I also say "excuse me" and "could you move over" as I roll my eyes and then sit

I do this too. Of course, I have the added perk of giant fluffy petticoats and Looking Eccentric, so people on the bus usually make room for me very quickly.

Italian or Yiddish

I love this.

Of course, I grew up figuring that "Oy vey" was French, because it was my Memere I heard saying it.

On a completely different note (sort of), do people use the word "agita"?

I use it all the time!

I've never used the public transit here, despite living right by a station. It just doesn't go sensibly near where I'm going.

Public transit here is pretty stupid. People (at old job who didn't know b'more) were asking if I would be taking it to work and I had to explain how maybe there was a bus that went this way but otherwise I'd have to take light rail and a water taxi and it would take a good long time and cost quite a bit of money.

I will try to bike here sometime soon though.

The problem with talking to people is that sometimes they talk back. I'd much prefer a shoving match.

I saw a really scary shoving match the other day -- scary because it was on the stairs. Somehow the guy going down didn't completely wipe out.

Agita is a very useful word - I don't really use it, but I'm familiar with it.

I could write volumes on heinous behavior on public transit. The guys - and it is usually a man - who insist on taking up more than one seat. Last weekend I tried to sit next to a man who was aggravated that I was expecting him to content himself with two seats rather than three. The ones who take up two seats and most of the aisle to stretch their legs. The people - all ages, genders, who will occupy the preferential seating and refuse to let elderly people or those with an obvious physical problem sit there. The worst I saw was a woman who insisted on standing right at the front and refused to move, even when she was blocking a man in a wheelchair who wanted to get out. bleah. We also get tourons ... lots and lots of them, many of whom seem to have never: ridden on any kind of public transit; been in a city; used an escalator; crossed a busy street. argh.

Public transit here is pretty stupid.

Yup. It's too bad, though, that it doesn't make sense to have a water taxi ride in your commute. That'd be neat! Well, except in gusty weather.

I use agita, but ISTR Bob asking me what it meant recently. So I guess I don't use it enough.

I hate riding the Red Line past Wrigley if it's before or after a Cubs game. Lots of people who never take public transit, who won't move to the center of the train so others can get on. And they're often drunk. I recall the loud shriek and laughter of the drunk woman who was leaning against the doors when they opened....

I use "agita" all the time. It has sort of replaced "tsurris" in my vocabulary.