Showing posts with label the rails are a cage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the rails are a cage. Show all posts

Thursday, April 04, 2013

batting a thousand...



...never get into fights in your neighborhood. it looks bad in front of the neighbors

—the bastard

the bastard is batting a thousand this week with train travel

monday: fracas with frenchie over blocking the door

tuesday: i end up having a sit in on some german tourists backpack  because he doesn't understand the take your frikkin bag off your back on a crowded subway train rule

wednesday: a very fat gentleman is blocking the door and isn't getting off of the train but decides to move to let people off. unfortunately he merely rotates 180 degrees in place actually making no room for passengers to get on or off the train thus prompting myself and sir edmund hillary to scale him to escape the 6 train

this morning: platform is crowded and as the 7 pulls in i start to filter in along with the natural order of things when people filter onto a crowded subway train in which people all block the door because their all getting off at grand central.

"ehhh cues you, yeh ehh cuse you"

i pay no mind to this whatnot as i'm in the flow of people. i'm sure i could stop and completely wreck the natural order of things but i keep going until a feel something crashing into the backs of my legs.

"ehhh cues you, yeh ehh cuse you"

not knowing what's scraping my leg, i foot sweep back to hit stroller wheels and this well spoken invidual who no doubt tok a stroll down my way from the queensbridge houses yells,

"hey wash out you", revealing that this small person was literally trying to shove her stroller up my ass along with her kid in it, on a crowded train platform.

who does that?

i know everyone wants to get where they're going buy you're putting your kid in danger by attacking people with the very vehicle you are supposed to be using to protect your child.

who does that?

so, ready to go, she's getting loud, perhaps figuring that fatty mcwhiteboy will just be sheepish and step on the train and she can feel she's gotten her two cents in

"stop shoving your babycarriage into my legs!", i boom, "what's wrong with you?"

and i step into the middle of the car where there's plenty of room. and there would have been plenty for all if people would just step into the car.

friday: i think i'm gonna stay in bed and hide from the subway. or perhaps take the ferry. nothing could happen to me there could it?

—the bastard

Monday, April 01, 2013

the flinch...



...or dumb shit i've done on my way to work

so there was this guy having a heated discussion with his girlfriend in french...

who was blocking the door...

and perhaps it wasn't heated so much as it was loud and in french...

but he was blocking the door...

and i should have thought better of it...

but i didn't as i shoved past him...

and i didn't when i added insult to injury by telling him he can step out...

yeah, so he was totally justified in losing his shit with me.

oddly enough, i didn't see red when he called me an asshole and attempted to goad me into something.

instead, i just whipped my finger out 6 inches from his face...

unexpectedly to him, i would guess as he jumped back in the crowded car.

i think i said something insulting as i stood there with my finger in his face...

pointed at his eye...

waiting for the next move...

i'm not sure but, while the bastard didn't see red, the tv snow kicked in that comes with adrenaline...

i thought it was on and reached for the steel...

then i thought better and walked away, i've already done enough dumb shit for one morning so, i take a walk...

and in his loudest french accent, he yells, "fuck you" at the top of his lungs as i walk away.

i turn briefly and quip back with, "your moms" and i'm off all the while as he shouts as many insults in an attempt to goad me back to the car as if he truly wished to be part of one of those retarded youtube videos of idiots fighting on the train...

basically, he went down the list and shouted about my mother...

because once a mother joke is made, you have to respond back with one by obligation...

my baldness...

yep, i am that...

my weight...

well, i look big in a jacket but, i've lost weight but compared to the bag of bones in wayfarers that was yelling at me, i probably was fat...

but nah...

i wasn't taking the bait.

so in retrospect...

hey, hysterical french guy who i slighted this morning...

it wasn't my finest hour and i should have thought better...

but i didn't...

and you didn't deserve to have to relive that shit for the rest of your ride to the 9/11 monument or whatever touristy thing you were headed to today...

but it happened...

and you get two for flinching

—the bastard

Saturday, December 08, 2012

dear MTA…

hey…

it's me again.

hey, that was pretty dope how you got the subways up and running again after the hurricane and all…

and I'm totes okay with the fare hike coming down the pike…

I know you guys are looking at mad debt after this business…

but your weekend service is goddam awful…

how the hell does anyone get anywhere on a Saturday?

it's ridicaluss.

so…

that said…

pick up the slack bitches…

it's the little things that count these days…

hurricanes are so 30 days ago.

love always,

—the bastard