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American Splendor: Overheard on Public Transportation, or, Ways I Judge Young, Seemingly Well-to-do Gentlemen from Afar

amsplendor:

Red Line Rapid Transit, Headed North, to Howard.

A young, seemingly well-to-do gentlemen bragging over the phone to an unidentified confidant about the size of his penis. Not exactly appropriate train talk, dear boy. Doesn’t he know that the only arena in which public discourse on penis size is…

lifeofactacommuter:

Wednesday afternoon, February 15th. 
Woman carrying around a single golf club, looking ready to beat people.
She was walking really slow in front of me, but I don’t piss people off who carry about blunt force objects..

lifeofactacommuter:

Wednesday afternoon, February 15th. 

Woman carrying around a single golf club, looking ready to beat people.

She was walking really slow in front of me, but I don’t piss people off who carry about blunt force objects..

The Unbearable Sassiness of Being: Tonight I watched multiple women pull knives on a man on the train.

ifbythisyoumeanthat:

This guy was getting up in women’s faces on the train and trying to mess with them. A few women moved closer to these women and all had small knives and box cutters in case the man tried anything. They called the cops and the man was removed from the train. I wish I’d had something on me to help….

methylbenzene:

there’s this elderly chinese couple who play music together in the Jackson stop subway
i am always really happy to see them because they look really happy when they play music
i try to give them a dollar every time i see ‘em

methylbenzene:

there’s this elderly chinese couple who play music together in the Jackson stop subway

i am always really happy to see them because they look really happy when they play music

i try to give them a dollar every time i see ‘em