I had just moved to the East Village (in the gritty-grimy-Guardian Angels days) and was riding uptown for a job interview. The train was in motion and through the door of the previous car came a half of a man pushing himself through the car on a skateboard. He looked like he had been cut off at the waist. I couldn’t…

That kind of wretched excess should be done in one’s home with the blinds down and sobbing from shame, as is proper.

In high school a group of friends and I once rode a bus with a guy who started yankin’ it; it horrified us at the time but nowadays it seems routine.

I think we have a winner. This is the new NYC bar to clear: did you see a brain? No? Step off. 

oh I almost barfed up my tea

I ride the el in Philly, what HAVEN’T I seen.

My cousin/surrogate father figure was a bus driver for New Jersey Transit for 30 years. Most of his routes ran from Philadelphia/Camden to the southern ‘burbs like Millville and Bridgeton NJ, so there was always a good mix of inner-city riders, New Jersey’s own special brand of provincials and every thing in between.

High school, on my way to school on a public bus. Got up at 5AM and couldn’t sleep, so I got on the bus at 5.30. It’s still dark and the bus had 3 riders. I sat on the long rear bench.

Fortunately I don’t use public transport that much and have never seen anything really involving bodily fluids.

I went to junior high and high school in the city, (NYC) living in Queens at the time. I was coming home from school and was in the last car. There was a woman at the front of the car, and sitting across from me a man in Jewish Orthodox traditional attire. He was jerking off. Looking at me. All of 16 years old me.…

I was riding the county bus home, and it was filling up as it was about 6 or 7 pm. A man sits down next to me and puts his backpack between his legs on the floor in front of him. “Don’t be surprised if a head pops out of this bag,” he tells me. Now, maybe I just read/listen/watch way too much true crime, but I…

There’s been a massive uptick in people smoking on the trains. Like anything and everything. Maybe not the grossest thing but still gross.

Folks on Twitter putting it better than I could.

Well, my wife of 10 years left me on Valentines Day 2003 after cheating on me, lying to me, and doing her damndest to manipulate me into leaving her for a year so she could fuck anyone she wanted to guilt free.

‘95? So what was the orange drink they served in the 70s?

1995? I beg to differ.. that was my drink of choice at McDs starting in the 1980s.

Agreed- maybe 95 was when it hit the “soda fountain” but it was certainly available in the 80's.  Of course in the 80s you didn’t have the self serve fountains either.  Maybe it was in more of an iced tea style dispenser behind the counter? 

Yeah, I remember having ‘Orange Drink’ with my very first Happy Meal back in the late 70's. Now, whether that was actually the Hi-C branded orange flavor could be another story.

I also remember the toy was some kind of plastic flying toy powered by rubber-band, and that it was just utter garbage. Ah, memories....

Yes, and 1995 seems too recent for its introduction? It dates back at least to the early 80s in the states in the “available only from a cooler” format — our local McDonald’s always donated coolers of this to the blood drives held at my high school.