How to save babies’ lives
As I was hurrying to get home from work today, this guy was completely holding up the line of people filing down the subway stairs. He had stopped on the way down to touch a deteriorating part of the ceiling and mutter “morons” to himself. I thought perhaps he had his definition wrong.
By the time I was seated in a pleasantly uncrowded F train car I had forgotten all about the guy. Then, just before the doors closed, he walked on to the car and took his place in the middle, where people usually go to beg for money for some reason or another.
This guy was different. He started off with something about how dangerous it was using MTA and pulled out a piece of the subway wall from some concealed spot to show that the subways were in disrepair. He shouted that someone (possibly a political figure, though I wasn’t familiar with the name) didn’t care. Then the best part: He held up the piece of wall to the ceiling of the subway car and told us to imagine if it fell on a little baby. [I would like to add that he told us that he pulled this wall piece from the L subway stop at some location I don’t recall; the only way it could fall on anyone is if he dropped it while vandalizing the station.]
And what has caused the subways to be in such a dangerous condition? Apparently, it’s the Daily News. He said something like, “If you want to save [money, right? No…] people’s lives [ha!], don’t buy the Daily News.” You meet all sorts of crazies on the subways of New York.
What makes this all the more entertaining is that on the street on the way home from my subway stop, I passed a guy handing out free copies of the Daily News. Influenced by the guy on the subway, I didn’t take a copy; that, or I just didn’t have an easy way to dispose of newspapers.
February 16th, 2006 at 1:24am
Ah, I finally figured out what the 0 comments problem was and fixed it…(after like 6 posts have already been affected). So from now on, your posts might actually show the number of comments. I switched you on a new comment spam catching system so just be wary a little to make sure that the good comments aren’t being marked as spam (it once marked my own comments as spam).
Also, I will comment on your posts for real when I get a chance!
February 16th, 2006 at 1:28am
Oh, thanks very much, Mike! I think Christina’s might have been having the same problem.
Take your time with commenting. I try to keep up with at least reading blogs, but even that is difficult. Besides, you recently went through Hell Week, right?
February 16th, 2006 at 9:04am
Heh. He sounds like quite the crazy.
February 16th, 2006 at 10:52am
Ricky, I appreciate the comment, but you should have been at lecture with me!
February 16th, 2006 at 4:38pm
Heh, that’s a pretty strange story. He pulled pieces off the walls? It’s sort of weird that I’ve become so accustomed to sitting quietly and ignoring whatever sad or crazy tirades people go on while riding the subway.