Mailbag: What to Do With an Eater on Metro
IT'S EARLY MORNING. You walk onto a Metro train to start the daily slog to work. You're sleepy. Maybe a little hungry. And then, you hear the distinctive sound of someone doing the verboten: Eating on a Metrorail car.
It's just this kind of situation that a reader named Su e-mailed us about. Here's Su's story:
I was taking the Metro last week and as soon as I entered, I found two ladies and a man eating their breakfast from Dunkin Donuts. It was very disturbing, since Metro riders aren't used to seeing anybody eating inside the Metro.Should Su have left well enough alone or made some move to stop it? And what would the giant rats on Metro's anti-eating posters (like the one pictured here) think?Every person that walked in would double check them, because they were loud too, but no one said anything.
What should I have done?
We put the question to Metro public relations director Lisa Farbstein.
"The best thing to do is to report it to a Metro employee," Farbstein replied via e-mail. "In a station, contact the station manager. In a train, move to another car, press the intercom and tell the train operator."
So there's some food for thought. Just don't eat it on Metro.
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By unitacx , Posted May 17, 2008 11:13 PMBook 'em. FREDTERP
By FREDTERP , Posted April 25, 2008 2:03 PMThis also depends whether the person was in DC when eating the donut. According to This, a passenger in Virginia has an absolute right to eat or drink on the subway. Apparently Metro never got the Virginia legislature (the poster calls it the House of Burgeses) to enable metro to make up coffee rules.