Alone on the bus, a few blocks from the final stop, I looked around and also alone in the passage way was a piece of kale. It had fallen out of the Trader Jo’s bag of the disembarking man at the stop from which we had just pulled away from the curb. There was tenderness …
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More on Subway Riding
This is a made-up dictionary of some situations encountered while riding! http://mashable.com/2015/01/04/subway-dictionary/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link When all is said and done, just having experienced the Washington DC Metro system, the New York system does a lot of things right!!
Man Spreading…
A quote from the article to whet your appetite. How often I have thought this very thing: Who do you think you are to take up the space of two spreading your knees. After the quote below, is a link to the article A Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) spokesman, Kevin Ortiz, described the practice thus: …
Inspection
When one rents a car, there is this walk-around-dance one performs to make certain that any dings or injuries to the car are noted on the contract, and then one steps into the driver’s seat and closes the door. Yesterday the shift-change-busdriver did a ‘rental’ inspection of the bus he was about to take command …
Batten Down the Hatches, once again….
… someone out there will remember that the inception of the observations of the City began a year ago, when there were major preparations afoot for a storm. The City shut down, the neighborhood collected at the local bar and thankfully nothing happened. Now we are at it again. The Subway will close at 7 …
Apocalypse
that’s what he termed it as I passed him on the street, as he was speaking to a friend outside of Starbucks. He continued, ‘if Starbucks is closing at 3:45, it must be the end times.’ What apparently he had not taken into consideration is that all the MTA trains and buses were going to …