Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

fried chicken odor was probably a huge improvement over normal j train odor.

eating on train is 'gainst rules (tho not nec as annoying as open stroller or bike at rush hour)

stroller i can understand, but people with bikes piss me the fuck off. it's like, what, you can't just ride across a bridge? you lazy fuck with your spandex and your helmet.

New York City is becoming Ayn Rand's dream metropolis - a city where the power of wealth is wiping the scum from the streets (poor people, middle class people, writers, designers, public interest workers) and replacing them with mailboxes, coffee carts, and Thai Fusion restaurants. let us all hail our banker masters. So many people I know are starting to get priced straight out of the entire city ;[

Also whats the deal with people eating on the trains?

I agree; if you don't have time to eat elsewhere, stay home.

hunger, mostly

seriously why do you care?

cleanliness issues.
so many mcdonalds bags littering the train.

not to mention soda bottles, potato chip bags and candy bar wrappers.

yes, it's an intrusion on my personal space, which I realize is a quaint notion that will be buried by the enabled phone yakkers underground in another 2 years.

also, if you SPILL food on me on train, I shoot.

my favorite is seeing people (mostly teenagers) spilling a soda/coffee/whatever and promptly moving on to the next car.

so the issue isn't with the eating, it is with the slobs. i get it.

for me, yes.
i personally don't eat on the trains, as i stated above, because i feel like it attracts attention and i don't like people lookin at me.

no the issue is intrusion into personal space. the proper response to food smells on public transit is to ask if you can have some too.

that's just obnoxious.

i also am not sure how the train qualifies as "personal space" but whatever.

i saw this amazing guy in the morning sitting passed out on the crowded subway car with his head propped on a starbucks cup on his knee. it kept leaking coffee with each lurch, until the inevtiable fall came which woke him up and pissed everyone around him off. it was fascinating to watch.

It's SHARED public space, ian. If you enter my nostrils (or some other orifice)....

"Excuse me, young fellow, but your amateurish, lame rapping is not up to my standards of entertainment."

that's just obnoxious.

so's bringing your smelly food on the train/bus

xpost - haha, i almost dropped my unused JAM awards tix in lame-neuron-invading-rapper's hat last night, but that probably would have been a disproportionate response

morbius, do you also hate street corner kebab sellers?
how about people eating popcorn at the movies?

and gabbneb, i feel there's a big different between passively violating someone's idea of personal space and actively harassing them.

you're from somewhere else

and you're a douchebag, if we're going to be stating the obvious.

the subway is not outdoors - you're forced into a compartment with other people and limited ability to move

my douchebaggery has well-defined and -defended contours, tho

forced is a bit of an extreme word choice. you can select any car you choose, and if you're unhappy with it, then you can move.

you guys are such nazis about the food on the train thing.

oh no godwins law bell labs loses ;_;

And how else are you supposed to get your dinner home? Jesus Christ, shut the fuck up. There are lots of people taking take-out on the train even in CLOSED containers and you can still smell it. Depending on how I feel, greasy McDonald's or whatever may not be my idea of a good time but it's the TRAIN, it's EVERYONE'S transpo.

outdoors, if you want to yell at me, i can walk away from you. in a subway, i am forced to listen to what you say after the train leaves unless i want to take life in hand by walking between cars, where you'll probably follow me shortly.

you get your dinner at home

unless i want to take life in hand by walking between cars,

^^^ i doubt you have ever done this. it is in fact quit easy if you have four working limbs.

i understand that travel time is some peoples' only time to eat - i don't wanna lock people up for the shit - but i'm not gonna pretend that that's everyone who brings food on the train or that it isn't fucking annoying

who is forcing you to take the subway? take a car haughty-pants

xxxp You suck.

haha

i used to ride the bus next to l.a.'s famous thai elvis. he always smelled, somewhat incongruously, of kimchee.

once i was tripping really hard and couldn't get him to stop vibrating

i probably car-hopped before you'd ever been to ny, if you want to get personal about it

it's smelly & obnoxious, but sometimes people can only eat on the run. so the way that i see it, it's just as obnoxious for me to make a stink (no pun intended) as it is for them to eat on public transportation.

u old

subway food is always preferable to subway farting

yes, you're old.
yes, you've lived in new york a long time.
no, moving between cars is not "taking your life into your hands" any more than crossing a street against a light is. stop being a baby. xppp

you guys take me too seriously :D

also, i don't take cars

you'd be happier if you did. private, cozy, no odd smells...

yes, i'm more than familiar with cars but i take them only in extremis. fyi.

how bout you...MOVE TO THE SUBURBS

extremis like what, you gonna get out a station early and switch to a car cuz you don't like the dude eating fried chicken? or extremis like, you're only a downtown brooklyn tourist and are scared of walking from train to destination...?

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i want fried chicken now

I'm not pro-eating on the subways, but what I said earlier since everyone has glossed right over it is that plenty of unpleasant food smells result from people just carrying prepared food, not nec eating it IN THE SUBWAY. Gabbneb are you SERIOUSLY saying that people should only get take-out from within walking distance of their apartments? Because you know god forbid I misjudge you but that would be some asshole pronouncement.