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Wow. Makes me wanna quit my job already especially since I'd love to be self-employed. Plus when I take a coffee in front of my office building people on their way to South Street sometimes drop change in my cup. I never figured why but sure looks like I might have the qualifications for this better opportunity.
Not only that, but think of the money you'd save on clothing. You could wear the same clothes for seven or eight months without a change in wardrobe!
Astor Place #6 station about ten years ago. White guy in dreads playing a digeridu for money. He looked strung out, but man, he could play that thing. Really made the station sound weird.
One morning in the 90s, I stepped on a train in the World Trade Center that was waiting to leave, or so I thought. After standing there a minute, it slowly came into focus that there was something very different about the people surrounding me. Only after looking around did I realize what that was: they were all homeless. The train was not, in fact, leaving but rather it was parked there and had been overnight and the folks on the train were hanging out for lack of a better place to go....
I seen far too many disturbing things on the train. Here's some of my list:
Homeless man walks up to a woman who was sleeping and plants a hard kiss on her lips.
Homeless man who had worms crawling on his skin.
A crazy who picked on an old man and started to beat him like crap.
Two cracks head who pulled out a butcher knife and stabbed a young man aboard the 2 train for his bag.
Chain snatched as the doors open.
Women being molested by perverts, but too scared to scream.
Perverts who get off by whacking their meats, one was a young as 13.
A homeless man with pride, he berated a homeless man for laying across the chair and told him to have pride. He was homeless and told the other guy that he should not occupy more than his space and to sleep sitting up. I was shocked.
Since I don't live in New York..I probably have not seen much..but the time I visited..I was on the 6 and a older guy about 65 or so came busting thru the door from another car..he did the usual line about he hadn't eaten for 3 days but inspite of that "fact" he
still had his pride about him and because of his pride he broke out singing "Ain't to Proud to
Beg" by the Temptations with his arm out to the riders..he then went up and got in this guys face inches away and yelled something at him...this guy in a 3 piece suit and a brief case yelled back and got into his face ..so they yelled at each other for about 40 seconds..eventhough I am not from NYC and from SW Pa. and visit from time to time
I go into the ignore and "see and don't see" mode I learned from my NYC friends I go to visit..
Please acknowledge if you've heard this or a variation on the train at one point or another:
"Hello, ladies and gentlemen, my name is [name]. I'm here selling candy - not for a basketball league but to put some money in my pocket and keep me out of trouble. I have M&M Peanut and Starburst. Each candy is $1. Thank you and have a good day."
Not to make fun, mind you. But I thought it should go in this thread as I think I've heard at least 10 variations of this.
used to hear this on the 2 heading into Manhattan from the Sterling St station. Two cute little girls (one looked to be 13 and the other about 9).
Chicago L. Some couple screwing standing up, stark naked. I walked into the car and they didn't slow down a whit. I walked back out. I peeked 15 minutes later almost home, they were still at it. Youth is wasted on the young.
I know this is an old thread but I will contribute my 2 cents. A few years ago on a late night local A train on my way to Penn Station to catch the last NJ Transit train to NJ, the train was leaving the Chambers Street station. All of a sudden, the emergency brakes went off. 2 minutes later, I saw about 5 teenagers running through the cars, jumping all over people, to get to the back of the train to a car that was still in the station. When they got to the station, they went between the 2 cars and jumped over the chain to the platform. They proceeded to run down the platform and up onto the street. Needless to say I didn't make the last train to NJ and had to wait until the 5 something train. What a bunch of A$#$holes!
Also a few years ago, I was in the Bronx on a Manhattan bound #6 train. I was coming from work and didn't have time to eat my lunch, so I was snacking on a sandwich on the train. All of a sudden the man sitting next to me took off his shirt, so he was bare backed. He then started to scream top lung and started hocking spit into his shirt. At the next stop I got up and moved to another car.
Not too much craziness, given the amount of time I spend in the subway!
-On the F train about 2 years ago, a homeless guy came on the train and sat down. Nothing special, right? Well, he proceeds to pull out a crack pipe and start smoking crack right there ON the train!
-On the Q train, there is always a homeless guy with about 50 duane reade bags, double and triple bagged around each other. Anyway, I got in the train and sat down. He pulls out some type of industrial cleaner and proceeds to take a HUGE huff of the stuff. 30 seconds later he puts on headphones and starts bobbing his head so rediculously I thought his neck would break. The he stands up, turns around to face the corner of the car, pulls out an empty coke bottle, pulls down his pants, and starts urinating into the bottle! At the Dekalb Avenue station, he went to the door, emptied the urine in the crack between the doorway and platform, and then starts shaking the bottle onto the platform to dry up every last drop! I am 100% sure that the 2 or 3 people standing there on the platform got a little spray. That was probably the most disgusting thing I've seen.
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