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Unidentified Chinatown Water

by Derek on May 24th, 2006
Unidentified Chinatown Water

The way I explained this story to a friend of mine is that normally being splashed with an unidentified liquid is suspicious or worrisome as it is. But being splashed with liquid when you’re in CHINATOWN is just about worst case scenario. I was actually walking up the stairs of the exit at Grand Street when some water, not a whole lot, but enough that it was more than a spray fell down over the fench onto a couple people on the stairway. The person in front of me got hit the worst, I was on the outside of the radius, but instantly I was having paranoid reactions. When I got to the top I saw a woman with a plastic bag so I still don’t know if it was just water or something that there was Chinatown food floating in or some other unspeakable thing. I know above the Grand Street subway exit there’s a lot of food being sold so the possibilities were endless.


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Subway Ceiling Water

by Derek on December 2nd, 2004
Subway Ceiling Water

Even worse, it was the Q station at Canal Street. Fortunately I didn’t fall on any puddles. There’s this one section of ceiling that always drips at the Q station right below the stairway to get to the uptown 6. Sometimes I wonder what’s above it. That spot has literally never been dry.


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Super Absorbent Towels

by Derek on November 20th, 2003
Super Absorbent Towels

I’ve actually pondered carrying paper towels for times like this. People won’t sit on a seat if there’s pretty much anything on it, but especially liquids. Either because you’re unsure what kind of liquids they are or because most people don’t carry napkins or something to clean up small puddles of liquid with. It’d basically be a free pass to a seat if I were to do this and run into a situation where I could actually use them. But this situation doesn’t arise often enough to justify it.

The worst feeling is to sit down and then realize you smell something, like maybe you sat in a small puddle of juice. I don’t sit down without looking at the seat first, but some part of your brain can still convince yourself that you didn’t take a very good look and there could very well be a big seat of sticky stuff which was the reason no one took it.


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Top 5 Reasons Not to Take a Seat

by Derek on July 19th, 2003
Top 5 Reasons Not to Take a Seat

People value their territorial bubble. Sometimes they think their bubble is bigger than it actually is, or make an effort to actively expand it. Some people may unintentionally expand it with their horrible body odor, whether or not this is ultimately a good thing for them depends on the type of person they are. Liquids on the seat can just be frightening sometimes. If there’s no visible drip from the ceiling you can only guess at what could have been the cause of it. It could be some spilled soda, and if it were something from a person chances are the seats next to it wouldn’t be taken up either.

The thing with people sitting in the middle of a seat depends on the body type of the person. It could either just be kind of natural if a person is particularly wide, or there are other reasons if a person isn’t wide that they could be sitting in the middle. First reason could be they have no regard for the people around them, or that there are two empty seats between two people and they don’t want to sit closely to either one of them. That situation only can happen in a train with long rows of seats which I don’t usually draw in my comic.


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