Subway Schmubway

A message to all New Yorkers.  If you’re a dick on the subway, you make other people want to be dicks to everyone else too!

Some things to try:

1. Check if your headphones are super loud when they’re in your ears.
2. Shut the noise on your stupid game off: we’re not playing it, so we dont want to hear it.
3. Why not look up every few stops to be sure there isn’t someone with a cane DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF YOUR SEAT? (not me, just always erked me)
4. LET PEOPLE OFF BEFORE YOU GET ON (just like an elevator… oh, wait.)
5. If there’s only room for 2 on the stairs, stay to the right!

A note on #4 – how much does it piss you off when you’re trying to grab that train waiting in the station and that stupid jerk who just HAD TO pass 2 whole people on the stairs is in your lane on the way down?!?

Advice For Life (not just the subway): Try not to do things that would piss you of if someone did them.  It’s likely that if you do it, you’re pissing someone off.

And why would you want to be responsible for that?

 

Thank you.

(This message was brought to you by Darlene’s Frustrated Commute.  The Urban Amazon approved this message.)

What’s In A Nano

Like most people, I came to appreciate the need for music and headphones much more when I moved to NYC.  The overwhelming sensory experience of the subway during rush hour makes them a near necessity.  So you can imagine my dismay when the hold button on my 4 year old nano (which has been on the fritz for some time) finally jammed ‘on’.  When it’s all hold, all the time you can’t push play.

So I tried taking matters into my own hands, and fortunately I’m not the only one.  Following the advice of this video I cracked the sucker open:

…and when I did it looked like this:

I isolated the hold switch from it’s external hardware; but sure enough it’s stuck.  There’s a fix, to solder the switch open, but I don’t have any teeny tiny screw drivers or soldering guns… so the question is: do I figure out how to get access to them, or pony up the $$ for a new ipod?