As I was saying....it's really great news about the commuters and all, but where's the respite for the rest of us taking the subways everyday???
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We commuters have shaken loose the seasonal restraint of what we endure for most of the year. Perhaps Dante can get a byline for the NYT.
ALTERNATE TAKEOUT
Coffee shops deliver, did you know,
Danish and java or a sloppy joe
To auto owners sitting daintily,
Patiently, Buddha-like, even saintily,
While traffic agents make their way
Down the block in a morality play
Punishing those on the tsk-tsk side
Of the street where legal parking's denied.
Breakfast customers await
Buttered rolls at a twice-weekly rate
Leaning on the steering wheel
Of their Corvette, a sight in brushed steel,
BMW, Caddy or Ferrari,
Cars that never leave drivers sorry.
Breakfast for them takes an hour and a half,
Until it's safe to finish their 'caf
And make it opposite in a 10-second glide--
Only here, on the Upper West Side.
Coffee shops deliver, did you know,
Danish and java or a sloppy joe
To auto owners sitting daintily,
Patiently, Buddha-like, even saintily,
While traffic agents make their way
Down the block in a morality play
Punishing those on the tsk-tsk side
Of the street where legal parking's denied.
Breakfast customers await
Buttered rolls at a twice-weekly rate
Leaning on the steering wheel
Of their Corvette, a sight in brushed steel,
BMW, Caddy or Ferrari,
Cars that never leave drivers sorry.
Breakfast for them takes an hour and a half,
Until it's safe to finish their 'caf
And make it opposite in a 10-second glide--
Only here, on the Upper West Side.
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It sounds like everyone loved it!! How amazing. Great job NYTimes of only printing positive comments!! I am sure that there was no one out there who had anything negative to say about the experience.
This might actually be a PR piece for MTA/LIRR/NJ Transit etc.
This might actually be a PR piece for MTA/LIRR/NJ Transit etc.
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What incentive would they have to withhold negative comments?
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How would I know?
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Let me add my voice to the positive comments about the LIRR commute this summer. I actually experienced far less disruptions than normal and got to pay a reduced fare to Atlantic Terminal.
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This one really moved me; sometimes with the trains, you just have to laugh so as not to cry:
“ ‘I would say I’m sorry, but I know you don’t believe us anymore,’ he said, to a train full of laughs. We survived together.”
Tune of “Hard to Say I’m Sorry”
"Everybody needs a little laugh today"
I heard him say, while we’re waiting
"Now another train will get the right of way”
It’s doesn’t pay, to be hating
Hold on now. why take the time to say I’m sorry
That won’t make it okay.
Holy cow, don’t say it ‘cause you’re really not sorry
We’ll just laugh at you and say:
After all that we’ve gone through,
Sorry isn’t gonna do. What else is new?
'Cause after all soon when summer’s gone
The service will be great, you told us so!
“ ‘I would say I’m sorry, but I know you don’t believe us anymore,’ he said, to a train full of laughs. We survived together.”
Tune of “Hard to Say I’m Sorry”
"Everybody needs a little laugh today"
I heard him say, while we’re waiting
"Now another train will get the right of way”
It’s doesn’t pay, to be hating
Hold on now. why take the time to say I’m sorry
That won’t make it okay.
Holy cow, don’t say it ‘cause you’re really not sorry
We’ll just laugh at you and say:
After all that we’ve gone through,
Sorry isn’t gonna do. What else is new?
'Cause after all soon when summer’s gone
The service will be great, you told us so!
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From what I understand, there were several shootings within half a mile of the J'ouvert route early Monday morning and another shooting and several stabbings near the Brooklyn Museum at the end of the day. I looked at the Times last night, but there was no news to that effect. All we have in the New York section is the mixed reviews of police security measures. All the news that jives neatly with one's philosophy?
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And now even after three o'clock today, no news that the same old, same old violence has occurred.
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"sometimes models are paid in clothes"
Holy cannoli, this just goes to show how far labor has fallen these days without strong unions. I know that we all believe in capitalism, and American exceptionalism, but in reality, workers really do need to unite.
Holy cannoli, this just goes to show how far labor has fallen these days without strong unions. I know that we all believe in capitalism, and American exceptionalism, but in reality, workers really do need to unite.
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Interesting point, Billy. It seems like if you pay in cash, there are minimums that must be met in terms of dollars. But it's almost as if when paying in clothing, they're doing volunteer work for the experience and getting the clothing as an extra bonus and it's some how "Okay" to do that. Seems strange.
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Freddie,
Brought to you by a country in which interns do drudge work for no pay. New York City or state finally passed a law outlawing that, but I don't think there's been any federal legislation.
Brought to you by a country in which interns do drudge work for no pay. New York City or state finally passed a law outlawing that, but I don't think there's been any federal legislation.
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While I am sure the extended commute was inconvenient, "Summer of Hell" might be stretching it. Come on down to Houston and get some perspective.
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...and they have to wear those very hight heels that must be uncomfortable.
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not only are many of the female models' shoes uncomfortable, but unsafe & unhealthy. during multiple fashion shows, pictures abound of models toppling to the runway caused by trying to stomp in their 6+ inch heels. speak with podiatrists to hear horror stories of fashionable women's damaged bones & tendons caused by trying to fit their feet into mile high shoes, then walk in them.
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