Crazy Subway Stories- Page 2

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 10:50am

Jinx, Rath.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 10:50am

It's a training camp, Rath.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 10:50am

Yep, Dollypop.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 10:51am

HA, Calvin!

And SOMMS - thank God for the reasonable explanation. Finally.

[robbiej]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 10:54am

Worse than the mariachi band on the 7 is the old, blind Italian guy playing the accordion on the N train. He just walks from car to car and people just dive out of the way. And, without fail, he always stops right in front of me to play...something. I'm not sure what.

This is what I get for moving to Queens.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 10:55am

"This is what I get for moving to Queens."

And for having the scent of an old, sighted Italian woman, apparently.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 10:56am

Robbie- LOL!

As someone who hops from the 7 to the N, I'm often transported from Tijuana to Krakow.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:06am

I was going downtown at like 10pm and none of the Metrocard machines were working (not cash, credit, anything). The attendant had a "Back in 5" sign up in their window and the train was pulling up, so some man let me use his card and I gave him $2. The man starts talking to me on the train; he's this crazy old Puerto Rican man with only 3 visible teeth and decides he's going to start teaching me to insult people in Spanish. I nodded and smiled from Times Square to Spring Street.

[shira467]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:09am

It's not crazy, but its annoying as hell.

The group of girls...who seem to think that they are the only one's in the subway train AND that everyone is deaf, because they are talking so loudly and raucously.

Worse is when its the same kind of girls and their just-born child, when the girls themselves are 16 or so.

But I go deaf at least twice a day.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:10am

shira, add to that the use of those EVIL walkie-talkie cellphones, so that everyone on the train can hear their mindless conversation.

[shira467]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:12am

Damn you, Nextel!

About the iPod earphones and such...if I can hear it across the train...how loud is it for them? Can they not hear the deep bass or something if its only 30 decibels?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:14am

Cheno, I was on my way to work once and this guy was having a walkie-talkie conversation with some girl. The entire bus listened as the two of them planned to hook up at his apartment that afternoon.

The worst part is the annoying chirp sound they make.

[shira467]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:15am

You should have told them you'd join 'em later for a threesome.

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:16am

On a related topic, take a look at these pearls of wisdom from a Houstonian blog regarding the stabbing the other day. Not the post, but the comments. They make the brilliant points that John Rocker was right all along and that Bernard Goetz was unfairly treated.


Yee-haw

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:18am

You know that if I said anything, the guy would have gotten indignant and told me to mind my own business.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:18am

orangeskittles- that chirp sound they make has caused a knee-jerk reaction in me. As soon as I hear it, I know I'm going to be annoyed by some idiotic conversation.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:22am

Oh yeah, I hate those stupid walkie-talkie phones. Why do they think we want to hear their conversations? WHY???

[YessicaB]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:24am

I think I made it on Overheard in NYC once. I was on the subway and this nice southern lady started chatting me up and asked me what I want to study and I told her acting. Tow hich she replied: Oh I'm sure we'll see you on Broadway one day...
Well apparently after I left she added : Yeah, right!

B**ch!

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:26am

LOL Yessica, that's classic. And definitely something you'd see on Overheard!

[Glebb]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:27am

In 1975 a girlfriend, her mother and I were going to the Bronx Zoo. We had a train car to ourselves until a guy came in and held a knife to us. We were freaked and when he threw up we ran out of the train and got a cab.

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:27am

That's the southern gentility, Yessica. Sweet as sugar -- until you leave the room.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:27am

Good Lord, Glebb!!







You had a girlfriend??

[once a month]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:28am

I honestly don't think these folks with the walkie-talkies care what any of us think. They're rude, inconsiderate SLOBS with an overstated sense of entitlement. I've even mentioned the volume to a woman on NJ Transit, and she just totally ignored me, and she was speaking English!

[YessicaB]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:28am

Wow Glebb...that's scary!

[lildogs]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:30am

I know that guy robbiej! He wears those horribly small shoes, plays The Godfather theme ONLY and says "Your contributions are greatly appreciated" in a think Kissinger-like accent...

I had a great morning buzz going on the L when an older black man was bumped by a young white girl--he began to LOUDLY berate her for bumping him, being a self-entitled white b!tch, and to taunt her for what was probably 20 minutes. So much for wake and bake.