Subway stories
 

Do you have any subway stories?

I'm really not used to dealing with public transportation and so my visit to Boston was interesting. I blogged the following story and I thought I'd share.

subway pee
The subway cars were packed like sardines for many of our rides in the past few days. Lot of "standing room only" situations. In any case, it's not an adventure I get to experience everyday

A couple nights ago, went to watch Matrix 3 at the Loews Boston Common. On our way back home after the movie, my bf warned me of possible freaks on the subway. I pretty much dismissed this as something that occurs later at night- it was only 10:30pm. We shuffled onto the subway.

Two giggling girls were having problems getting off the car as we made our way in. Problems in the fact that one was sitting funny and having difficulty getting up from her seat while the other was helping her up. We sat across from this commotion- you gotta act quickly if you want a seat on the train :P In any event, the girls finally left. One of the girls left a nice gift on her seat- a puddle of piss.

Most passengers stared in disbelief. The word from others was that the girl really needed to go to the restroom. Before getting onto this train, she was in another stuffed subway car- telling her friend that she needed to relieve herself. It was observed she could not hold it- she formed a wet spot in her pants and there was a lovely puddle on the floor of the car.

An unsuspecting kid sat in the seat next to the puddled seat and laid his hand near the liquid. No one said a thing and we were surprised he didn't notice. Then came the shock of discovery. Then the EWWWW. Then the handy cell phone with cam was whipped out.

Always check the subway seat before sitting in it. You never know.

Ew....and you know that nobody is going to clean that. It'll just dry up so that some unsuspecting person will sit on that seat or put their hand on it while eating their bagel on their way to work. YUCK!

was this on the green line or the red line? and now you have me nervous, nina. thanks!!

Ohhh... my. :eek:

I could picture that happening on the green line. Darn trolley cars bounce around too much...

One of the first things every New York subway rider learns, is that if the train pulls into the station and every car is jammed except for one... do not get into the empty car. There's a reason it's empty.

Ya got that right!!!!! :eek: :eek:

When I was commuting to town & married, I was having the worst morning sickness. I turned to the guy standing across from me and said, "Excuse me, I think I'm going to throw up." People moved out of my way so fast, you wouldn't even believe it!

I got off at the next stop, even though it wasn't mine!

this was on the red line at park street (?) on the way back from the loews boston common movie theatre. :)

btw, I wish the subway was as clean as the one in Matrix 3. lol.

PS. more boston subway stories here:

http://www.boston-online.com/subway/

Well, it's not exactly the same as a subway, but here ya go...

In Japan this summer, while taking the train, I noticed tons of people with camera cell phones... It's a pretty non-confrontational culture, so instead of staring at others, lots of people were using their camera viewers on their cell phones to look around at others... I was slightly creeped out by it, especially since most of them were looking at us, since we were obviously tourists.

When I was in high school, my parents, a friend and I went to Taste of Chicago. It was very hot and crowded, and I ate Gino's East pizza and Dove Bars all day until I felt sick. I told my mom I felt sick and she told me to "lighten up." Well yeah, I did, by vomiting on the el which was stalled and packed. It was awful. Some guy asked me if I was going to do that again and I was like, "I don't know." I didn't, until we were in the car, which wasn't pretty at all either.

I used to take the el every day, and I've seen more than my share of dudes who stand between the cars and pee.

Well the most interesting part of my day is generall ymy morning subway commute. I spend my time noting fashion do's and dont's, lol.

The really bad thing about the subway of late is the extremely sharp rise in the number of homeless people. It is at the point where as soon as one person begging for money exits the subway car, another one enters. A lot of them are mentally unstable or sick, so there are people having almost violent discussions with themselves, or begging in barely comprehensible voices. It's terrible and very sad.

My favorite experience on the subway was when I first got here. It was summer, hot as heck, and I happened to be wearing some shorts and a tank top (a little revealing, I guess, but nothing was hanging out!). I noticed the guy sitting across from me staring at me. OK, whatever. Then, he moved his bags over his lap. Then I heard the bags rustling, and him breathing heavy...I think you get the idea :eek: It was, like, my second subway ride ever and I didn't think to switch cars or get off and wait for the next one. Thankfully, my stop was only a couple after he started. Blech! I still feel nasty just thinking about it.

Also, men like to "accidentally" lean their pelvis into you on the subway. So you move forward, but then they move forward. I have a friend, whose all of 5 feet tall, who turns to men whenever they do this and yells, "Do you mind? I don't need your penis touching me!"

