The phenomenon whereby the journey of a whole group is spoiled by the thoughtlessness of one individual.
Behaviours include but are not limited to - excessive and indiscriminate MP3 player use. Standing in a carriage doorway and not stepping off or moving aside. Barging onto a carriage as others are exiting. Stopping dead at the bottom of an escalator. Carrying extraordinary amounts of luggage in peak periods. Travelling in huge rustling packs, their vile neon coloured cagoules shedding static like a thunderstorm. Throwing themselves in front of trains in peak time. Bastards the lot of them.
Sufferers of IPS can be encountered on any mass transit system but the London Underground (see Hell) is particularly prone to the depradations of IPS sufferers.
"...and then this complete Idiot Passenger Syndrome got on and stood right in the doorway for two stops. I think he was listening to Craig David. What a wanker. I had to hit him in the balls with my bag just to make him move out of the way."
The Passenger Seat Hijack is when a dude masterbates in the passenger seat of a form of transportation (car, van, airplane, etc.) while the rest of that vehicle is occupied by others. The "hijacker" then yells "jack, jacking, or jacked" as to let the crew members, and other passengers that they are experiencing a passenger seat hijack.
Bro 1: Dude how wasted did we get last night? Did Ryan really pull Passenger Seat Hijack on Christy's car?
Bro 2: Yea bro....Ryan was so hammered with his pants around his ankles and yellin "JACK! JACK! JACK!" while strokin his sausage in the passenger seat.
Bro 1: That dude's got issues. I'm never drinking with him again.
Bro 2: Tru.
When you are in the passenger seat next to a friend/family member on the way back from getting takeaways from a drive-through, and you slowly start consuming the contents of the bags/packaging on your lap, i.e. chips, drinks.
Dude 1: Holy crap, by the time we got back from McDonalds last night, Jason had eaten the whole fucking bag of fries.
The feeling you get when you're riding in a vehicle someone else is driving, where time loses all meaning and before you know it you've arrived at your final destination.
Passenger Syndrome can also be used for when one is going through the motions and not being aware of the life events happening around them.
Honey: Candy, you've got to focus! The show's about to start! Why don't you have your tassels on yet?
Candy: Sorry Honey, I feel lost in the shuffle. One minute I'm getting on the train to the club, the next minute it's showtime.
Honey: Do you need someone to talk to?
Candy: No, I guess it's just the Passenger Syndrome doing its thing again.
A door wall is a sliding-glass door or patio door. The term is yet another example of banal Michigan vernacular, where in the residents latch on to company names, trademark names, marketing terms and product names from local companies. The terms become embedded in the local vocabulary and eventually become accepted as actual valid words and phrases. In this case the term comes from Wallside Windows in Taylor, MI (a large window manufacturer), where 'door wall' is their created word for sliding-glass door.
"Bob! John's gonna bring over them doorwalls from Wallsides on Tuesdee afternoon 'round two-thirty. Get 'er done!"
The measure of an emotional and over zealous consumer in an upwardly charging market, also known as a bull market. It's characterized by rising asset prices, increased investor confidence, and favorable growth in the markets, bro.
The frothability was evident as over-zealous consumers eagerly engaged in bidding wars, drivingproperty prices to unsustainable levels reminiscent of previous speculative bubbles.
A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.
"That guy's a souldigger. He'll expect you to work full time, but you'll be doing all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and childcare while he plays video games or watches TV."
A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
A dead drop is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.
Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide the items and to signal that the drop has been made. Drug dealers use this as well.
A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.
A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
"The dead drop is the restroom toilet at the Gulf station at the corner of Commercial Ave. and Georges Rd."