Subway entertainment
What's the coolest/weirdest/funniest (you get it) thing you've seen or heard in the subway? Could be just people bein bizarre or someone doin crazy dance moves. let's hear it!
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I saw a guy with piercings and tattoos on his face. Some guy across was looking at him. Tattoo guy goes "What the fuck are you looking at?"! Other guy goes "You tattooed your fucking face, what the hell do you think I'm looking at, asshole?!". Tattoo guy begrudgingly cracked a tiny smile
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Flexichick wrote: I saw a guy with piercings and tattoos on his face. Some guy across was looking at him. Tattoo guy goes "What the fuck are you looking at?"! Other guy goes "You tattooed your fucking face, what the hell do you think I'm looking at, asshole?!". Tattoo guy begrudgingly cracked a tiny smile
LOL!
I remember getting on the 4 and there was this guy holding a radio and I think he was talking into a mic.....he was saying something about ass? I don't know , I'm sure other people have seen this guy. LOL , his voice sounds like robotic?? The radio plays a beat and he just says random things I guess , kinda like he is trying to sing/rap?? Anyway , I was trying to keep my composure while I was standing there holding on to the poll , but I couldn't.He sounded horrible. Me and this one guy were just looking at each other and then we both just started laughing. -
Well, I'm not sure I would classify it as entertainment, but the most disgustipating thing I've seen was a drunk chick taking a pee on a moving #1 train while her drunk friends opened their coats to try and shield her. She really had to go, it was rolling in the aisles.
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I saw a guy carrying a brown paper bag with a takeout meal of Chinese food. He kept talking to the food in the bag in a very lascivious manner. He said stuff like, "You're just teasing me with that smell, aren't you? I can't wait to get you home, I'm going to jump all over you." It was a strange and terrible sight to behold.
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Em26 wrote: [quote=Flexichick]I saw a guy with piercings and tattoos on his face. Some guy across was looking at him. Tattoo guy goes "What the fuck are you looking at?"! Other guy goes "You tattooed your fucking face, what the hell do you think I'm looking at, asshole?!". Tattoo guy begrudgingly cracked a tiny smile
LOL!
I remember getting on the 4 and there was this guy holding a radio and I think he was talking into a mic.....he was saying something about ass? I don't know , I'm sure other people have seen this guy. LOL , his voice sounds like robotic?? The radio plays a beat and he just says random things I guess , kinda like he is trying to sing/rap?? Anyway , I was trying to keep my composure while I was standing there holding on to the poll , but I couldn't.He sounded horrible. Me and this one guy were just looking at each other and then we both just started laughing.
OMG I think you are talking about the Shabba Ranks wannabe. I LOVE that guy. He makes me laugh every time I hear him. He has added pole thrusting to the repertoire. -
Wierd and entertaining story from a couple years ago. Got on the 3 at Grand Army headed to Manhattan. There was a guy hopped up on something (heroin, crack, i don't know). He was slouching with sunglasses and all of a sudden he pops up (still in his seat) and says really loud "yeah baby!!!" and starts feeling himself up and down. He starts going under his shirt and into his pants with his hands and every 30 secs or so he says something like "yeah baby" or "that feels good". At this point everyone moves to the half of the subway he is not on. He goes for about 3-4 minutes and he then slouches back down and is fine for another 3-4 minutes (looks like he is passes out). He then jumps up in his seat and yells "yeah baby!!" and is at it again. This time though he starts rubbing himself against and up and down the pole also. He then sits down and is fine for 3-4 minutes.
I kid you not, he did this same routine for my entire trip from Bergen to 42nd street. Each stop people would get on in that half of the train and be oblivious to why that half was empty until he started his routine and then everyone would come running to our end. It got to the point where everyone on our half were waving people to come to our half and trying to tell people to stay away from him. It was pretty comical to see people's faces when he started his routine, because when he wasn't doing it he just looked like a passed out drunk. -
It's the little things I enjoy.
The moment when people realize an escaltor is broken, especially in the morning.
When somebody - against all logic and common sense - fights their way across a packed train to a strangely empty seat only to find out that it has soda or piss all over it.
Stuff like that. Almost everything else is a nuisance, especially those "showtime" kids. -
there's this spanish-speaking magician who has a whole table set-up, including a dove he produces out of a pot. i'm never quite able to decide whether the dove is alive. turns soap bubbles into plastic balls. i've seen him cheer up some really tough crowds.
one of the times i was watching kids doing tumbling tricks on the Q train, one of them smacked his head really hard on the ceiling. he kept dancing. made me feel like i was in a dickens novel. gave him bills for sure. on the other hand, the tumbling is pretty awesome.
love the 3 older guys i see on the 4 around here. one of them looks approximately like bill cosby as doctor huxtable, one of them wears a fisherman's hat, and one looks like an aging snoop dogg. they don't even look like they'd necessarily hang out together, and then suddenly they burst into gospel harmonies. love them.
the gf once watched a strung out woman suddenly start screaming at a dark-skinned stranger on the train, culminating in, "you're nothing but white trash!" before being hauled off the train by a friend. the "white trash" lady broke the silence with, "i'm not white...." -
sweet tea wrote:
Wow, I saw those kids in like 2003? and the kid hit his head too! Could it be same tumblers? :shock:
one of the times i was watching kids doing tumbling tricks on the Q train, one of them smacked his head really hard on the ceiling. he kept dancing. made me feel like i was in a dickens novel. gave him bills for sure. on the other hand, the tumbling is pretty awesome.
