Today I was going to my favourite client using the Metro here in Dubai.  It was busy being the end of the rush hour.  The train pulled in and on the arrivals platform the mass rushed the door as usual.  Of course being the rush hour there were also a whole heap of people who wanted to get off.

So gridlock ensues.  People can't get in or out. Everyone just stands there like selfish lemons going nowhere.

Except for the elderly Indian lady near the back of the morass trying to get off.   Elbows swinging and handbag swaying she plows through the inside mob and berates the idiots outside till they cower back a little to let her and a handful of others off.  And she held them just long enough for the policeman to arrive and clear the mob and let a few more people off.  Well most of them.

It's an automatic driverless system.  The doors closed.  Not everyone got off who wanted to.  No one at all got on at that doorway.  Including me.

I left the very annoyed Indian lady making her way down the escalator and the even more annoyed policeman handing out tickets.  I got on the next train.  When milder versions of the foregoing played themselves out again at every carriage.

I wonder why so many over here don't understand that sometimes self-interest dictates giving way to the other side?  It never ever happens in this culture.  Not in business; certainly not on the roads; and nor apparently on the Metro.

Bah...humanity.