Seriously. I could give a fuck what color it is or what it looks like on camera. Just get it into my bloodstream please and thank you.

I’d donate towards that.

JFC. Yeah I’ve seen that one, but this one was JUST about backpacks. I have literally told everyone of my friends that if I will the lottery I will put someone of the money towards a profane anti backpack campaign for BART.

I have seen far too many spilled coffees and left behind coffee cups on transit.

On the way home once a gentleman sat down, opened up his styrofoam container of fried chicken, proceeded to eat it messily with both hands, then wrapped his greasy chicken-smeared hand around a pole to heft himself up out of his seat in order to leave.

None food. None is ok. Eat before or eat after. Drink some water or juice or something if you’re feeling peckish to stave off the hunger if need be. Don’t make a mess. Don’t gulp loudly.

Riding the CTA in Chicago, I once saw a man eat a bag of chicken FEET, sucking out the marrow and tossing the foot on the ground. So disgusting.

This is also very true and right of you to point out. But then we should be striving to change the actual critical unfair labour practises of not providing breaks, then.

I just finally saw a backpack PSA yesterday and I am thrilled and will loudly point at it when some asshole is smacking me in the face with his completely unnecessary Herschels bag.

BART has turned me into a bit of a germaphobe. I always have to have hand sanitizer in my purse.

This got so much worse than the “eugh, guy on the subway drinking from a small bottle of milk that you can buy from any convenience store” story I was expecting.

I was once on a bus and a woman had a travel coffee mug clipped to her backpack with a carabiner (yes, in northern California). It was leaking hot milky coffee all over the place, including in another much-too-polite passenger’s lap. Someone alerted the coffee-spiller, and she just kind of shrugged.

Even the Belgians are ashamed of her.

The most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen in my life occurred on the Metro in DC. Note that during my years riding the Metro, I saw and smelled every body fluid imaginable, people in every imaginable state of undress, etc., you know...the usual for a subway system. But all of that paled in comparison to the Milk…

You’ll definitely need a spill-proof container, though, or you’re risking a significant faux-pas in the form of OMG YOU JUST DOUSED ME IN UNSOLICITED LIQUID.

Every time I see someone standing on the train with a drink, I just assume it’s going to get spilled. I’m ok with bottled water, beyond that...no.

I’ll accept it. Please absolve yourself of any guilt. Headaches are terrible.

This whole discussion surprises me because the only subway I regularly ride is BART, where all food and drink is banned, and I assumed this was standard subway policy, though I’m not sure this is frequently enforced (I have accidentally carried a drink into the station once or twice without thinking about it).

BART has a no food, no drink rule...that no one follows. But it would be awesome if they did. I don’t need to smell you BBQ, or curry, or Chinese food, or your McDonald’s. I also don’t want you to spill your fucking coffee all over me, because you don’t know how to balance yourself on the train. It’s gross enough as…

Unless you are diabetic, you do not ‘need’ to eat on the subway, nor do you ‘need’ quick protein.