SF muni characters

I'm extremely glad I live in an area where I can take public transportation. My transportation costs are probably a quarter of what they would be if I had to drive. And while I may not live in a city forever, it has definitely made me want to stay in pedestrian-friendly towns with good transportation.

With that said, it's pretty easy to get frustrated by the SF Muni experience. I realize it's cliche to complain about it, but here it goes.

The people on SF Muni that make the experience oh-so-wonderful:

• The door blocker. When catching the muni underground, there are 5, sometimes 6, trains that stop there. They announce them over the loud speaker ("J in 3 minutes. N-N in 7 minutes"). Yet there is always the one person who feels they must stand right at the edge of the track where the train stops, even when their particular train is not arriving for 10 minutes. The result is that people have to practically shove them out of the way to get on their earlier-arriving train. And of course, the person blocking the door always gives the people who need to get on the train a dirty look.
  
• Kids that don't share seats. When you are lucky enough to catch the "school bus" tram (one that is loaded with junior high and high school kids on the way to school in the morning), chances are that each kid is taking up 2 seats each. Granted, they always move when someone asks to sit down next to them, but not without obvious annoyance.
  
• The impatient driver. I try not to rip on the muni drivers. They have a very stressful job and deal with complete jerk riders on a daily basis. And a lot of them are surprisingly cheerful and funny despite that. But there is one behavior that really irks me. This is when the driver tries to close the doors when there's still 10 people trying to get on or off the train. When the people pull the doors back open, the driver closes them again. And so it repeats. I understand the drivers need to stick to a schedule, but when there's a line 10 people deep trying to get off the train, it's not like the riders are lollygagging around.
  
• The impatient rider. This might be a result of the impatient driver. This is the person who tries to get to the exit door 2 minutes before the train actually stops, presumably because they are afraid they won't be able to get off the train in time. This isn't so bad, except that when the train is completely packed, this means trying to shove their way through a large crowd, half of which are probably going to get off at the same stop anyway. The result is just a lot of unnecessary pushing and shoving.