BTW, I'm not saying this happens to me because of my overwheling beauty. It just happens to most women on the NYC subway at least a few times (well, the leaning into story at least!). It's just some nasty men around here!!!! :mad:

i'm so going to have such anxiety on the way home tonight! i might be standing on the red line from now on.. although i usually do anyways since i'm on it for so little time.

Not the subway, but the streetcars --
There's this crazy Argentinian guy here in Heidelberg who likes to ride the buses and streetcars around. Then if you're a female by yourself, he'll come up and start talking to you, telling you how much he likes Germans / Americans / Brits / whatever you tell him you are. Then, all of a sudden, he starts asking "when are we going to see each other again?", and saying all this weird stuff like how the two of you should go out and that you're destined to be together.
This same guy has talked to me and something like 6 people I know...I'm wondering, does he just ride around on the Heidelberg bus/streetcar system all day, looking for females by themselves? Creepy!

Not a good subway story, but today I was on the subway and it stops right at my street, but today it was so crowded and people were holding the doors that the conductor came on the speaker and said since customers held doors, the train's late and he wouldn't be stopping at my street and other streets... was surprised, it's never happened to me before, so I had to walk.

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I haven't really had too many interesting experiences on the T (subway)...either that or I'm just too used to it by now.

The red line is usually better than the green line...I'm surprised you had such a problem on there. You're probably lucky you didn't go on the blue or orange line, those two are the worst.

I'll have to think about it...but my subway experiences haven't been so bad.

Collin

I am sick and tired of those Jared commercials. It is almost as annoying as the dude you gotta get a dell commercials. I know wrong subway but the title got me thinking. :p

mmmm
 

*drool* I could go for a 12 " turkey breast from subway...lol

I hate the 'leaning' thing guys do eww gross.

My worst subway story to date is this man who panhandles on the 7 who does not speak and just snaps his fingers at ppl HUGGING me after I smiled and shook my head at him to signal "no i don't have any spare change for you". For that and some other time reasons I avoid the 7 at all costs now.

I happen to be a great subway passenger tho. I often give away my pretzles to ppl asking for $. And I'm a sucker for those kids selling $1 M&Ms for thier 'senior trip to the Poconos' or "uniforms for my basketball team" WTF are the M&MS always peanut tho???

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the orange line definitely freaks me out every time i take it.. which unfortunately i did way too many times over the summer!

Man, I wish the T was as clean as the subway. The public transit in Boston is downright calm and civilized compared to the subway.

What gets me is how people solicit in the subway...they all start out the same. "Hello. I hope everyone is having a blessed day..." (fill in whatever sob story there is).

I took the subway home from the Village at about 6 AM Sunday, and the majority of cars had at least one homeless person sleeping on it. Sad. :(

What about the ones who either sing or try to perform a comedy act? One time there were 3 or 4 boys who decided to do a dance routine on the train. It was all fine until they started doing flips and whatnot. Luckily none of the passengers got kicked.

I generally do not board a train that is overly-crowded. I do not like the idea of someone pressed up against me, I don't care who it is. I would rather let a few trains go by until one comes along that is not too crowded.

BTW - There are a lot of folks in NYC who go to work b/4 9 am. I catch the 7:32 train (taking my daughter to school) and we can hardly find a seat.

When my husband and I visited my cousin and his wife in NYC over the summer we encountered a couple funny situations on the subway...

The one that I remember the most was this lady was standing up and wasn't paying attention, when it started moving she bit it BIG TIME. My husband and I tried to reach out and grab her before she hit the floor but we didn't get there in time.

How about when you're standing on the train and the guy who's jammed in behind you decides to GRAB YOUR BUTT and there's nothing you can do about it because the train is so packed you can't turn around? Yeah, happened to me last Wednesday on an outbound E-line train, on the T in Boston. Anyone that's tried to get on an outbound train anywhere after Park Street around 6pm knows why folks in this city don't get along. You'd hate everyone too if you were thisclose to them every afternoon.
Well anyway, this guy's arm was hanging straight down, and he had a bag in his hand...and eventually my butt. Not so pleasurable. I couldn't figure out what to do until my friend looked at me and said "bend your knees." After about 3 times of my butt falling out of his hand, he got the picture. And then we ran away.

