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:
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posted by carolyn @ 10:35 AM
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