oh the subway
I am definitely not one of those females that sits around and bemoans the end of chivalry, wishing that men would start opening doors and throwing down their coats again. I do, however, expect some level of politeness from males in one area....subway seating. For the record, I do not expect a man who is already seated to give up his seat for me. I am not elderly nor do I have some sort of outwardly visible physical impairment that woud indicate that I should get preferential seating. I do however expect that when I enter the subway car a man not practically shove me to the ground in his attempt to secure the last remaining seat in the car...which is what happened to me this morning.I leave for work much earlier than most New Yorkers...I'm usually at my desk at 7 a.m. I feel that one of the privileges of leaving this early is that I get to sit down on the subway. Normally I don't really care if I get a seat or not but in the mornings I haven't had any coffee yet, and I like to sit down and read my book. This morning, for some reason, the train was pretty full. The doors opened and no one got off but there was a seat directly in front of me. I take a step toward it when some douchebag guy practically knocks me over and shoves himself into the tiny seat. The guy was wearing a ski jacket, ski gloves and had ski goggles pushed up on his head...um, get over yourself, we don't live in Park City Utah...there is no chance that in the middle of the day you're going to leave your office for a quick run, so stop it with the whole "I'm cool..I'm a skiier routine." Also, this guy was carrying a Razor scooter...I can't even add anything to that. He looked ridiculous. After he almost pushed me down he immediately opened his AM New York, the finest of all free morning newspapers, and refused to make eye contact with me even though I was shooting him daggers the entire time. There was a very nice man sitting next to him however who saw how pissed I was and stood up so that I could sit. I thanked him very loudly and would like to thank him again now.....Thanks guy in the green sweater and jeans on the N train this morning...that was very nice of you to give up your seat next to the asshole with the Razor scooter.
Also, as requested by Megan I am going to start having more polls on the blog. Maybe I should just let the polls decide everything....what movies I should see, whether I should go to the gym tonight...anyway, here's the newest poll:
Labels: subway
posted by carolyn @ 10:35 AM
4 Comments:
I voted. Belly is my favorite word. I am glad you chose it for this poll. I am not sure why I like it but I do and always have. Belly. Sounds like beignet or bounty or other yummy full words.
I hate assholes on the subway. I also had an asshole subway morning. The W train was fairly packed and one tall guy was leaning against the only available stripper pole to grab onto. As you know I am short so I cannot reach the poles of the seating area to my only option is the stipper pole. He is just leaning against it so I have to grab the pole way above his shoulder, which i estimate he was around 6'1. But he just kept on leaning against - no regard for the fact that people needed to grab the pole. I wanted to accidentally slide my hand down the pole real hard and hit him in the shoulder...but I didn't I just glared at him the whole time.
I love polls, keep 'em coming.
I think the word 'belly' is positive for women-like 'belly dancing.' However for men the word seems negative as in 'beer belly.'
I also had a negative subway experience that same morning. A horribly dressed woman was leaning against the pole thus blocking any access for a short girl like myself. Then as someone vacated their seat I moved towards it and she pushed in front of me, sat down, and also refused to make eye-contact. I am not one prone to fly into a rage-but I actually wanted to crack her skull open. At that hour in the morning the subway is so silent that any comments would be heard by all-so all you can do is just resort to glaring at the top of someone's head. That is so unsatisfying. We need to work together to think of some way to retaliate against these cretins-otherwise I fear the bottled up rage inside all of us is going to destroy us.
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