Seriously, that sucker FLEW! We were walking through the subway and this guy in front of us started moving to avoid this flying roach. When we tried to go around it, it followed us. We thought we got away but just in case we ran to avoid it only to see that it was actually in front of us flying with us! I’ve never seen a roach fly that far, was quite a sight.
It was as if I was in a movie or comic with these two shots. I was walking towards the platform and on the way I saw a Scientology table and their free stress test. By the time I got to the platform I saw a guy with this sign headed in the direction I had just come from.
Usually when people aren’t eating when they ask people coming out of the turnstile for a metrocard swipe. Seriously, makes a much better case if you’re not talking with your mouth full of Cheetos. This guy didn’t make a very convincing case.
If this is NYC’s way of welcoming me back then it needs to think of something new. This past weekend I was in Chicago for Anime Central. Last night we got home around midnight. The 2/3 and 1/9 station at 34th street is such that local and express trains are on different platforms. Most of the time the local and express switch tracks late at night so we were on the local track when a 3 train shows up on the other track. Like a rush of lemmings the people on the platform ran downstairs and back upstairs to find a 3 train announcing “This is the last stop on this train.” At that moment a 2 train showed up on the other platform and just as fast people ran back to the platform they were just at. We made it, but it was damn annoying.
It could’ve been worse though, it could’ve been a 4 or 5 train that then went to Bowling Green at which point we’d have to transfer to a Brooklyn-bound 2/3 train. I’ve been in that situation too many times and it’s the last thing I want after coming back to the city late at night when trains are infrequent at best.
Bleah, I hate this drawing, I have an acute lack of ability to draw with perspective which is why most of my backgrounds are completely flat (also it limits the number of comics I’d like to draw). Anyway, I’m always afraid I’m going to be the last guy whenever I lean over the track to see if the train is coming.
Sometimes subway service change notifications will require you to use a magnifying glass to read. Other times you need to piece them together to get what ultimately is relevant to your specific travel needs. We were trying to figure out why people were on the local platform still when it seemed nothing was coming there (in retrospect the E train was probably still on the local track). In time we ran downstairs and back up to the express platform to catch the A. Our through processes pretty much did happen at the pace depicted in this comic.
I sometimes like pretending I have a super human sensitivity to when the subway car is coming, but really I’m just waiting for the slightest breeze coming from the direction of where the train is coming. The consequence being that this reveals to me that homeless people still relieve themselves on the platform upwind from where I’m usually standing.
Actually it was two of the first kind of turnstile, but for clarity sake I changed the turnstile type. Yes the person actually swiped, tried going through, and then was saying to her friend behind her “What is it I’m doing wrong?”
So far the 2-3, 4-5, L and N trains all have new trains running, but the Q is the newest one that I’ve seen so far. The Q train also has the LED stop list inside the car that changes each stop so that you can see what stop is next.
Only problem being that most of the new Q trains I’ve been on say that the next stop is 59th street for the entire trip and nothing else. Also there’s an LCD display next to it which only works when it’s showing the big Q circle. Whenever it tries to show anything else it looks like crappy streaming digital garbage or a DVD messing up.
I’m thinking specifically if the old Chinese guy at Union Square playing what looks like an electric saxophone. I feel like whenever I see him he’s playing “The Godfather” theme. I know it’s a popular song in general so a lot of street performers play it, but do I always happen to be passing by when he’s playing it? How many times a day does he play it?
This comic is also a reference to the Joshua Bell Experiment. If you’re not familiar an experiment was done in Washington D.C. where they took Joshua Bell, who is one of the very top violinists in the entire WORLD and had him perform in the subway in Washington D.C. They wanted to see if people would recognize remarkable talent then stop and listen. Essentially he played for about 45 minutes and of the 1097 people who passed by only one person recognized him. Very few stopped to listen at all. He made about $32.
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