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I also groan the instant I hear "What time is it!?! It's showtime!!". Thankfully the last time this happened I was on the other end of the subway car so there wasn't a chance of getting knocked around if things went wrong.
Perhaps that "soliciting money in the subway is illegal" announcement needs to be a little more frequent.
Funny you should say that! When I was a conductor, I found out that you never know how people are going to react. One day, while working on the N line, I made that announcement while a panhandler was busy doing his thing in my very car. It's not too much of an exaggeration to say that he went ballistic; he ran over to my cab and started pounding on the door, screaming about all the things he was going to do to me (of course, he didn't actually do any of them--he just did a lot of screaming). Meanwhile, his performance turned off any possible customers he might have had in that car.
Another time, I made that announcement on an F train. And the guy pulled the emergency brake cord.
Apparently, the rule is this: panhandlers don't like to be interrupted by members of the train crew.
I ignore them pretty easily. They don't bug me. What annoys me a little is that they all have the same freaking routine. Get some new moves!!!
The candy people have to be some sort of ghetto franchise with one owner. They all have the same canned line. "Some of ya know me, some of ya don't but I go by the name of Candy Man..." lol, give me a break...
Funny you should say that! When I was a conductor, I found out that you never know how people are going to react. One day, while working on the N line, I made that announcement while a panhandler was busy doing his thing in my very car. It's not too much of an exaggeration to say that he went ballistic; he ran over to my cab and started pounding on the door, screaming about all the things he was going to do to me (of course, he didn't actually do any of them--he just did a lot of screaming). Meanwhile, his performance turned off any possible customers he might have had in that car.
Another time, I made that announcement on an F train. And the guy pulled the emergency brake cord.
Apparently, the rule is this: panhandlers don't like to be interrupted by members of the train crew.
LOL, that only really happened to me once..a fairly clean looking guy stopped at my window to ask me a question, while we were stopped at Times Square, then he got into the car in front of me. Between stations, I made that announcement, and at the next stop he came to my window again and demanded to know why I said what I said when he was just trying to make a living. I told him it was just a standard announcement that we were told to make at that station, but I don't think he believed me.
Funny you should say that! When I was a conductor, I found out that you never know how people are going to react. One day, while working on the N line, I made that announcement while a panhandler was busy doing his thing in my very car. It's not too much of an exaggeration to say that he went ballistic; he ran over to my cab and started pounding on the door, screaming about all the things he was going to do to me (of course, he didn't actually do any of them--he just did a lot of screaming). Meanwhile, his performance turned off any possible customers he might have had in that car.
Another time, I made that announcement on an F train. And the guy pulled the emergency brake cord.
Apparently, the rule is this: panhandlers don't like to be interrupted by members of the train crew.
Insane people always have the advantage of the underlying threat of violence. And we have to pay the price. That's why closing the state mental institutions in the 1980's was the second stupidest thing our society has done.
(The first was the 1950's committment to unceasing war and world domination.)
Brace for the comments implying you're either a racist or a transplant trying to impose your small-town values on 'real' New Yorkers.
'you rather see them stealing or committing crimes than make money in a honest way?'
I see that one coming.
You wish you can paint all who point out your racist behavior by suggesting that we condone disorder.
I abhor black college kids and church attendees being stopped and frisked. You claim that their blackness is reason enough.
Break dancers are welcome to perform in appropraite spaces. Narrow and crowded trains are inappropriate and dangerous to the dancers and other passengers.
They will make more money dancing for tourists in Time Square. They will also add to NYs appeal to its visitors.
Gotta love the attitude that all should buy their candy or tolerate their annoying antics because it is "better than robbing and stealing."
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No more bothered by the kids selling candy than I am by the Chinese selling illegal DVDs. If you dont want it they move on. Not even by the drummers or Mexican musicians.
Flinging themselves with limbs every where risks those who wish to ignore them to be included in a very dangerous way.
This is my point. Why do these klids not fear being busted by cops doing what must be clearly illegal, yet honest kids from workling class backgrounds risk humiliation at the hands of NYPD. The NYPD neeeds to better focus their activities/
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