I was all over the city today shopping and running errands. I experienced much public transportation irritation.
1 train at 191st Street. Watched six uptown trains pass, during which time not a single downtown train arrived. That's always bad news because when the train eventually shows up, it is occupied by approximately the population of Guam. As this one was.
Escalator from 59th Street station to outside Time Warner Center. Everyone on escalator, including myself, groans or curses the instant he or she is elevated to street level to see` that it’s pissing down rain. And I've forgotten my umbrella. Also, my belt, which I only realize as I try to dash between the drops and my pants start falling down.
Waiting for downtown A train at 59th Street. Jazz combo playing at one end of station, with bandleader playing saxophone. Lone, crazy saxophone guy playing at other end of station. For prewalking purposes, I was waiting directly between the competing instruments. Cacophony!
Uptown 3 train, running local, and stalled between the 59th and 50th Street stations. Stuck listening to jerk quoting to his girlfriend, at length, vaguely memorized passages from the LOLCat Bible, which he kept interjecting with, “I’m telling you, Stacey, it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever read.” Then he’d quote it some more and she’d laugh weakly. Dude, you repeating it isn’t the same as me reading it. It has its moments but it’s mostly a one-joke pony, like you, Mr. Excruciating.