Public Transit.

If you live in a major metropolitan area (or especially if you are visiting one) you are likely to be taking public transit. To some this is one of the most unpleasant things one has to do in their day. Me, I don't mind, I just get a little annoyed with people. Here are a couple of ways to make your public transit experience better:

1. If you are not walking on an escalator, stand to the right. Likely there are people who ride the trains everyday who are trying to get to work, not the museum. This is especially true in a city like Washington, DC where every escalator on the Metro is two wide to allow standers and walkers. If you notice everyone else on the escalator is standing on the right, there is probably a reason.

2. If you are getting on to a bus or a train, let other people get off first. You are not going to miss your train, you are either going to get a seat or you aren't going to get a seat. In the grand design, taking an extra five seconds to get on the train is not going to matter. What you are going to do is slow down everyone, invade people's personal space even more than already happens on the train, and just make things more unpleasant for all.

3. If someone older or less firm than you needs a seat; give yours up.

4. Ride public transit. We are going to need it more and more as the price of oil rises. The more people who ride it, the more wide spread it will become, and the easier to use it will become.