NYC transit strike? PLEASE COMPLAIN HERE:- Page 2

[shermanslave]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:47pm

cheesey, I usually don't stand on the platform and fume. I know there is always another train coming, but doesn't that just seem like they do it for the sheer as*hole-ness of it? It's mean, I tell you. Mean and spitful.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:50pm

I have to confess to standing on the platform and fuming, and it usually involves various obscenities.

I'm also a generally impatient person.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:50pm

No, they probably don't. I doubt they have these problems in Peoria, either

[shermanslave]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:53pm

I wonder how much car insurance is in Peoria...

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:55pm

If I see a traing pulling up across the platform, I'm the first to hold the doors, and make the train six seconds late, so that everyone on the arriving train don't have to wait for another ten minutes.

Maybe that's wrong of me, but I feel like it is karmic good.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:55pm

However cheap it is, it's not worth living in Peoria.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:56pm

While they're at it, the MTA needs to add more trains. The overcrowding is becoming unbearable.

And what is with the N/R? It acts like it's doing you a f***ing favour by finally showing up.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:59pm

Gurl, do not get me STARTED on the N/R. And how about the goddamn D? Did I miss a memo, or is "Express" actually Farsi for "This bitch gon' take an hour to go seven stops"?

[robbiej]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:02pm

Not too long ago, I was stuck on the N train at a station in Queens, trying to get to work in the morning. We didn't move for a good 10 minutes. All they kept saying was, 'We are being held at the station.' That's it...not giving anyone any more information so as to make a decision on how to get to work. Finally, I leave the car and start to make my way to the steps. There's a conductor hanging out the window and I asked him, 'Where's the closest other subway to here?' His answer: 'I don't know...I only work on the N line so I only know the N line.' I was incredulous. I go down to the booth manager and asked him if there's a bus nearby. He said yes and I asked where it would take me. He didn't know. I was shocked. I decided to walk the two stations (a good 15 minute walk) to take another train (by the way, I beat the first train there). As I passed the R station, an MTA worker was standing outside. I figured he was there to pass along information. When one of the people I was walking with asked if the trains were stalled in the R station, he shrugged and said he didn't know. This was the first of three similar incidents in the span of 4 weeks.

Yes...I was furious at the inconvenience. But what truly startled me was the realization that these people...who refuse to know more than they ABSOLUTELY NEED TO are the very same people we need to rely on when a terrorist attack on the subway occurs. So everyone can say that we're just bitching and to chill out and sh*t, but, fact is, I don't get on a subway without wondering if today is the day that we're attacked again. And the fact that we have to depend on these incompetents is aboslutely horrifying.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:03pm

Have we ever discussed how you're my new BFF?

[mabel]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:04pm

I usually don't stand on the platform and fume. I know there is always another train coming, but doesn't that just seem like they do it for the sheer as*hole-ness of it? It's mean, I tell you. Mean and spitful.

I agree! It does strike me as unnecessary and asShole-ish of them! And depending on what train you're waiting for, it's not necessarily going to be a 5-10 minute wait, cheezedoodle. If I'm on an A and I see a C that I need to catch waiting across the platform, only to pull out as the doors to the A are opening, I'm going to be livid and fume to myself on the platform. I'll continue fuming as 3 Es come (10 minutes apart) and another 4 As come behind me, thinking I could have been where I needed to be over 1/2 hour ago, had they just waited another 20 seconds for the people to transfer. Maybe I just have terribly luck with it, but I have never had a smooth ride on the A,C,E (especially if I have to transfer). Oh wait, I did have ridiculously good train karma taking an A that came just as I got down the stairs, transferring to a C that came moments after I got off to transfer...the ONE TIME I planned ahead and left 30+ minutes early to allow time to deal with all the line's nonsense!

/rant.

[Craig]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:04pm

apparently their information is on a need to know basis..

is that to defend against plausible deniability? lol

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:10pm

In case this is a help to anyone, the PATH train in the city does travel from Excange Place up to 33st. This will shorten my walking distance to work a bit-now I'll only have to walk about one mile instead of two.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:13pm

"And how about the goddamn D? Did I miss a memo, or is "Express" actually Farsi for "This bitch gon' take an hour to go seven stops"?"

I almost missed Meryl Streep in "The Seagull" over this line. It shouldn't take an hour to get from West 4th Street to West 81st Street, but it did. I arrived at West 81 Street at 7:55 and ran like my life depended on it to the Delacorte Theater. I was sitting in front of McCauley Caulkin who probably thought I was a crazed fan because I was out of breath and sweating profusely.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:16pm

Oh, I'm sure McCauley Caulkin was sweating profusely, too. That was around the time he was in rehab #4.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:20pm

"Oh, I'm sure McCauley Caulkin was sweating profusely, too."

Well he did bring flowers for Natalie Portman.

[shermanslave]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:23pm

Since we are really bitching here, what about the people (usually older women of a certain ethnic background but that would be a stereotype so I won't go into that any further) who cannot wait to get on the train so they force themselves on it despite the 15 or 20 people who are trying to get off of the same train? Drives me nuts. Especially when the train is at it's last stop (7 train at Times Square) and everyone is getting off. The whole car will be empty in about 15 seconds, but they push themselves on as soon as the doors open. I am so over it that now when I get off a train, I just extend my elbows out and push through anyone who can't step aside to let me off. Young, old, male, female I don't care. If you can't just let me off before you try to get on, I WILL knock you over and not say sorry.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:25pm

sherman, I do exactly the same thing. I think it is not only appropriate behavior, but the kindest possible thing you can do.

[robbiej]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:29pm

SHERMAN!!!!

Ain't it the truth! I've never seen anything like it...that 7 train can be brutal! Those little women with plastic bags full of food which stinks up the car...and this is at 9am!

They're a vicious subset of their particular ethnic group whom I have NO PROBLEM knocking down!

[shermanslave]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:38pm

ah ah! so you know these woman of whom I speak. Bags of food that stink is the dead giveway. I can spot a mile away. My boyfriend and I sometimes like to pick out which ones will do that before the train even gets there. One time, I saw one about to do it, so I got right next to her and did the same thing. There was one seat and I knew she was going to go for it, so I stayed right on her. I pushed my way in and we sat in the same one seat at the same time and she would not give it up. I was just doing it to make my boyfriend laugh. Our butts were pushed together in that one seat for a few beats. I just started laughing and got up, but she was probably thinking "see this is why I must be so forceful for seat. I win seat! Ah-so."

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:46pm

"ah ah! so you know these woman of whom I speak."

There are other groups that do this too. I have seen many Star Jones wanna-be's pull this same stunt. They don't have speed, so they use their weight to push through the door.

[shermanslave]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:48pm

right? and then they will put their size 18 butt in the seat that barely has room for a child.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:55pm

"and then they will put their size 18 butt in the seat that barely has room for a child."

Child nothing. The MTA did a study using Kristin Chenoweth as the average human being and when even she couldn't fit into a seat, they said it was perfect.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 4:56pm

LOL! It's nice to know there are others who suffer the wrath of the 7 Train, or the POC as I call it (People of Colour Train).

And I know exactly what you guys are talking about. Sherman, I cannot STAND people who shove onto a crowded train as others are trying to get off. They act like it's musical chairs and they're going to be left without a seat.

Also, people with 15 HUGE shopping bags who take up about 4 seats.

Since we're really ranting- and i've said this before- people, stop being cute with your ringtones! I do not need to hear Beethoven's 5th on a phone ringtone.

Nor do I need a Mariachi Band/Battery Salesman at 7am.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 5:00pm

Or people who insist on reading the newspaper fully open at arm's length.