Weird experience on NYC Subway

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Rule in NYC subways: DO NOT ENGAGE

Too many times on the subways have I heard nutsos pull out “homo” and “faggot” as insults.

There's been one specific guy I've been seeing around on the trains for the past six months or so -- on several different lines -- who spends the entire time screaming homophobic shit. To be honest it was probably the same guy. I imagine he just rides the subway all day doing this. This city is enormous in some ways and miniscule in others. It made me uncomfortable the first few times I rode with him but he's begun to just seem like a fixture, some local color, like the latino moms with their toddlers pushing boxes of M&Ms in my face. Point being I'd be more annoyed about that sneering old hag -- homophobic dude is pretty obviously not mentally all there but otherwise seems harmless

I had people in their twenties literally rushing onto a train to literally slide under me as I was starting to sit down. And I in my mid fifties and with a cane at the time due to a aggravated sciatica. They just laughed like it was a joke. I told them having a seat on a train was obviously more important to them than it was for me. Definitely not worth getting into an argument.

I’ve had situations like yours, OP, where someone else will jump in to take the side of someone who I supposedly wronged, when I did not do anything of the sort. There’s something oddly unsettling about it. To say nothing of the slurs.

I love the really uncomfortable moments on the train when some pretty blonde thing thinks that crazy guy is just being friendly when he starts talking to her and her realization that the man next to her is a nutcase.

Bossy bottom. Big Mamdani supporter.

Fuck that woman. You snooze, you lose. What a false martyr. If she meant to take that seat she could have told you in an adult way.

As for the dickhead man, misanthropic creeps rule the subway system. Sorry you had to hear his hate.

A WOMAN, huh?

-100/100

Excuse me OP-

I have problems of my own.

[quote]Excuse me, OP - I have problems of my own.

Why are you using the NYC subway, Mariah? Researching a role?

Op where you from originally. Who says subway train?

Regarding R12-

I was on the London tube and the announcement said. “This train is going to Cockfosters.” I was very disappointed when I got there! False advertising.

I was deep in the bowels of the London subway long ago when a toothless old crone in mismatching patterns lifted her skirt to reveal dingey bloomers, then she leered, and made creepy noises to all who dared to look.

She was like a ragamuffin from a Dickens novel. I believe the gent she was with wore a pork pie hat.

NYers call the subway "the train" as much as they call it the subway. It would definitely not be weird to say both. He might have also said "subway car".

It is common to say, "I was in the subway (meaning in the system) at Broadway and got on the train just before the shooting started."

Nobody says subway train bitch.

They were probably tag team criminals. The only way to get your stuff is to get into a ruckus and knock you out.

Suck it, R18

🚊🚇

etc etc

When someone a third my age and assuredly able bodied pushes past me to grab one of the few vacant seats on the train, it irks me but I’ll never say anything. Though I’m not above standing over them and giving them some serious stink eye.

My own parents drummed it into me that I had to let oldsters sit. (Of course, I grew up in the Middle Ages.)

The irony is that when I am offered a seat, it’s often by someone who appears to need it as much as or more than I do.

And to OP’s other point, I’ve experienced more name calling experiences of the homo/fag and adjacent variety this year than I had in a while. At best, it’s unsettling. One recent experience threatened to turn physical. I won’t lie. I was terrified.

I’d never thought of carrying pepper spray or bear spray or anything like that. But wondering if it’s time to rethink that.

I had this butch black woman, power lesbian on the 2 train at Clark St, Brooklyn 7.30am. Train packed. Starts shouting that I'm invading her personal space. I shouted back that I was gay, no interest whatsoever in her, but that if she had a hot brother to give him my number. I also told her to try rewriting the laws of physics and to fuck off, or I might just lose my cool. Some cunt.

R24 No you didn't.

R25 I certainly did. I'm not American and don't do the sharing caring place shit.

r17 No.

OP - creative writing is not your thing.

r26 No.

Public transit? I’m not epileptic!

R27, also suck it

r31 (and your other odd posts) - at this point, you've embarrassed yourself, dear.

NYC: It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

[Quote] Nobody says subway train bitch.

I’m from NYC. I specifically called it subway train so people who don’t live in NYC could understand what I meant

[quote]Weird experience on NYC Subway

There's another kind of experience on NYC Subway?

I thought this was going to be a thread about cold cut sandwiches.

[quote] Starts shouting that I'm invading her personal space. I shouted back that I was gay, no interest whatsoever in her, but that if she had a hot brother to give him my number. I also told her to try rewriting the laws of physics and to fuck off

This puts one in mind of the Lincoln Douglas debates.

Who was this Lincoln Douglas person?

I hate situations like this. You’ve done everything right in your life—treated people well, been happy and pleasant with co-workers and family, worked hard to achieve success.

In a split second you’re in a situation that could turn violent. It’s oddly traumatizing because it doesn’t happen that often in our lives. We go over it and over it in our minds to assure ourselves we did the right thing. But we then get a little more afraid of life.

Next time, OP, don't wear pink.