Entitled woman blames subway passenger for missing her stop because he allegedly obstructed her exit, but her distracted state is actually to blame: ‘Instead of letting it go, she started talking out loud to everyone on the train’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Aug 30, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Public transportation is the perfect place to zone out with some music, a good book, or your favorite crossword puzzle. If you choose to do any distracting tasks on your subway ride, however, you can't get mad if your 20-minute vacation to Lalaland has caused you to miss your stop.

An entitled subway passenger blames a fellow passenger for missing her subway stop, but the innocent passenger refuses to accept it. Given the amount of time between the ding of the "doors closing" notification and her late reaction, she would not have been able to make it out of the train cart. So, instead of accepting defeat, she insists that the innocent passenger "obstructed" her exit, and makes it everyone's problem until the next stop on the train.

Born and raised in New York City, I know how annoying it can be to ride with impolite passengers on the subway. Nobody moves out of the way when you're trying to exit, and everyone insists that they deserve the door space so they can get easy access out of the cart. Train etiquette is real, but so is being too distracted. If you miss your stop because you didn't pay attention, laugh it off and figure it out—don't make it another passenger's problem. Scroll to read the full story.

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  • Canarsie Local "She realized right when the train made the sound that tells you that the doors are closing, and tried to run to the exit." Llame -743-4
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  • "Woman Blames Innocent Passenger for Missing Her Subway Stop"

    I was on a subway train heading home from work the other day. The train was filled, but not crowded. Most seats were full, and a couple of people were standing. There was plenty of room to walk around the train.
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  • One of those people standing was a guy, I assume early 20s. There was also a woman sitting in one of the seats, probably in her
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  • 30s. The guy was standing between her and the doors, but not blocking it at all. He was standing in a way that you
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  • couldn't go to the exit in a straight line, but there was still plenty of space to walk around him.
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  • The train reached the woman's stop, but she didn't react, probably because she was distracted. She realized right
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  • when the train made the sound that tells you that the doors are closing, and tried to run to the exit. As she ran, she yelled
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  • "excuse me, excuse me, excuse me" to the guy standing, and he had no time to react. The doors of course closed before she got
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  • to them. Keep in mind, there was no way that she would have gotten to the doors in time even if she didn't have to walk around the guy.
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  • Instead of letting it go, she started talking out loud to everyone on the train how this guy wouldn't move for her, how
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  • she was saying "excuse me" and that he made her miss her stop. And she kept repeating that stuff until she got off at the next stop,
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  • "oh I totally didn't just make a fool of myself by getting distracted and missing my stop, it's all his fault."
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  • Nobody else really did or said anything, I am assuming that people saw through this, because god forbid you have to walk an extra few steps in a path that's not really obstructed.
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  • Latter_Branch9565 She is not entitled, she is dumb
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  • Spare-Hotel-1677 Yeah, and she just wasnt able to stop and think "hm, maybe i did something wrong"
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  • Fit_Marionberry_3008 Self-justification. You can actively hear them gaslighting themselves into believing it's not their fault cuz it couldn't be their fault. Sigh
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  • b er6 I would have just asked her that, even if I was to blame for her missing her stop, why would she think I would give a ?
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  • Acruss_ Why didn't you say anything, OP?
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  • Spare-Hotel-1677 I was pretty tired after work and thought that arguing with someone like her wouldn't change a thing. So taking her behaviour into consideration, it possibly could've made her get even louder, which wouldve annoyed the people around even more.
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  • DadChicken25 Everyone else on the train knew she was wrong, because they wouldn't have missed their stop. Her performance likely fell on deaf ears.
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