I pushed a girl and I liked it (or a tale of non-process compliance in modern day society)

Yes, it sounds horrible but today I pushed a girl. 

She wasn't even a big girl, she was a small, Asian girl of tiny stature. But you know what? It felt good! 

Why?

Well there are rules in society - and rules are processes that we all follow. Some we are bound by (laws) and some are unspoken rules, like politeness and "doing the right thing".

In Sydney, on any train there is a rule that you must let all passengers alight from the train prior to boarding. Not only do Cityrail staff constantly remind customers of this, but it's just common sense and decency. So when I was walking off the train today (with a long queue of people behind me and in front of me getting off) I couldn't believe that this pip-squeak thought it was her right to barge onto the train right in front of me as I was trying to get off. I was so surprised I paused for a second to give her the opportunity to rectify her obvious mistake, but she continued to try to shove past me!

Big mistake. Let's just say that she received not only the most grumpy, oh-so not a morning person tongue lashing, but that she probably still has the imprint of my right shoulder festooned on her tasteless garb.

This person broke the rules; she tried to short-cut the process. And like any good process there have to be controls in place. Today I was happy to be that control!

Comments

[Brick Bradford]

When did you stop beating your wife? You raise a valid point, yet it comes across as so un-PC, the noise it generates may drown out the signal(content.)

[Ryan White]

You realise that this young slip of a lady could just be a 'process ninjarette'?

She may, after weeks of standing around watching the same old disembarkation, followed by hordes of people getting on have thought to herself; "right... time to shake up the status quo a bit here", and is trying to improve the process efficiency?

Perhaps she was trying to encourage some kind of new bi-directional, synchronous filter method that allows people to get on and off against the usual asynchronous flow?

Shame on you :) [for not giving her a dead-leg for being such a rude upstart!]

[The Process Ninja]

Ha! I'll take my chances...I would like to add that if it was a big beefy bloke I'd have done the same thing. Whoever breaks the rules will feel the wrath of the ninja!