So, of course, the day I post something that says you won't be hearing much from me in the coming weeks, a primo, Grade-A slab of blogfodder lands squarely in my lap.
I'll be brief.
In the 13 years I've lived in NYC, I've never been on a train where someone actually pulled the emergency brake. Never even heard of anyone doing it, actually. Until last night.
Not only was I on the train, I was in the car where it happened.
We had just started pulling away from the Times Square station when, "screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." We slam to a grinding halt, people fly forward, grabbing on to the poles and each other for dear life.
Much confusion and concern ensue.
Finally, from the other end of the car I hear someone yelling "IS THIS GOING UPTOWN OR DOWNTOWN...? UPTOWN OR DOWNTOWN...?"
I'm a little puzzled. Finally, a wave of acknowledgement, disbelief and harumph-y chatter makes it's way from that end of the car to mine.
Someone.
Pulled the fucking.
Emergency brake.
Because...
(wait for it...)
They got on the wrong train.
(...)
I know.
I couldn't believe it either.
Someone pulled the emergency brake because they got on the uptown train instead of the downtown train.
People were BESIDE THEMSELVES. And, of course it was one of those situations which then prompts everyone on the train to have a vocal opinion about what's going on and try to share it with the world. EVERY New York type is there and putting in their two cents. "Someone needs to call the cops... Guy must be crazy... I'D fuckin' punch the guy if I was over there... I've got a DENTIST appointment, man, I don't have TIME... I've lived here since '67, I've never seen... I'm seriously going to move to Alexandria, Virginia. Have you been there? It's really... Seriously, someone needs to call the cops on this guy..."
If it had happened in the morning, I'd have been livid. But, since it was after work and I didn't have anywhere particular to be, I found myself mildly entertained by it.
Ahhh... The City. Just when you think you've seen it all, it readily and definitively reminds you that, in fact... you haven't.
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5 comments:
that is RICH. dear god. what happened to the guy? hilarious. did he get reprimanded in any way?
Did he die a horrible death?
WOW!! That's an amazing fact. You are a special person, seriously. When I read that someone pulled the emergency brake, I immediately checked the date of this post - because I thought FOR SURE that I would have read about it in the papers! And it was pulled because someone GOT ON THE WRONG TRAIN!!!!?? Wow. I can't believe that. That's amazing. I wish I was there.
So...wait...you DON'T pull the emergency brake if you get on the wrong train? SHIT! They really need to post that somewhere....
oh i miss the city... the best part is I can see everyone of the those nyc types bitchin... and I would have probably been right there with them...
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