Two New York City Subway experiences in the last 24 plus hours. One very sad, the other one .. maddening.
Yesterday.. when I went into Manhattan to see my friend Adam.. There was.. an apparently sleeping homeless person... who.. other subway riders believed.. must have gone to the bathroom in their pants. The smell was overwhelming, to the point that certain people said they felt faint, and everyone was holding their noses.
Tonight, this one was unreal.
I went into the city to see my father and Cheryl for dinner. On my way home.. there was a dispute in the 53rd and Lexington Avenue subway station. It isnt clear if someone on a departing train was harassing another person in the station.. or what exactly happened. Two guys started arguing, screaming curses at each other at the top of their lungs. One of the guys was standing the doorway of the departing train, and refused to move, which prevented other trains from coming to pick up riders. This must have gone on for a good. 30 to 45 minutes at least. The police never came. I think finally the guy who was standing in the doorway, holding up the train, either got off, and went on another train.. or.. finally gave up the argument with whoever he was yelling at, and left. The people standing next to me in the station, who wanted to get on a train to go to Queens, were yelling at the guy to either get off the train,,. or leave with/on the train.
Only in New York./
Yesterday.. when I went into Manhattan to see my friend Adam.. There was.. an apparently sleeping homeless person... who.. other subway riders believed.. must have gone to the bathroom in their pants. The smell was overwhelming, to the point that certain people said they felt faint, and everyone was holding their noses.
Tonight, this one was unreal.
I went into the city to see my father and Cheryl for dinner. On my way home.. there was a dispute in the 53rd and Lexington Avenue subway station. It isnt clear if someone on a departing train was harassing another person in the station.. or what exactly happened. Two guys started arguing, screaming curses at each other at the top of their lungs. One of the guys was standing the doorway of the departing train, and refused to move, which prevented other trains from coming to pick up riders. This must have gone on for a good. 30 to 45 minutes at least. The police never came. I think finally the guy who was standing in the doorway, holding up the train, either got off, and went on another train.. or.. finally gave up the argument with whoever he was yelling at, and left. The people standing next to me in the station, who wanted to get on a train to go to Queens, were yelling at the guy to either get off the train,,. or leave with/on the train.
Only in New York./
