The teenaged sobber meets the motorman's ire
A young woman in her late teens came running through the car, crying, sobbing, blubbering loudly. It looked like a boy cry. You know -- guy troubles.
She went to the next emergency exit, went through the door and just stayed there between cars, sobbing loudly.
An older guy sitting in the Hobo Corner buzzed for the motorman. At the next stop -- Argyle -- the motorman stopped and walked about halfway down the platform. He found her and asked from the platform what she was doing.
She sobbed: "I'm fine! Leave me alone!
He answered, unsympathetically: "What you should be crying about is that your head is gonna get knocked off between these here trains."
She looked embarrassed, and finally took a seat in the train car, still sobbing softly.
david: you're right. something is either illegal or it's not. but there definitely shades of illegality *we will tolerate.* because not everything that is illegal people care about.
most of the time, jaywalking isn't a big deal. shit, even when it IS a big deal (michigan avenue, anyone?), people don't get tickets for it. assault is. there are things that society realizes there are laws against, but a lot of people don't really bother with.
honestly, as long as they're not in my face about it and make quick work of walking through the car, if the "i'm blind" dude on the red line wants to do his thing, fine. but when it gets to be intrusive, then i'm a little more than annoyed.
and i *do* wish they'd get conductors back, but i wish gas was $2 a gallon, too.
Posted by: smussyolay | August 25, 2008 at 01:36 PM
im glad those doors are unlocked. if theres a smelly hobo i can change cars without having to try and squeeze through people trying to get on at the next platform. also, the other day i got sick on the train (not alcohol or drug related), so if those doors werent open my puke would have been all in your lap!
Posted by: drugdog | August 25, 2008 at 06:00 PM
A person is crying and behaving in a disorg. manner and this commenter just writes it off as a "boy cry?"
That's the real problem here.
Posted by: TheeErin | August 25, 2008 at 11:42 PM