doors suddenly opened and the Triple Ds raced back up to get on the train. They were complaining about the doors not opening.

I just laughed and laughed.

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Good. No one owes these clowns a damn thing. Besides, everyone needs exercise. Whaddya expect, you donkeys? Why do you all act so indignant when the doors on the platform not designated to open do exactly that? Follow the rules, everyone goes home happy. The end.

BUMPED: Triple Ds. Stair Blockers. Stair Pigs. Door Hogs. FIRST!

UPDATE
This post just went viral and I was asked by a GO employee (actually several) to bump it.
Consider it done.
Somewhere on Bay Street, there's a cubicle full of people who are greatly amused by the comments.
I just wish I was there with a chair that I could hoist over my head and chant, Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

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Ahh yes, the special 4:30pm LSE crowd. I don't take this train but I've heard lots about this party crowd. Karen writes:

I promised to take a photo of the FIRST gang on LSE 4:30. They stand on the departure side of the train, even though this is not an express and there are enough seats for everybody. They just like to be first on the first car, and first off the train. A few of these notables are also loud AND door blockers, getting up from their seats several stops before Oshawa.
So they get several awards.

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Oh boo hoo, they probably gonna get all mad and send me hate email. I'm gonna publish every single one. Word.

Imma take you out, you knitting psycho

Some of you may remember this jackrabbit, departure door donkey (DDD) from a previous post.

Be sure to get to know your TCT memes!

DDD(s) aka TripleD(s): People who wait on the departure platform to board trains before you while you wait on the actual designated platform. You know, these people (see pic). The ones standing on Platform 11 while people on Platform 12 obediently wait for the 5:20 LSE.

I got to ride with jackrabbit DDD again last night. She didn't recognize me. Most people who are filled with such a sense of entitlement often fail to realize there is a world outside of themselves. I also like to call her GO Commuter Bitch From Hell or GCBFH.

GCBFH was in the process of telling the whole train, regardless of whether anyone wanted to listen, how the doors didn't open on Platform 11. How she had to walk down and board on 12 (the platform the sign displayed). How GO goes out of its way to inconvenience its customers. How GO cancels trains, or puts trains out of service for no reason other than to piss off people who just got on the train and were all settled in... How the CSAs don't care about customer service on the express trains, or fail to mention which trains are express and on, and on, and on ...

I contemplated moving but figured I'd ride it out to see what psychotic tendencies she'd display tonight.

She did not fail to disappoint.

Our coach was one of the older models. The ones with the vinyl seats and barely any shocks left. We rocked and swayed our way along the LSE. GCBFH and her friend pulled out some knitting.

As the train swayed, GCBFH begin to cuss aloud at the GO conductor for his failure to "keep the train straight" and complained that it was impossible for her to concentrate on her knitting. With every shake, she'd suck in her breath and mutter.

As we pulled into Pickering, the train braked, because well, that's how it stops and she lost her mind exclaiming, "Does he have to brake so hard?"

After we pulled out of Pickering, two GO Constables showed up asking to check tickets. This woman was almost crying in frustration that her knitting wasn't going as planned. She was also incredibly rude to the GO Constable and actually muttered, loud enough for those of us near her to hear: "Don't you people have better things to do?" Or something to that affect. I began tapping my Presto card loudly against the side of my seat in annoyance.

She gives me this bitch look and asks me, just flat out - no excuse me - how my Presto card knows I paid the right fare. I told you bitch was crazy! I really didn't want to get into a Presto discussion with her. So I just shrugged and resumed tweeting about her on Twitter but she wouldn't let it go.

She asks me again, how the card knows I get on Union and get off at Oshawa. I did give her a brief explanation about tapping on and setting default trips but then her friend spoke up and told her the Presto reader used to check cards checks the fare. But GCBFH wasn't letting it go. "So what if you get off at Ajax but then decide to get off at Oshawa but your card is set for Ajax? How do they know that you're not getting off at Ajax?" This is where I'll give her credit. Even I couldn't answer that.

However, I wanted nothing more of this Presto talk so I resumed my tweeting and uploaded a photo of her knitting.

Now, being in my Twitter bubble, I hadn't quite tuned into the woman sitting a few quads away from me laughing at her iPhone. Visit my Twitter feed for more on this story.

Wish granted

643 LSE train rolls in on Platform 12 and over on Platform 11 stands some Departure Door Donkeys.
Guess which side the doors *don't* open for?
Ha ha.
But wait... What's this? One of the Triple Ds is angry.
She just got on and is mumbling about calling GO to complain because the 'asshole' didn't open the doors on Platform 11. Now she's saying there's 'something going on because the doors always open on 11'.
Funny. I'm telling you, she's furious.
She claims she glared at Mike (tonight's CSA) and told him that 'buses go to Courtice first, then to Bomanville' as she passed him through the accessibility coach to get to Platform 12. What does *that* mean?
It's been 15 minutes and she's talking to anyone who will listen to her about how tragic it was that the doors didn't open... Newsflash lady, you were on the WRONG platform!
You can shut up now. No, really you should.
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Okay, so you guys really *do* hate this

The people waiting on Platform 12 are waiting for the 5:20 pm LSE train to roll into Union.

The people on Platform 11 are also waiting for the 5:20 LSE train to roll into Union.

The problem with the people on Platform 11 is that they are not on the platform designated for boarding. Platform 11 is the side the doors will open for the arriving train so those getting off at Union don't have to wade through the people who will be boarding. This is done for safety. The platforms are too narrow and over-crowding is dangerous.

The people waiting on Platform 11 will be able to board the train before those waiting on Platform 12. This means they all get on the train first.

I wrote a post about my own departure door donkey (triple Ds!) episode.

It annoys people playing by the rules that others feel they are more important than them. How much you ask? I've got 27 emails in my in-box on this very topic!

I've read every single one of them but only one person mentioned anything about safety.