Monday, November 16, 2009
Crazy People
So I was coming home this evening , the trains were packed as usual ...... everyone was in a rush to get home. I was busy playing solitaire on my phone, not paying attention to what was going on around me. All of a sudden I hear some really loud banging noises coming from the end of the car. This definitely caught my attention, so I started to look around... who or what do I see, this guy talking to himself and banging on the seat next to him. He was wearing a sheerling vest with no shirt under it, and looked a bit scruffy. At first I couldn't make out what he was saying, he started to yell louder and louder ,"Sheepshead Bay no Jews, no Blacks, no gays." I have lived in Brooklyn almost all of my life and never have I heard or experienced anything remotely pertaining to this type of discrimination. I have always thought of Brooklyn as sort of the United Nations of all the boroughs. Anyways thank god my stop was next because he seemed to be getting more angrier and angrier.
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Haha...Strangely enough after reading this I am not surprised whatsoever?!? Indeed, there is plenty of "crazy" in NYC, and subway seems to be their meeting spot. Even though I consider myself pretty calm individual, somehow I found myself involved in some brawls on NYC subway system, because of this "crazy". The worst thing about it, I would call the cops on such idiots, but there is no reception on certain stations, especially on long routes like between Dekalb and Atlantic, or Atlantic and 7th. Plus there are no cops or MTA employees to be found when these weirdos appear, somehow they "magically" disappear...
ReplyDeleteI agree, there were a bunch of rowdy high school kids on the train with me last night. I was also upset with the dumb trains. i was on the R from 23rd st going to 14th and the N was right across the platform and the ppl just got off and the R was pulling in.... and right when the R train doors open, the N train doors close.... Like why do they do that? they delay everyone? couldnt they keep the doors open for just 15 seconds to let everyone on? I had to wait another 10/15 mintues to go home =[
ReplyDeleteYeah, I agree with Nick. I seen this before plenty of times. What I find worse is the subway preachers in the morning. Honeslty if I wanted to hear you preach I would have went to Church. People squeeze in with no regards for others. Once, I stepped out to let the passengers off and the passengers that were coming in almost didn't let me get back on the train.
ReplyDeletewow! this is exactly why i made a conscious decision in driving into school rather than taking the train/subway!
ReplyDeleteDina, where do you park? I mean if you have the finances to pay for private parking every day, its cool, but otherwise it is a headache to come out every time and refill the meter...especially if you are in school for the entire day :(
ReplyDeleteNew York City is full of crazy, weird and disturbed ppl. u see a lot of things going on in the subway....discrimiantion, preaching, fight omg and the worst is when suddenly u find urself in the middle of that chaos. Sunday night when i was going back home, there was a hispanic guy, he was probably 45 or something talking loud and non sence words at least i couldnt understand him (besides he had some kind of speech problem)he started to verbaly fight with an indian guy. The indian guy was telling him that he will call the MTA employee so they can make him to stop or make him to get out of the (7)train, but that was funny cuz at the end the indian guy stand up and went to the door to call the MTA employee but the crazy hispanic guy push him away and right after that the train's door close. so he ended up being the one expelled out of the train lol
ReplyDelete@ Eliza, that is pretty funny and sad at the same time :)
ReplyDeleteBtw, I don't know if you realize, but people are unable to post comments on your blog. it is probably because you used custom template...If you want to change, just go to settings->comments-> uncheck "embedded below post" and check either "pop-up window" or "Full page" option...
OMG This has to be the same guy that I saw on the train one day!! He kept saying how he was German and he yelled "Obama may be the president but he doesn't rule the world, the white man rules the world". He just kept saying these obscene things and he threatened that he would kill her and shove a steel bolt down her throat (she was laughing idk why)and when the next stop came like everyone on the train rushed out into the next car including myself.
ReplyDeleteI think it's important to point of that the "crazies" on the train or the street are usually people who are suffering from mental illness. After working with schizophrenics I have a totally new outlook on these types of people. But even i still get freaked out from time to time.
ReplyDelete@Gabrielle: Wow, that's a brilliant way to have a car all to yourself. Time to get my acting chops ready.
ReplyDelete@Naju: I'm quite used to discrimination around these parts. I live in Bensonhurst myself; it feels like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place sometimes (by which I mean the two dominant races that reside here). I try to be low-key in public, but I still manage to attract my share of (mostly negative) attention.