Idiot of the Week: The Sick Passenger
I haven’t done one of these in a while, but when someone makes your morning miserable, you need to direct your anger somewhere.
So, congratulations to this week’s Idiot of the Week: the genius who decided to get on the L Train sick at rush hour this morning, wreaking havoc on Manhattan-bound service for an hour.
Really, thanks a lot, idiot. I don’t know who you are, or why you were sick, but I really don’t care. The MTA doesn’t put up those posters about getting off the train if you’re sick for their own amusement. They do it because people like you are assholes.
It’s amazing how selfish someone can be that they would ignore all warnings to inconvenience tens of thousands of other people. Come to think of it, outside of the subway, there are very few other places where it’s possible to single-handedly inconvenience so many other people.
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February 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 am
Jaime says:If you don’t know what their ailment was, how do you know they knew they were sick before getting on the train? They could’ve had a seizure, an aneurysm, a sudden fainting spell, spontaneous puking, or any variety of un-forewarned things.
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:49 am
Chris says:Jaime: You may be right, but it could also be a sudden fainting spell brought on by being waifish.
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 am
amish says:Gonna have to call you out on your logic man.
http://eastvillageidiot.com/2008/01/03/thanks-for-the-tip-mta/
(Had to dig deep to find that, but I knew it was there.)
February 3rd, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Stealthnerd says:I hear you on this one. At least once a week someone gets sick on the 6 train, at either 42nd or 14th St. But ALWAYS just after we’ve passed 59th, ruining ANY chance I had of transferring and getting to work on time.
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:55 pm
AH says:sometimes the “sick” passenger is actually the dead passenger. If somebody has a heart attack or whatever and dies on the train.. they will announce it is a sick passenger. just FYI.
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Alyssa says:How dare they ignore the worst subway ad ever made?
http://woodlandcreature.tumblr.com/post/73635775/here-you-have-it-folks-the-worst-subway-ad-ever
That thing was horrifically Photoshopped for a reason, people…
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Sarah says:I was feeling total hate for someone like that this week…then I had an episode of spontaneous dizziness and nausea (yes, had breakfast, got enough sleep) and if someone hadn’t kindly squished over on the super-crowded A train to let me collapse on the bench, I would’ve been that person. And I was perfectly fine when I got on the train. Not even hungover!
June 25th, 2010 at 7:38 am
Educated says:Yesterday, I watched a “sick passenger” DIE on the Vernon Jackson platform. As was previously stated, its not as if the MTA is gonna announce over the loud speaker that a father of 2 from Queens is losing his life in the worst way possible, alone on the platform with 100 strangers, while he has sudden cardiac arrest. If work is THAT important that you can’t pause 15 minutes so that this man can get the service that he requires, without thousands of Gawkers, than you should seriously re-evaluate your life. I understand, as a New Yorker, that we are a City in constant motion, but lets remember we are humans and not machines. The MTA does not stop for twenty-somethings with Hangovers, it stops for a dead body on the tracks or people in need of immediate and Serious Medical Attention. Educate Yourself.. until then, it looks like your the Village Idiot.
July 28th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
teds says:dude, you’re probably not even from new york city. in retrospect it’s you settler colonialists from missouri and sayville, long island that are the assholes of the week, not sick passenger.