Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

And how else are you supposed to get your dinner home? Jesus Christ, shut the fuck up. There are lots of people taking take-out on the train even in CLOSED containers and you can still smell it. Depending on how I feel, greasy McDonald's or whatever may not be my idea of a good time but it's the TRAIN, it's EVERYONE'S transpo.

outdoors, if you want to yell at me, i can walk away from you. in a subway, i am forced to listen to what you say after the train leaves unless i want to take life in hand by walking between cars, where you'll probably follow me shortly.

you get your dinner at home

unless i want to take life in hand by walking between cars,

^^^ i doubt you have ever done this. it is in fact quit easy if you have four working limbs.

i understand that travel time is some peoples' only time to eat - i don't wanna lock people up for the shit - but i'm not gonna pretend that that's everyone who brings food on the train or that it isn't fucking annoying

who is forcing you to take the subway? take a car haughty-pants

xxxp You suck.

haha

i used to ride the bus next to l.a.'s famous thai elvis. he always smelled, somewhat incongruously, of kimchee.

once i was tripping really hard and couldn't get him to stop vibrating

i probably car-hopped before you'd ever been to ny, if you want to get personal about it

it's smelly & obnoxious, but sometimes people can only eat on the run. so the way that i see it, it's just as obnoxious for me to make a stink (no pun intended) as it is for them to eat on public transportation.

u old

subway food is always preferable to subway farting

yes, you're old.
yes, you've lived in new york a long time.
no, moving between cars is not "taking your life into your hands" any more than crossing a street against a light is. stop being a baby. xppp

you guys take me too seriously :D

also, i don't take cars

you'd be happier if you did. private, cozy, no odd smells...

yes, i'm more than familiar with cars but i take them only in extremis. fyi.

how bout you...MOVE TO THE SUBURBS

extremis like what, you gonna get out a station early and switch to a car cuz you don't like the dude eating fried chicken? or extremis like, you're only a downtown brooklyn tourist and are scared of walking from train to destination...?

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i want fried chicken now

I'm not pro-eating on the subways, but what I said earlier since everyone has glossed right over it is that plenty of unpleasant food smells result from people just carrying prepared food, not nec eating it IN THE SUBWAY. Gabbneb are you SERIOUSLY saying that people should only get take-out from within walking distance of their apartments? Because you know god forbid I misjudge you but that would be some asshole pronouncement.

i have always wanted to get a really greasy fried chicken meal and stroll around the santa monica promenade eating it as messily as possible out of a giant bucket

It should run all the way to Jackson Heights EVERY TIME
Are you sure about this, Dan? I have never, ever seen a G train at Roosevelt, I think it is only supposed to be there at some weird hour.

On nights and weekends (I think), the G is supposed to run all the way to 71st/Continental. It hasn't done so regularly for a long time (though it was last weekend), they just post a new service advisory at the begining of every month.

i used to ride the bus next to l.a.'s famous thai elvis. he always smelled, somewhat incongruously, of kimchee.

once i was tripping really hard and couldn't get him to stop vibrating

-- remy bean, Tuesday, December 4, 2007 2:02 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

excuse me, but THIS IS FUCKING HILARIOUS

in london they had signs on the train saying "please do not eat stinky food on the train, it is rude!" or something. and i ate burger king on the train just because it seemed stuck up and i am a rude american.

ian: I'm walking past kebab sellers, plus kebabs smell OK.

I don't think people should eat ANYTHING at a movie less than 2-1/2 hrs long (I miss the old Film Forum -- it sold no food), and I often want to put the popcorn-crunchers and plastic-bag rustlers in a headlock.

Don't think the 'Neb was suggesting you can't carry food.

And how else are you supposed to get your dinner home? ...

-- Laurel

you get your dinner at home

-- gabbneb

OK, I may have been trying too hard to look for downtime to his douchiness

i just hate people who live in a huge city and think only about their own needs for personal space and comfort. that is not what city living is about, move to the goddamn suburbs if those are your priorities.

LOL, I am thinking about the needs of everyone on the fucking train!

maybe you would get it if you didn't grow up in the burbs!

do you also hate homeless people on the train in the winter? sometimes they smell funky, so do you stop thinking about their needs?

i am going to sneak into your apartment building and hide fried chicken in the vents.

don't get any on your shirt! :D

lay a deuce in his oven

priorities plz

eating on train >>>>>>>>>>>>>> dumping your gum on the platform

All I like on a train is a minimum of personal space and comfort. And the other passengers occasionally don't reach this benchmark.

YOU ARE NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION YOU ARROGANT FUCKING YUPPIE.
DO YOU HATE THE HOMELESS?
DO YOU HATE FAT PEOPLE?
DO YOU HATE SCREAMING BABIES?
ALL OF THESE AND MORE MAY INCONVENIENCE YOU WHILE YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT THE NEEDS OF "EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING TRAIN."

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eating on the train is rude. hands down. If you were raised in a crowded urban area you'd see how annoying it can be. Who cares if people are from the suburbs, but eating on the train has its closest equivalent to guzzling down Big Macs in your SVU

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"fuckin' yuppies!"

As far as I can tell all people in Crown Heights who were RAISED in an URBAN AREA are the first people to bring fried chicken on the C train. Keep trying, though.

xp haha

LOOK let's just agree to fight the real enemy, dudes that open their legs really wide and take up two seats

or alternately, dudes who press their junk against you just because the train is a teeny bit crowded

I will fight that guy for you, labs.

i will knife him.
with MY dick.
it's razor sharp.

the thing is, the train is so crowded that if you say "get your dick off me, creep!" he'll just be like, "whoa, it's a crowded train, it wasn't intentional!" and you'll be the one that looks like a jerk.

you know, so many people these days just don't measure up to my standards of what is presentable appearance when it comes to public transportation. i mean, i'm FORCED to see these people. it's just so wrong.

the thing is, the train is so crowded that if you say "get your dick off me, creep!" he'll just be like, "whoa, it's a crowded train, it wasn't intentional!" and you'll be the one that looks like a jerk.

"hey, i don't know how it wound up on your shoulder, honest!"

wear a rat-trap on your ass (xp)

Laurel, just because you saw some black people from Crown Heights eat chicken on a train doesn't give you a free pass to eat god knows what on the train, too( also, "urban" does not always mean "black"). It's the same principle behind people who stand in front of the door in the subway - it's rude, and p yuppies from the suburbs are the people who not only do it, but defend it.

hey BURT, you're the one to bring skin color into this.