On the R train, I once watched a well-dressed older lady, with dramatic scarf draped just so, proceed to nibble daintily on a series of chicken wings that she produced DIRECTLY from the pocket of her gorgeous camelhair coat, and then deposit the bones in the other pocket. These wings were not wrapped or in a plastic…

Oh I bet drivers have the best stories to tell! My friend was a driver for Metro in Seattle and talked about how she almost had a perfect driving record. You get a watch with a diamond chip for every year you have perfect driving. Well one year she was in Magnolia and this asshat parks his car on a tight street in…

Bonus points for the surprise twist ending!

It pisses me off because you need a dr to sign off on bus passes and disabled parking permits here, and people think if you’re young you’re faking, there are certain drs and experts you need to see to get mobility aids, splints, braces, etc and people still say you fake it all.

I know your pain bro. I constantly get into fights with the drivers on our bus system since I walk with a cane, and I act as the escort for my equally disabled mom, and they constantly try to throw us out of the disabled seating. I even hurt my back really badly because a couple of able bodied d-bags took my seat and…

I had a temporary disabled parking permit while going through chemo because, even through I appeared healthy to the uninformed (I was 25), I was full of poison and could manage about 200 ft of walking before I very quickly turned back into a pile of grey mush. Pre-cancer, I kind of knew people were terrible but the…

One of the greatest displays of community spirit I’ve ever witnessed was on the L at rush hour. It was so crowded I could barely get my coffee mug to my face, but there was this woman hauling an obviously miserable six year old child who started to make little retching sounds, and someone else yelled “WE NEED A BAG…

I had a woman hurl ableist abuse at me on a bus.

Of all the bodily fluids one could encounter on public transit, I'd have to say breast milk would be my top choice. 

Well, I’m sure I am someone else’s Trimet horror story. I was carless and had to pick up my cat from the vet, so I packed him up in a little carrier and got on the 17 to go home. I thought nothing of it until I was halfway there, when I felt some weird ...WARMTH spreading across my lap. Turns out my cat, in his sad,…

I love brooklyn’s expression.

My friend and I were filmed once on the metro by a creepy guy holding a tiny camcorder in between his bag and his leg. I didn’t notice but my friend did - she loudly pointed it out but the creep kept on creeping on like he hadn’t heard. I also wish in retrospect that I had knocked the camera out of his fucking hand…

You didn’t bring it up??? I mean, I get that a waffle heavily laden with fruits and creams will sog in a matter of minutes, so I sort of get the urgency. But then again that’s a terrible take-out order. 

This didn’t happen to me, but to a friend who is a bus driver. My friend said the biggest part of his job is watching out for people to make sure they are safe. This was an evening shift in a rougher part of town, so he was on high alert. A young woman is sitting towards the front of the bus, when a sketchy looking…

About 15 years ago I was on the subway and saw a random distant acquaintance from college. The subway was packed and since we didn’t know each other at all well, I didn’t bother trying to say hi. She had seat and I was standing a little ways away. She took out a brown bag of take-out food, opened one of those little pa…

They likely wouldn’t want to pony up the $$ for Miranda. But jeebus - at the very least, send the script to a translation service for a couple thousand! It’s not that hard!

where is this spanish west side story?? has it been produced?

Well lord knows that there are no prominent Latino playwrights or composers.

The advice I’ve always seen for writing scripts with any dialogue in a language you don’t know well is to just write it in your own language and include a parenthesis of, for example, ‘[in Spanish]’ above it, so you can write what you want and someone competent can translate it at a later date. So... why didn’t Tony…

It’s a shame that Spanish has gone the way of Aramaic and there is no longer anyone around who Kushner could have consulted with who could provide an accurate translation.