Posts Tagged ‘subway seat’

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Modern Portable Gaming

by Derek on August 15th, 2011
Modern Portable Gaming

I’ve mentioned several times before my aversion towards most cell phone games because they’re seldom something that require much if any brain power. So far my favorite game has been Cut the Rope which is a physics based puzzle game that I’ve now beat twice. I don’t think anything else on Android that I’ve tried has come close to the quality of fun, animation and mechanics. I’m still waiting on Shibuya which I saw last year at PAX but is still only available for iOS.

Then I realized that I haven’t touched my DS in months and I still have at least half of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future that I haven’t beat and also I never beat Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks. Man what I wouldn’t give for another Picross 3D though.

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Boomberry

by Derek on July 29th, 2011
Boomberry

A while ago I did this comic because I saw a guy who had a pretty small boombox and was playing music on it while walking around in public. It wasn’t very big, so maybe it was more of a thudbox. Every now and then I’ve come across guys who are listening to music on their crappy ass tinny sound cell phone. I wonder, is this really the modern version of the guy with the huge boombox? Does it fulfill the same need? Was it ever about the giant boombox or was it always about just listening to your music in public?

Or is it just about annoying other people? If I had to choose between the two I’d take the guy with the boombox, because most phones aren’t intended to be used this way, especially when all you have is the crappy speakerphone speaker.

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Subway Snag

by Derek on July 28th, 2011
Subway Snag

This is pretty much what I assume people are thinking when they see a newspaper on a subway seat and choose not to sit down. Some people have no problem transferring the paper to the floor, but even more just keep on walking. I guess they’re assuming the newspaper was used to absorb some unknown fluid left on the seat because no paper towels were available.

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Subway Shouting

by Derek on July 5th, 2011
Subway Shouting

I had to take the G train to a friend’s place this weekend. For those of you who aren’t from New York, the G train is the only train that goes to and from places within Queens and Brooklyn and never goes to Manhattan at all. The thing is that it’s not used much, the trains are very small (they fill at best 25-30% of the entire platform) and also because of this it’s kind of a dangerous subway system since it’s not highly populated.

Anyway, the G train always takes forever to show up. Finally after what felt like 20 minutes it showed up, went a few stops and then announced that it was the last stop on the train. Actually, they didn’t announce it so much as they treated their microphone like it was an elderly person with a bad hearing aid. This guy was YELLING and the speakers were really freakin’ loud so it was super annoying. I almost wanted to go find the guy and tell him he was way too loud, but that would’ve meant missing the transfer train and maybe waiting another 20 minutes.

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Thank You For Complying

by Derek on June 27th, 2011
Thank You For Complying

This really happened, but it was even more awkward in real life. A guy with a push cart gets on the subway with his wife and shouts out “Can someone give up their seat for my wife???” They both look pretty out of it and they stand by the door. That’s when someone got out of their seat. A woman started going for the seat when this happened. Some people have a funny idea of what manners are.

After a little while the guy was mumbling to himself how tired he was. Then finally he said “screw it, honey, move over. I can sit down if you can just slide over.” Only there were already three people sitting and there was not a space to fit in. It’s not like the three people were skinny enough that they could squish, there was no room at all. But that didn’t stop the guy, so he started inserting himself even though his wife wasn’t moving at all. He just kept saying “Move over… move over! Tell the woman to slide over!” Finally the poor woman the guy was almost sitting on just got up because she could tell that he wasn’t giving up.

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College Smrts

by Derek on May 30th, 2011
College Smrts

Anna overheard two white guys on the subway having this conversation. I know it may be hard to hear, but just because you’re in college doesn’t mean that you’re smart. If only the 4th panel logic worked in real life because then English class would’ve been so much easier for me in high school.

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Blue Subway Seats

by Derek on February 26th, 2009
Blue Subway Seats

Not much too this, I just saw an older subway car that looked like it had some seats that looked like the ones from the new trains. It threw me for a loop. Any other New Yorkers out there see these?


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Deadly Combination

by Derek on February 3rd, 2009
Deadly Combination

It’s true, it was on the subway yesterday. It was one of those moments where I didn’t notice the smell until I sat down. When you notice a smell after sitting you can’t help but wonder if you’re sitting in whatever the smell is. Turns out I wasn’t, in all likelihood it was on the ground. Though that means my gym bag could’ve touched it too. Anyway, it definitely also smelled like chocolate chip cookies in there too.


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Subway Seat Anticipation

by Derek on March 27th, 2008
Subway Seat Anticipation

I’m sure everyone in New York does this. The train is approaching the station so you look around to see who is shuffling for their bags. Or even before it’s arriving and you see someone put their hand on their bag’s handles instead of resting them. Sometimes it’s a fake out though and maybe they were just getting ready too soon. Or they’re just adjusting their hands’ position.


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Subway Lounger

by Derek on March 13th, 2008
Subway Lounger

I always want to do this to people arrogantly taking up two seats in this fashion.


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