Also, and I didn’t want to point this out because it unfairly characterizes the woman in the story, but there was an especially awkward moment seconds before that, after the woman in question had shoved herself to the front of a whole mass of people, myself included, who were happy to wait for the next train. She tried to get on, and the woman next to me politely said “There’s no room.”

But then another woman at the front of the crowd changed her mind and successfully squeezed herself into a small opening. The loud lady didn’t like that at all, and she shot everyone around her a look that said “Yeah, right, no room!”

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I definitely spent a moment trying and failing to come up with a polite way to say “Yeah, lady, but you could fit two of that tiny woman into the space you’d occupy.”