So my boyfriend and I were stumbling home in a hazy, movie popcorn-induced junk food coma on Saturday night, and some lady on the L train suck a microphone in our faces and asked us what we thought about robots taking over the subways or something like that.
Next thing I know, we’re on NPR.
I had a bunch of brilliant, insightful, and eloquent observations, but of course they only used the one dumb thing I said. It is true though – I’m an old-fashioned kind of gal, and something about the old-timey nostalgia of a person-conducted train is beautiful. I love trains. I wanted to be a hobo when I was a little kid, until my mom demanded I stop telling people that and adopt “doctor” or “lawyer” as a career goal instead. I didn’t aspire to be either of those things, so I compromised and decided on “Las Vegas bartender/poker dealer.” I’m lucky my parents didn’t drown me in the neighborhood pool.
In all honesty, I don’t give a shit about robotrains. I give a shit about the fact that monthly passes are about to cost over 100 bucks a month and they’re still making service and job cuts. Go fuck yourself, MTA.
P.S. Doesn’t my boyfriend sound sexy?
8 Comments
March 11. 2009 at 12:50 pm
I’m with you 100% on the “Go fuck yourself for the price-hike” thing. Couldn’t agree more; especially in these fraught economic circumstances in which most of us will soon be on the streets, eating one another.
However… I don’t at all mind the new recorded announcements at all stops on the D train. In future it will be handy for cannibalism excursions. “Oh, West 4th – there’s good eatin’ in that neighborhood, now that all the restaurants have closed down.”
March 11. 2009 at 12:51 pm
You’d be … on board
(re: robots wearing old timey conductor hats).
I freakin’ love you.
March 12. 2009 at 10:29 am
I need to move. I live too far uptown/outside of Brooklyn for anyone to care what I think. New York is weird. When I lived in SF and LA, you could be cool in any neighborhood, but here, if you live uptown, people basically assume your idea of an awesome day includes shopping at Banana Republic, eating brunch, and having a mojito at a bar with 9 TVs in it.
March 12. 2009 at 10:58 am
It’s kind of unfortunately true. I will say though that the reason this woman was interviewing people on the L train is not because it’s superhip, but because it’s apparently already a robotrain.
That being said…congrats on being able to afford an apartment in Manhattan. Jesus!
Oh, and the reason I live where I live in Brooklyn is not because it’s cool, but because I have an ethical objection to paying 2 grand for a studio. I just can’t do it. I don’t even live in Williamsburg or Slope.
March 12. 2009 at 12:05 pm
I can’t divulge the reason why, but my apartment is only $1400. Or else I’d live in Flushing.
March 12. 2009 at 1:24 pm
I hate you.
Nah, but I do need to get myself one of these mysterious secret sweet deals that everyone in NYC seems to stumble on.
March 17. 2009 at 1:43 pm
I don’t want you to say you hate me, Kendall, but my first three months in NY was in a rent-free place on the upper west side and then I moved to a $500 apartment in Park Slope; long gone now, sadly.
March 26. 2009 at 3:41 pm
I wanted to be a “go-go dancer”!
Boy was my mom’s face red when, at six years of age, I let that slip in front of her dad, the Baptist preacher.