Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Open Letter to the lady on the subway

Dear lady in the red and black skirt and denim jacket, southbound on Yonge just after 6 pm:

Taking your shoes off and then putting your feet up to take up three seats is just not cool, especially not during rush hour when people are standing. Even if your feet are sore, even if you are injured, you just aren't three seats' worth of special. Not during rush hour. If it actually is absolutely strictly necessary to keep your legs horizontal, take a cab or wait until rush hour is over.

By the way, you are very fortunate that my stealth photography skills are not very good, because I did attempt to take a picture of you and fully intended to post it here. Others have since suggested that the stealth wasn't strictly necessary, so maybe next time you will get hollabacked.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Go, girl!

laura k said...

I wish you had taken the photo.

I've never seen that in Toronto (although I am not on the subway frequently here). It happens **all the time** in NYC, and is infuriating and disgusting.

impudent strumpet said...

I've seen it a couple of times before in TO, but never during rush hour while there were people standing up.