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February 27, 2004
I should just start a subway blog
So I admit to pretty much being obsessed with the subway. They don't have this thing called "public transportation" where I'm from (uh, yeah, seriously.), much less the sort of public transportation that runs in elaborate tunnels underground. I like trains. I like tunnels. I like people watching. The subway was made for me. I also don't like fucking around with fuckwad annoying fucking full of themselves "I'm doing you a FAVOR by driving you somewhere" fucking cabdrivers, and thus I prefer to take the subway even at 3am when I'm drunk.
Of course, as we all know I also hate the general public. I like to WATCH them, but I don't like to be among them, and I don't like them invading my personal space. So, being the idiot that I am, I moved to New York City, where it is near impossible to avoid mingling with people who make it their goal in life to invade your personal space (or at least to make more personal space of their own by throwing an elbow into your ribs or, in my case, into the side of my skull, since I'm so short most people's elbows are about head level. ahhahahaha.)
The first time I took my mother on the subway she pointed out that everyone was reading, andwasn'tthatgreat! (note: my mother teaches elementary school). I pointed out that while, yes, it's great that everyone is reading, the vast majority of them are reading not for reading's sake, but reading to avoid making eye contact with the 200 other human beings on the train, and thus instigating or encouraging some continued communication--the person you make eye contact with might ask you to buy double A batteries, and that would be the worse thing that could possibly EVER HAPPEN to you--or at least I think that's what we're all worried about.
Anyway, I was wrong, or things have changed in the last few months, or something. Because everyone is still reading, but they're reading not to avoid making eye contact with strangers, but reading for reading's sake! They love reading SO MUCH that they not only read while sitting or standing in the train, but even while walking on the platform or up/down the stairs! they love reading so much that they don't stop while walking up the stairs at 1/4 mile per hour pace during rush hour as thousands of people are caught behind them, grumbling about the fucking moron who is reading "the corrections" and colliding with people while walking up the stairs!
wow. literacy is great.
or perhaps they've just extended the "no eye contact allowed" zone to include not just the train car itself, but the platform and the stairs as well.
when I was in 6th grade, we mercilessly mocked this girl who read while walking. sure, she was also a hippy and a vegetarian and never brushed her hair and this was in 1989, when that sort of thing just wasn't cool, but mainly it was the bizarre reading behavior. I think we need to start that up again--if I fucking catch you reading while walking in the station, and especially on the stairs, I'm going to beat the crap out of you and lock you in a locker for a couple days.
and then i'll let you out and make eye contact with you.
Posted by me at February 27, 2004 03:19 PM
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wow. a city full of sunsteins.
Posted by: rrc at February 27, 2004 07:28 PM