Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Stoopid Subway People

Yesterday, I was taking the subway downtown after work. Just outside of my stop, the train stopped.

5 minutes go by
TRAIN CONDUCTOR
Attention passengers: The train ahead of us is still in the station due to customers holding the doors open. We will be moving shortly.

Another 5 minutes go by
Attention passengers: The train of us is still in the station due to customers holding train doors open. We will be moving shortly. This is why we tell you NOT to hold the doors open.

10 minutes later
Attention passengers: The doors have malfunctioned on the train ahead of us. They are taking the train out of service. We will be moving shortly and apologize for the delay.

5 minutes later
Attention passengers: They are trying to take the train out of service, but passengers refuse to leave the train cars. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

5 more minutes later
Attention passengers: The doors have been repaired on the train ahead of us. We will be moving shortly.

5 minutes later AGAIN
Attention passengers: The doors were repaired on the train ahead of us, but the train is still in the station because passengers are holding the doors open again. We will be moving shortly. Again, this is why we tell you NOT to hold train doors open!

We finally moved a little while after that. Most of the time, I don't miss driving, but yesterday, I really missed my old car.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Totally bet it was some dumbass tourist wearing a fanny pack and thinking "I can lean on this open doorway with no problems. What?"

Anonymous said...

Oh my God I would have had a heartattack being in a subway that long. Were the doors of your train open at least?