The Subway Gloves

Ever notice that the people at subway never change the plastic gloves between sandwiches?  Doesn't that sort of erase the sanitary nature of the whole thing?  Not just that, but I then saw the guy change the radio station and open and close the front door in the same gloves.  It's like if a surgeon operated on someone before you without changing it around.  You might end up with part of someone else's intestine in you instead of just a stray sweet pepper that you didn't ask for on a meatball sub.  Someone should investigate this...

Rush Hour Monkey

Imagine your regular commute. Pushing through crowds, climbing down those stairs to the crowded subway platform. How boring. How uneventful. This commute could use a freaking monkey. That's what happened in Japan yesterday. A rogue monkey got loose in the subway station.

Monkey Express

Check out the included video. That monkey moved fast. Not only did he evade all those police nets in the station, he escaped and is considered, STILL AT LARGE. Rest easy citizens. That monkey still prowls the streets. Crime is not safe.

The Subway Seat Takeback

I witnessed a very interesting interaction on my commute home yesterday. It was a crowded subway during the evening rush hour, and one seat opened up. A younger guy offered this older woman the seat, and she declined it, so he sat down. A few minutes later, the train was moving painfully slow, so she looked over to him and said, "you know what? I changed my mind, and I'd like the seat now." He laughed at the comment politely thinking it a bad joke in the course of subway small talk. The woman wasn't kidding. She now wanted to sit down.

An interesting dilemma to be raised. As she would bring up, he did offer her the seat, wasn't it still hers to be claimed? He said something about how his back hurts, so he didn't want to stand once he was sitting already and apologized. Now, yes, I felt bad for this woman who had to stand with the rest of us during the slowest ride ever, but is there really a precedent for a subway seat takeback? If I offer you a bite of my pizza, and you refuse, then I finish it and you change your mind, I'm not about to regurgitate you a section to enjoy. I can't ask the cashier at the drug store for my $5 back because you decided later on that you actually did want to buy a copy of the new US Weekly.

Can someone request that a kind gesture be upheld minutes after the fact? I'm going to have to vote no. I'm also going to have to vote that the guy should have done the classic, "pretend you're sleeping so that you don't feel guilty seeing people who are older, more injured or more pregnant than you wishing they had your seat" move. You snooze you lose, old timer.