![]() ![]() Backpacks: If you are traveling in the oft-crowded subway system with a backpack, please take it off your back and hold it down by your feet. (Original photo via imjustsayin's flickr)Ģ7. Snakes On The Train: Snakes are scary and slithery and please don't do this. Leaving Your Dead Shark On The Train: That's just sad, man.Ģ8. Performance Art: Sorry you didn't get into Pratt but Subway University is rejecting you, too.ģ0. Transporting Your Christmas Tree: Walk it home, Clark W. Bringing Your Bike On The Train: Unless it's raining, you blew out a tire, or your injured yourself, keep your wheels on the pavement.ģ2. Bringing Your Surfboard On The Train: There's a right way and there's a wrong way. And while one must admire the above devil-may-care attitude, one must also be horrified at the thick film of dirt on those bare feet, which are now pressed firmly against a subway surface that your child will probably lick later, because kids.ģ4. Taking Off Your Shoes: Your feet smell, trust us. Besides, a personal washing machine is the NYC Dream, don't flaunt it.ģ5. But if it's your washing machine that you need to haul somewhere, keep it above ground. ![]() Bringing Large Pieces Of Furniture On The Train: We do understand that in order to transport things in this city, the most budget-friendly way can be via public transportation. Hanging Your Clothes On The Overhead Poles: See what's going on up there? Never do that.ģ6. It's SHOOOOOOWTIME! These guys have talent, but if you prefer not having your face kicked in, this is the last thing you want to hear on a crowded subway car.ģ8. Music Without Headphones: We're sure you have great taste in music, but no one wants to hear it, especially not blaring out of your shitty device into the acoustically imperfect subway car.ģ9. Busking: Buskers on a platform and buskers in a subway car are very different things, and both can be wonderful (from sax battles to that woman who belted out Beyonce), you know? But if you are doing something like, say, this:Ĥ0. Flash Mobs: Not down there, not up here, not anywhere. Bringing Your Inflatable Beach Scene On The Train: It happens.Ĥ3. Bowling: This includes both regular bowling, and bro-wling. They do, however, come up with new ways to horrify us-below, a list of all the terrible things we've seen on the subway system, ranked.Ĥ5. Still, "People literally never learn," Lisberg told us. In October we asked the MTA if they would ever consider an etiquette campaign in the subway system-that place where you last saw your Your Faith In Humanity, before it was stomped underfoot by a nail-clipping pole-hugger who just had to eat his tuna salad omelette on the train that one morning.Īt the time, the MTA's Adam Lisberg told us, "If systems all over the world have been trying and failing to curb bad behavior for decades, why do we think we would suddenly discover the magic bullet to get people to change?" Just last week, however, the MTA announced they would be launching a new etiquette campaign next year. ![]()
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