Shut it down. We have the winner. That is harrowing.

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…

you win with this story, though! winner winner chicken dinner!  what really makes this story is seeing it through the mind of the poor guy.  he’s standing on a platform, train comes in, shitty diaper flies out of nowhere & hits him!  oh, man.  what happened at the next stop?  did they both get off?  did some sort of…

True, but still unwanted.

I once had a nursing mother accidentally spray me with breast milk while we were on the subway.

I’ve ridden the NYC subway system pretty much 7 days a week at all hours for the last 30 years and I’ve never seen anyone masturbating. However, long ago, a disheveled panhandler came through my subway car with his penis exposed. I was standing and gave him a dollar and said, “You’re kind of...hanging out down…

The 70s were a more optimistic time apparently.

I never understand why they put cloth seats in public places, even less so on public transit.

This picture is EVERYTHING.

On a bus, I saw a guy stick his hand down the back of his pants, pull his hand out then bring his fingers to his nose and deeply inhale. He kept doing this until the person seated beside him noticed - he responded to her obvious disgust by sticking his hands in her face.

All the people have witnessed dudes jacking off on public transit should comment here.

Creeps like this get by because they generally don’t do anything illegal. You can’t get arrested or thrown off public transit for taking a photograph of someone. These people low-key love it when their marks freak out, partly because they know they haven’t done anything technically wrong and partly because they know…

Nothing too bad, just a dude jacking off at the Fulton St stop on a weekday afternoon.

I had a friend who had a drunk guy throw up in her hair on the bus. Any kind of bodily fluid from a stranger on public transport is the worst!

On the train, I started to smell something foul. I glanced towards the back where there was a young woman changing a poopy diaper. Not the greatest situation, but I shrugged it off.

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…

14 yrs ago. 11PM. F train.

This seems like the perfect opportunity to share this picture, which has captivated me for the past few days:

I was sitting across from an older gentleman with a viking hat on who was eating dried rice from a bag. A rude adolescent at the time, I couldn’t help but watch him, mouth ajar, since we were sitting parallel. He looked me dead in the eye and spit a combination of rice and mucous across the row and into my mouth.

I haven’t done anything embarassing *to* my cars, but the most embarrassing thing I’ve done *with* a car is stall at the entrance to the Nurburgring...In a rented 2010 Peugeot 3008.