The NYC Subway: A Model for Decorum

A woman blocks the entire stairway. The man behind her says: Lady, if ya gotta be fat an' slow, could ya do it in fronna somebody else?

--Union Square station


A portly Russian man sits down in between me and an Italian woman this morning. I bite my tongue. She does not: You're joking, right? You don't fit! You should just pick yourself up!

--D Train