Tired of Jumping the Turnstile?
Don’t worry, the Ikea post is coming. Part one will be up after lunch.
In the mean time, here’s a story about my morning commute:
I wait for the train at the very end of the Central Square outbound platform, by the Pearl Street entrance. This morning, there was a young dude, wearing a hooded sweatshirt under his black coat, hanging out inside the gate, between the entrance and the platform. I figured he was either waiting for someone who gets off at Central, or was the kind of guy who likes to wait until the train arrives before sliding his pass or dropping his token to release the revolving gate and enter the station.
The train comes and I hear a loud crash behind me. The dude has flung himself up onto the top of the revolving gate, wedging his body on this small shelf of metal between the gate and the entrance arch – maybe an opening of a fooot or so. He shimmies his body around and manages to drop to the platform. Unshaken, he strolls to the second car and boards the train.
I stared at him in fascination and shock. Awed by his display of physical dexterity and appalled because I like to follow the rules and if you want to ride the train you have to pay $1.25.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?
Smells
March 18, 2004 @ 12:44 pm
Just the smoking girl. She said they smoke on the subway in New York all of the time, she hates Boston. She a lia though.
Smells
March 18, 2004 @ 3:28 pm
I have also witness the two people going through un-manned entry large turnstyles together.
And the man threatening to kill his girlfriend on his cell phone standing next to me.
And the hungover guy blowing chunks.
All i have to do is witness, a murder, a jump on the tracks suicide and a birth and i will have all my T riding badges.
Law Dawg
March 18, 2004 @ 4:17 pm
That girl IS a liar. I got a ticket in NYC last weekend for smoking on the platform. Believe me, it’s NOT allowed.
Swans
March 18, 2004 @ 5:22 pm
I will never grow tired of the “Lia” story. I wish I had been there.