A little subway etiquette would be nice.
Last night, as I was leaving the subway, carrying about eighty pounds of Christmas�gifts and�tired from a long day of sitting in my cubicle, a woman nearly pummeled me backwards down the stairs. She was moving against the flow of traffic—going down the stairs as the rush hour crowd made its exodus to street level—trying hopelessly to catch our train, which, and if she had any sense she would have known this, was long gone.
She pushed me out of her way, and I almost fell backwards into the guy behind me, who would have then fallen onto the woman behind him, and before she could’ve said “Excuse me” (which she wouldn’t have said anyway), a domino effect would have taken out hundreds of rush hour travellers. Luckily, I regained my balance, shot her a dirty look (which she didn’t notice because she was already gone), and I went on my way.
Yet another reason to leave New York.
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1 JVP31 // Dec 26, 2004 at 2:18 am
just stumbled across your site on the bush is not my president blogring. i got out of new york a little while ago, and you should, too. you’ll live longer. plus, that sort of thing might happen again, then someone might hurt that pretty face.
2 chicagoartgirl23 // Dec 27, 2004 at 3:53 pm
The other day, on the “El,” I poured onto the subway car with my fellow 9-5 salary whores. Although it was rush hour, there was a perfectly clean and sane looking woman sitting down on a seat, with her backpack occumpying the seat beside her. At first I found it aggitating that someone wouldn’t just tell her to move her bag and sit their ass down to clear out some space for the rest of us. While scowling at her and attempting convince her telapathically to move her crap, I finally noticed why no one would wanted to sit by her that evening. She had her fingers crossed, her eyes shut tight in prayer, and was mouthing the words, “please, please, please don’t sit by me.” Needless to say, it was a pretty good show and an effective to boot; no one sat next to her untill it was time for her grand exudus, which she conducted in a very, “I’m getting uooofffffffffff here,” type of way. Beautiful.