Saturday, February 1, 2014

Woman on the subway platform.



The other night I dashed up the stairs to get to the subway platform as a train was arriving only to have it be “Out of Service” and pass by, and since the platform monitor was broken, I had no idea when the next train was due.

After a minute, a(n early 30s) (black) woman in a black leather jacket and pierced-through-the-center space below her lip walked up, so I asked her if she had seen when the next train was coming, and after that we started talking about public transportation and how the platform can be empty late at night, how some cars can be empty or have sketchy people in them so you have to look for a fuller call w/normal people, etc., and then she started talking about how she got on this one car the other week and there was a homeless guy in the middle of the car.

“He stunk so bad,” she was like, “It filled the car.”

She then said she had had a Subway sandwich with her and she was going to have half then on the subway car and half later at work on break like she sometimes does, only she couldn’t even start the 1st half on the way there, her appetite was so gone.

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