Sometimes I think the green-line is shadier than the orange line. But then again I try to avoid the orange-line as much as possible. I live right by NEMC...and there's a stop RIGHT THERE...but I still take the green line to boylston and walk down tremont. *Sigh* ah, the perils of the T...

I'm done with my Queens to Bronx commute by 7:32! Don't even ask what time I get up in the morning to do that...

BTW...If you're trying to catch a train past 7:30 the school kids, mostly HS, start getting on the train as well as the adult commuters and that just gums up the works even more!

To the girl who apparently has a cute, nice grabbable butt. Grr tiger :p
 

(aside from pulling the alarm cord) One option is to say LOUDLY "can whoever has put their hand on MY butt please remove it IMMEDIATELY" or similar. :mad:. He'll be the one nearby with the red face. Or, if you know who is doing it you could say "I'm gonna count to three, and by the time I've finished your hand better have frickin' moved". But that last one's maybe a little agressive :). Sooner or later he'll do it to a girl who really doesn't like it and he won't have a hand!

I always encounter these kids around the city during hours when they damn well should be in school.... i usually question them on it and they run away :)

I know how it is to sell stuff to raise money for trips, etc. But damn, don't be skipping school to do it!

I hate the subway in Toronto. people are so rude. The other day I was pushed by 3 people trying to get off. So I wrote a letter to the free newspaper they pass out on the subway outlining some rules for riding the TTC and it was published. Yay me!
I figured righting a letter was better than drop kicking someone who ticked me off.

Yes, but the second one is so much more fun!

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That would be me. :D Details below.

I rode the T for 4 years (plus return trips) and I NEVER heard a story like AlphaGam1019's!!!! YUCK!!!!

I did the Orange Line once. ONCE
Needed it to take my GREs. There were a flock of college students in their shirts who may as well have been wearing signs that said, "We're not from around here."

Re: decadence's post
Sitting on the Green line, just out of Park Street. Some geezer decides he's going to rub himself up against me.

I was carrying an umbrella. It "slipped." Hard.

I'd like to think that "Chester" would be unwilling (or unable....) to pull that stunt again.

Adrienne
(do NOT mess around w/ my personal space on mass transit!!)
:D

Eww, sorry that happened to you on your trip to Boston.

My two weird subway stories:

I had just arrived in Paris in 1998 and I was waiting to take a train from the airport to downtown Paris. The train arrived and a woman steped off wearing nothing but a trench coat....she throws off the trench coat and starts to run away. A dozen or so guys run out of the train and start to chase her out of the station.

Another time I was on the Red line in Boston and there was an amourous couple on board with their hands down each other pants and making out. I was with my class on a school trip and we stared and giggled (we were pretty young) but that didn't seem to disturb the couple.

all your stories about boston (however disgusting they maybe) make me realize how much I miss the trials and tribulations of riding the T every day to work for nine months (braintree all the way to science park...not fun!). Although pole dancing on the last train outbound on the red line is always fun :).

anyways i have a subway story although amazingly not from Boston. A friend of mine was studying abroad 2 years ago in Paris and I decided to go visit her for spring break. In the end, there were 3 of us visiting her that week and we decided to take the train out to Versailles. There was only the 4 of us and this mid 30s frenchman sitting across from us. I was in mid-sentence when I looked over at him and noticed something on his lap. I didnt want to make it obvious that I was staring at him but I glanced over again and noticed the tissue in his one hand and sure enough he had whipped it out right there in the middle of the train!! I was freaking out and he sat there straight faced and continued his business and clearly did not care that we caught him in the act. We got up and moved to another end of the train but that didnt stop him from obviously staring at us again and pleasuring himself one more time. yuck!

someone remind me to take PARIS off my list of places to visit before i die...

LMAO! That is exactly what made me come to this thread! I thought it was about the restaurant! My only (not even very interesting story) about Subways were while we were in London. My husband is always looking for opportunities to say "MIND THE GAP" in his worst British accent! Also, in Paris, we watched some pickpocketers...that was really weird!

aj

On the MTR in Hong Kong, there are automated announcements in Chinese (I presume Cantonese) and English that say things like "Please mind the closing doors", "Next stop: ___", and (as the train pulls into certain stations where the platform is curved so the doors aren't always quite next to the platform) "Please mind the gap between the train and the platform."

My husband and I had a running joke while we were in HK: "Please mind the gap between the train and the platform." "AHHHH!" "He did not mind the gap between the train and the platform."

OK, it was silly :p

we did the same thing when i was in school in london!!!