Ignoramus: The Sequel

So for the second day in a row I have experienced atrocious human behaviour on a train to work. Has the sudden onset of summer heat and humidity caused ppl to snap and revert back to selfish neanderthal behaviour? Here's the scene:

I'm standing up on the train near the doorway (not blocking it :p) and holding on to the handrail there. At Dutton Park on gets a woman with what I originally thought was a young girl. Unfortunately the young girl was blind and had a white cane to assist her mobility. After another glance it seemed she might not have been as young as I originally thought, but it's irrelevant to the story how old she is really... just remember diminutive, young, blind looking female being assisted by older woman.

They shuffle onto the train and stand in the middle of the standing area near the hand rail things from the roof. Those of you who know QR trains will know what I'm talking about, those who don't just use your imagination!

Anyway so after a few stations we arrive at South Brisbane and I'd heard that is where the young woman was getting off. Standing closer to the door to them and trying to be nice I reach out and grab the door handle to open the door for her. As I am doing this other people start arriving near the doorways to get off. The young blind woman takes a step and a half towards the door as the train slows with her cane out in front of her to guide her way. The train stops and the doors release, I'm still reaching across the doorway to turn the handle and allow her out.

Suddenly a young man that was standing just behind and to the right of the blind woman steps forward squeezing between me and her to get off the train when the doors begin to open, in the process completely cutting her off and forcing her older friend to half grab her to stop her from moving forward and running into him. What the hell was he thinking?!? It was obvious to anyone with eyes that I was trying to assist her off the train by opening the door for her but instead of allowing her to get off he pushes in front of her to get off first!!! WTF?!?!?

Other people mill around waiting to get off but she gets off relatively safely. She's then forced to stand at the top of the stairs going down from the platform while everyone else goes first and noone pauses to give her time to get a feel for the stairs and to start moving down. She was still standing there as the train pulled away...

I've had it with people. The next time I see poor behaviour like this I'm going to say something, and put some venom into it. In my defence I wasn't able to on this ocassion because I was so shocked that he did it, it happened so fast and he was off the train before I could say anything.

While we're on the topic of poor behaviour here's another example. Bee's friend lent her an old wheelchair of her Grandmothers to assist her while her leg is broken. We took it shopping @ Coles the other night and the number of times people pushed in front of Bee or cut her off was completely insane. When will people learn some courtesy and manners?!?