I absolutely LOVE the mariachi band on the trains. It played on the B-train over the bridge once
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Mamacita wrote: I absolutely LOVE the mariachi band on the trains. It played on the B-train over the bridge once
Now if they played "Under the Bridge," _then_ I could get into them...
Although I did once have a mariachi group play a selected medley from the Lion King. It was actually rather cool, and I was moved to give money. -
stacey wrote: [quote=Em26][quote=Flexichick]I saw a guy with piercings and tattoos on his face. Some guy across was looking at him. Tattoo guy goes "What the fuck are you looking at?"! Other guy goes "You tattooed your fucking face, what the hell do you think I'm looking at, asshole?!". Tattoo guy begrudgingly cracked a tiny smile
LOL!
I remember getting on the 4 and there was this guy holding a radio and I think he was talking into a mic.....he was saying something about ass? I don't know , I'm sure other people have seen this guy. LOL , his voice sounds like robotic?? The radio plays a beat and he just says random things I guess , kinda like he is trying to sing/rap?? Anyway , I was trying to keep my composure while I was standing there holding on to the poll , but I couldn't.He sounded horrible. Me and this one guy were just looking at each other and then we both just started laughing.
OMG I think you are talking about the Shabba Ranks wannabe. I LOVE that guy. He makes me laugh every time I hear him. He has added pole thrusting to the repertoire.
Yes. Shabba shabba. Pole thrusting , huh? I haven't caught that show yet.
How about he young man who sells candy on the 4 train. He says something like " I'm not selling this candy for no charity or school , I'm selling it for me". He doesn't do any funny tricks. Just sells the candy , mon. At least he's honest. -
I love the gospel guys...and the mariachis....
and I totally know the Shabba guy.
There's one guy who does food distribution and says he's been working the F train forever (and he has!), but in his speech he always says "This isn't just for black people....we help Mexicans, Chinese, Puerto Ricans...." on and on and he NEVER says white people. Ever.
He also says if you can't give him money give him a smile (or a hug). -
A bus in my case -- I once spent an entire 30-minute bus ride in fascination, watching an old man sitting towards the front of the bus. It was raining, and the windshield wipers were making a rhythmic slapping noise on the windshield as they went back and forth; the old man was at first just sitting there when I got on, but every couple minutes or so, something about the rhythm would just make him start twitching, and then he would -- well, the only way I can explain it is that he would start voguing to the rhythm of the wipers for about 20 seconds or so. Then he'd settle back down; a couple minutes later, he'd start twitching again, then voguing again, and settle down again. Over and over, for a solid 30 minutes, on a crowded NJ transit bus. And no one else seemed to notice.
Then there was the old guy dressed in bike shorts and a "Spies Like Us" movie t-shirt who tried to instigate a revolution on the 1 train. I think he even started singing The Internationale at one point.
The best subway story I've heard, though, isn't mine -- the person who posted it eventually took down her blog, but I remember it well. She was commuting from Brooklyn to Midtown, and somewhere around Wall Street a couple of people got on and started preaching a hellfire-and-brimstone kind of spiel.
At which point our heroine got up, announced that as a lesbian, she was personally offended by this kind of preaching, and so therefore, she would proceed to sing show tunes until they stopped. And she then launched into "That Old Black Magic." The preachers tried to "cast the demons out of her," which just made her sing all the louder. They got off at the next stop, and the other passengers applauded.
And two MORE preachers, different ones, got on the next stop after that. Everyone else on the car started laughing, and she grinned, made the same announcement again -- a couple of guys near her cracked up. And this time, she started singing "Whatever Lola Wants" from DAMN YANKEES, and the two guys harmonized with her. The other preachers did the same "trying to cast out demons" thing, which just made the three of them do a dance up the middle of the car, complete with jazz hands. Those preachers left quickly as well.
I WISH I could link to this story, because it rocked. -
that's a great story!
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I like the guy on the F who hooks a pignose amp to his belt and plays "Knocking on Heaven's Door" on an electric guitar. He's also got another song in his repertoire, but I forget what.
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sweet tea wrote: one of the times i was watching kids doing tumbling tricks on the Q train, one of them smacked his head really hard on the ceiling. he kept dancing. made me feel like i was in a dickens novel. gave him bills for sure. on the other hand, the tumbling is pretty awesome.
If these are the same guys I used to see a million years ago watch the guy who tosses the kid. He smacks his hand against the roof of the car so it just sounds like the kid hits his head.sweet tea wrote: the gf once watched a strung out woman suddenly start screaming at a dark-skinned stranger on the train, culminating in, "you're nothing but white trash!" before being hauled off the train by a friend. the "white trash" lady broke the silence with, "i'm not white...."
Ok, that is hilarious! -
I just realized I started this thread without answering my own question. I always see the people who are taking donations of all sorts for an unnamed nonprofit organization . . i never believe them. I have also seen the dancing boys on the train, they are my favorite. "Please excuse the middle ladies and gentlemen!"
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dude the break dancers are my favorite. they started giving my ex gf a lap dance once. i've seen some of those people in that show. the bearded dude with the flute was at the Broadway Lafayette station the other week.
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