EGGS, WAS THIS YOU?

[curiousa2z]

from the NYTimes metropolitan diary today:



Dear Diary:

Everyone knows that the left side of the subway station escalators is for walking or running up and down; the stationary stay on the right, and woe to the unlucky person who doesn’t follow these unwritten rules.

Time: Evening rush hour.

Place: Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street station, which has a very long escalator.

Observed: A man on the left side of a descending escalator doesn’t move while the backed-up people grow more and more frustrated. A voice from behind calls out, “Hey, can you move?”

Standee (also angrily): “No, I can’t. I have cancer of the blood, all right?”

Mr. Show-no-mercy/Possibly Eggs Mayonnaise of Teh Minefield:
“And you didn’t know it when you got on?”

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

LMAO!

I wish I could take credit for that Dorothy Parkerism, but when someone plays the cancer card my Catholic guilt usually sinks in and I slink away.

 

[Mentalist]

If someone plays the cancer card on me I'll convince them I'm a witchdoctor and charge them a couple of hundred quid to cure them.

Hey, I ain't going to see them again.

They've got cancer.

 

[Ishcabittle]

yEAH, DON'T USE THE CANCER CRAP AS A CRUTCH FRO NOT LIVING YOUR LIFE THE WAY MOST OTHER PEOPLE LIVE (except the dying). ASSHOLES.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

People with cancer stand on the right so healthy people can pass by on the left, it's a simple unwritten rule the world over!!

 

[CaptainWacky]

Maybe he was diagnosed on the way down by an invsible alien

 

[Mentalist]

You don't hear people who are about to get hit by a bus whining and creating. Mainly due to the fact that life is linear and so such mood dampners on events that only exist as concepts in the future are misguided.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I got the feeling he was on the UP escalator. If he was on the DOWN one they could've just kicked him down to the bottom.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

You don't hear people who are about to get hit by a bus whining and creating. Mainly due to the fact that life is linear and so such mood dampners on events that only exist as concepts in the future are misguided.

If life is linear, then why does that sign change colour in the next shot?

 

[Mentalist]

It's fucking inexplicable.

 

[CaptainWacky]

!

 

[curiousa2z]

I cant explain it.

 

[Dr Dave]

I blame Canada!

 

[whisky]

maybe the sign is Odo, perving over Bashire's ass.

 

[Ishcabittle]

Wouldn't be the first time...

 

[curiousa2z]

omg....getting a visual!!!

 

[CaptainWacky]

Don't blame Canada, blame yourself!