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31 August 2006

And the wigs come off So, I work mad early in the morning,[More:] at least by my standards, so I'm used to seeing all kinds of things during my commute. There's usually the well dressed dude passed out in the station "waiting" for the train from the night before, the woman adjusting her top for her walk-of-shame ride home, and so on. Today, however, was a first. There was an all out trany fight on the subway. I had my headphones on so I missed what it was all about, but there was a lot of finger wagging, clapping along to the syllables of their insults, and "bitch, please! bitch, PLEASE!!"-ing going on before the windmill punches started flying. It was horrible, wigs.....everywhere.

So just curious, what's the weirdest thing you've all seen at odd hours of the night/morning?
post by: dno at: 06:54 | 9 comments
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posted by sciurus 31 August | 07:01
So you took photos, right? RIGHT?
posted by iconomy 31 August | 07:14
Wow. That is quite the commute. I have absolutely nothing to contribute!
posted by richat 31 August | 07:21
I'm constantly lamenting the state of human "civilization" yet I'd pay to have seen that.
*siigh*
posted by shane 31 August | 07:55
I work in the West Village so tranny fights are a regular occurence. There's also mumbling homeless guys, panhandling gutterpunks, and since there's some kind of agency for the deaf nearby, there's usually pairs of people arguing furiously with their hands. I also once overheard this rotund thugged-out guy saying 'I'll just keep my nuts shaved and everything'll be fine,' into his cellphone on Charlton Street early one morning.
posted by jonmc 31 August | 08:10
Two DC Metro stories.

1: Waaaay early in the morning (my car had broken down, I had been on a bus to a train to a train), two guys obnoxiously tripping balls and just screaming that nobody else knew. The looks of doom everyone else was shooting them.

2: Sitting behind two women talking. .. flowered dresses, big hair, and the one said "I was younger, I was prettier, I was everything she wasn't."
posted by rainbaby 31 August | 10:38
I think it's going to be hard to top flying wigs.

And given that my current commute is from the bedroom to the living room, with the cat as the only being I see en route, I'm not even gonna try.
posted by occhiblu 31 August | 10:44
How about a tranny hooker taking a hearty dump on your stoop and toking thoughtfully on a crack pipe at the same time? Ahhh, Roosevelt avenue...
posted by Divine_Wino 31 August | 11:50
I've lived in D.C., San Francisco, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Hamburg. in Cincy I lived over the rhine (where the riots were in '00) and in Hamburg I lived just off the Reeperbahn.

so yea, I've seen my share of weirdness. but flying wigs pretty much wins this thread.

on review: my commute this morning sucked. I got hit by a car... tho I locked it up hard and increased my trackskid-fu by about 20dp, I still managed to flat the rear tyre AND drop my chain. actually *I* tagged the car, but since he cut me off to make a right turn without adequate clearance, the whole who-hit-who argument is, IMO, moot

had I not tagged the car, I'd sure be in worse shape cos I'd have hit the ground, but damn does it ALWAYS have to be on the same shoulder I separated in a bike race a few years back?
posted by lonefrontranger 31 August | 15:24
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