<b><a href="http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/017563.html">This Season&#39;s Most Unlikely Friendship</a></b><br/> <!-- ID = 78399 -->MTA guy: Okay, folks, everyone out! This train is going out of service! C&#39;mon, mister, off the train! Let&#39;s go, let&#39;s go!<br/>Hobo, dragging enormous black trash bag: I&#39;m going, man...my bag tore. You got another bag? I need another bag.<br/>MTA guy: You want a bag from me? Damn! They hardly pay me anything, I can barely feed my family, when we go on strike y&#39;all get mad at us, and now you want a bag? Ease up, man, ease up!<br/>(pause)<br/>MTA guy: Hey, man, your pants are falling down.<br/>Hobo: Yeah, I can&#39;t keep &#39;em up.<br/>MTA guy: You know why that is? &#39;cause you got the baggy fit underneath the boot cut! With the straight cut in between!<br/>Hobo: I used to have an overcoat. I loved that overcoat. You should have seen it. I loved that coat.<br/>MTA guy: You got five coats already! What do you need with another one?<br/>[pauses]<br/>Hobo: Hey, you won&#39;t believe what I saw on the train the other day.<br/>MTA guy: What&#39;s that?<br/>Hobo: A man beatin&#39; up on his lady.<br/>MTA guy: Oh yeah?<br/>Hobo: Yeah. With his shoe.<br/>MTA guy: With his shoe! No way, man.<br/>Hobo: I saw it.<br/>MTA guy: Why didn&#39;t you stop him? You should have stopped him!<br/>Hobo: Well... He was a big guy.<br/>MTA guy: You should have stopped him! You should have hit him with your big Santa bag! Why didn&#39;t you hit him with your big Santa bag?<br/><br/>--A Train<br/><br/>Overheard by: Rose Fox<br/>via <a href="http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/">Overheard in New York</a>, Jan 5, 2009