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Pigs On The Subway
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I just read a story on NBC New York about a fistfight on the NYC subway. Believe it or not, something like that is not actually common, although what prompted the fight is frustratingly common.
Apparently, one woman started coughing without covering her mouth, prompting another woman, worried about the Swine Flu, to reprimand her (so to speak; after all, being NYC, I would probably not rule out vulgarity) for her lack of etiquette and consideration. The reprimanded woman obviously didn’t like to be reprimanded because she responded by spitting on the “reprimander”. One thing let to another and a fistfight broke out, also involving one of the women dragging the other to the floor by her hair.
In general I would either stay away from some other people’s fight on the subway (or, if it involved some gross injustice, I might try to stop it). In this case, though, I probably would have joined in and helped beat that coughing woman silly. Why? Because I’m absolutely fed up with the lack of etiquette and consideration on the subway today, and sick people are only the tip of the iceberg.
To paraphrase the hundreds of posters all over the MTA transit system say: if you’re sick, stay home (or at least don’t ride the subways and buses). After all, you’re in a small, closed car for a long period of time with vulnerable strangers, including pregnant women, children, and the elderly… all of whom can suffer from further complications if they catch the germs that you’re spewing all over the place every time you sneeze and cough.
If you insist on going to work anyway (or wherever else you’re going) and you can’t find any alternative mode of transportation, or if you have no choice for one reason or another, at least do it at a time when the trains would be mostly empty and make sure to have plenty of tissues on hand in your hand.
But, as I said, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
What I find at least as disgusting are those pigs who think the subway car is their private bathroom. You know the ones I’m talking about. The ones who have no compunction about whipping out their nail clippers and sending nail clippings flying all over the place.
In fact, just this morning, I had to change seats because the woman next to me suddenly pulled out a nail file and started spraying pulverized nail dust all over the place to the point where I actually saw a layer starting to form on my attache case. I gave her a look of disgust and moved across the subway car to a somewhat less filthy location.
And just last week, there was some inconsiderate pig clipping his nails, the incessant CLIP… CLIP… CLIP… making me want to throw something at his head, especially when I literally saw a nail clipping go flying past me. I am not making this up.
But, the mother of all pigs has to be the woman I saw several years ago (this memory has unfortunately been burned into my brain) who apparently thought nothing of tweezing her nose hairs right there in the subway car. Yes, you read that correctly: TWEEZING HER NOSE HAIRS. I wanted so badly to bump her hard while the tweezers were in position, hard enough to send those tweezers straight up her nose and into her brain… but I didn’t want to run the risk of getting one of those hairs anywhere on me, so I remained very, very far away from her.
I have many stories… and anyone else who has ever ridden the NYC subway probably has plenty of their own… but, to come back to my point: I fully support the woman who started the fistfight and I hope she put the other woman in the hospital long enough to keep her off the train until she learns manners.
It’s high time these inconsiderate pigs learned a lesson.