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. . . Then, every once in a while one of them just decides on what the rules are and they tell you that you can't sit in a specific seat Following up their statements with condensing and or sarcastic comments like "Ever seen anyone sit here?"
Was this a very red-faced, shortish, rotund fellow on the Port Jeff line?
THAT fellow attacked me with quivering jowls and lightning bolts shooting out of his head and eyes, for daring to sit in the platform-level seating on the double deckers late at night out of Hicksville, while exhausted and hauling a heavy bag, and not wanting to drag my anchor up or down the stairs. What a - well, the word for shower in French! [url]https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&tl=fr&text=Shower[/url]
Then there was the guy on the 1AM-ish train in Huntington. You pull in from the city and have to RUN all the way to the connecting train which is parked in FRONT of the incoming train from the city.
I hadn't known this and just got on the train at the back and had a couple of conductors egg me on saying HURRY! and Better run! And it was a good thing I did, they were closing the doors as I got there.
I was a little upset about this and commented that they should time it so people wouldn't have to run - I have health issues. And got screamed at - yes, not yelled but screamed at, at by this horrible man for daring to speak up.
Ugh!
I have been deploring the advent of the video cameras on the trains as a very sad sign of the times, but in moments like this I welcome them. There should not be even one blind spot, and conductors should know it. This might keep the loonier ones in check, or help the railroad decide to transition them to a non-passenger-contact position.
I posted a couple of my own stories in response to the OP, but in general I agree.
Most conductors are a pleasure to encounter. There are even a few with whom I have forged awesome mini-friendships over the years; it makes my day or night just to see them.
But there are a few who, I suspect, simply do not like people (or maybe it's just women) and consider passengers fair target for venting of the spleen. There is no "other side of the story with them."
Riding the LIRR is already such an expensive and unpleasant experience that there's equal frustration on both parts. Both deserve civility and pleasantness; neither are fair game based on the frustration of an earlier rude encounter.
I find it funny how jealous people are of others who get pensions.
Yes it is...it's why I keep coming back to the LI Forum ..The Whine Capital of the Internet. Everytime I start to miss my old home I just have to come back here for a few minutes.
Yes it is...it's why I keep coming back to the LI Forum ..The Whine Capital of the Internet. Everytime I start to miss my old home I just have to come back here for a few minutes.
Funny how so many expats miss their old home so much they can't stop checking in with it daily.
I wonder if Vietnam Vets are on the Ho Chin Min City forums every day, just checking on the old neighborhood they hated so.
That's ridiculous. You're like the grown up version of a kid crying "Get out! This is our clubhouse!". Grow up.
ME??!! I lived in numerous places and have yet to EVER EVER EVER go on those forums for anything. EVER. Only "happy" LI expats feel a burning desire to opine on every friggin issue on LI, when they don't even live here. Some are entertaining and decent folks (you know who they are), but the premise is still bizarre. Apparently escaping LI saves a lot of dough but is boring as hell. And I thought LI was vanilla and tedious!
OK, here come the "happy campers" with their tales of fishing, casinos and bingo filled retirements on their NYS pensions.
Believe it or not, when I finally ditch this clambake, I won't be dabbing my toe in the LI forum plume water, EVER! And the ones who hide under multiple new screen names to do it...a new level of pathetic. lmfao
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Yes it is...it's why I keep coming back to the LI Forum ..The Whine Capital of the Internet. Everytime I start to miss my old home I just have to come back here for a few minutes.
ME??!! I lived in numerous places and have yet to EVER EVER EVER go on those forums for anything. EVER. Only "happy" LI expats feel a burning desire to opine on every friggin issue on LI, when they don't even live here. Some are entertaining and decent folks (you know who they are), but the premise is still bizarre. Apparently escaping LI saves a lot of dough but is boring as hell. And I thought LI was vanilla and tedious!
OK, here come the "happy campers" with their tales of fishing, casinos and bingo filled retirements on their NYS pensions.
Believe it or not, when I finally ditch this clambake, I won't be dabbing my toe in the LI forum plume water, EVER! And the ones who hide under multiple new screen names to do it...a new level of pathetic. lmfao
I don't really give a damn about what you have done, or about you, in general. I come here because I grew up on Long Island, my parents and siblings still live there, as well as my friends, and I visit frequently. Is there some sort of unwritten rule in the MonsterMagnet universe that this violates? Get bent and grow up, kid.
I don't really give a damn about what you have done, or about you, in general. I come here because I grew up on Long Island, my parents and siblings still live there, as well as my friends, and I visit frequently. Is there some sort of unwritten rule in the MonsterMagnet universe that this violates? Get bent and grow up, kid.
No, you're just being hyper-sensitive and humorless about it. If the shoe fits, shine it and stick it. I don't care that you ONCE lived on LI and have people here. I can say that about alot of places, and yet don't badger them online about their cost of living and politicians (not saying you do, but you chose to identify with that description). It's not the nostalgia forum. It's a relocation forum about the issues related to LIVING ON LONG ISLAND. But it's a free forum. Post away. I really had no beef with you particularly, but you chose to align yourself with my description. Apparently, the shoe fits.
I have a deep regard for many of the ex-pats on here. And still question their "new utopias" when they are on here as much as they are. Hell, I live here and question myself being on here so much! I'll concede there is some addictive pull to this trainwreck. That's fair.
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ME??!! I lived in numerous places and have yet to EVER EVER EVER go on those forums for anything. EVER. Only "happy" LI expats feel a burning desire to opine on every friggin issue on LI, when they don't even live here. Some are entertaining and decent folks (you know who they are), but the premise is still bizarre. Apparently escaping LI saves a lot of dough but is boring as hell. And I thought LI was vanilla and tedious!
OK, here come the "happy campers" with their tales of fishing, casinos and bingo filled retirements on their NYS pensions.
Believe it or not, when I finally ditch this clambake, I won't be dabbing my toe in the LI forum plume water, EVER! And the ones who hide under multiple new screen names to do it...a new level of pathetic. lmfao
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