As we approach the midway point of summer, please keep in mind one very important thing: nothing works in New York City, and so you will spend your time sweating for no good reason.
Need to get somewhere in Brooklyn? Sorry, but the G train will not be running during any weekends until the fall. Why? The MTA claims it’s for improvements, but the service only seems to get worse and the stations themselves look like set pieces from the Road.
Would you like an MTA employee to help you figure out how to get around? He’d be happy to give you incorrect information as quickly as he possibly can, so he can go back to chatting with the other MTA employee with the bright orange vest who doesn’t seem to do anything but stand near the turnstiles listening to music.
This actually happened to me this past Friday night. A friend of mine who lives in Queens and I went down into the Bergen Street subway station, and asked the MTA worker in the booth if the G train was running. He was chatting with some dude in a bright orange vest. The token booth worker said the G train was, in fact, running, then turned back to continue chatting.
What he neglected to tell us was that it was only running for a few more stations. Then we were going to have to take the shuttle bus the rest of the way.
On the bright side, if there’s ever a nuclear apocalypse like in the Road, humanity will probably survive. Along with cockroaches, the employees of the MTA will mostly likely continue to live on.
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In this week’s episode of the podcast we discuss our favorite Jewish delis in the city. Yum!
You can stream the show here and at SelfAbsorbed.me, and subscribe in iTunes.
As always, please spread the word and tell your friends. And if you could write us a review and rate us in iTunes, we’d be very grateful.
See you on the shuttle bus.
Need to get somewhere in Brooklyn? Sorry, but the G train will not be running during any weekends until the fall. Why? The MTA claims it’s for improvements, but the service only seems to get worse and the stations themselves look like set pieces from the Road.
Would you like an MTA employee to help you figure out how to get around? He’d be happy to give you incorrect information as quickly as he possibly can, so he can go back to chatting with the other MTA employee with the bright orange vest who doesn’t seem to do anything but stand near the turnstiles listening to music.
This actually happened to me this past Friday night. A friend of mine who lives in Queens and I went down into the Bergen Street subway station, and asked the MTA worker in the booth if the G train was running. He was chatting with some dude in a bright orange vest. The token booth worker said the G train was, in fact, running, then turned back to continue chatting.
What he neglected to tell us was that it was only running for a few more stations. Then we were going to have to take the shuttle bus the rest of the way.
On the bright side, if there’s ever a nuclear apocalypse like in the Road, humanity will probably survive. Along with cockroaches, the employees of the MTA will mostly likely continue to live on.
***********
In this week’s episode of the podcast we discuss our favorite Jewish delis in the city. Yum!
You can stream the show here and at SelfAbsorbed.me, and subscribe in iTunes.
As always, please spread the word and tell your friends. And if you could write us a review and rate us in iTunes, we’d be very grateful.
See you on the shuttle bus.
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