Annoyances

[Tommy]

Have you found a place yet?

Wanted to start work first and get settled on the job before I start looking. Planning on looking at places when I'm back from London first week of Feb. Targeting a March 1st move or something like that.

[Tommy]

I really really really miss commuting in HK. The NYC subway system is the fuckn worst. It took me a year abroad to really appreciate how awful it is. Skipping stops on a whim, running at a snails pace, going out of service.

[Badger]

I really really really miss commuting in HK. The NYC subway system is the fuckn worst. It took me a year abroad to really appreciate how awful it is. Skipping stops on a whim, running at a snails pace, going out of service.

You're mostly dealing with the 4/5/6 line right?

[Badger]

When I miss the wastebasket next to my desk at point blank range.

[Tommy]

You're mostly dealing with the 4/5/6 line right?

Yeah. The worst. To be fair I haven't had to commute with it in years. Could just be this line.

[Miamipuck]

I took the D and 2 line and it was fine the last time I was there.

It was also during Xmas week.

[Badger]

Yeah. The worst. To be fair I haven't had to commute with it in years. Could just be this line.

Yeah, it sucked when I used to take it to the UES for work.

Do you get the swarms of 5'0" old ladies who come out of nowhere and storm the cars as soon as the doors open?

[AlioTheFool]

I really really really miss commuting in HK. The NYC subway system is the fuckn worst. It took me a year abroad to really appreciate how awful it is. Skipping stops on a whim, running at a snails pace, going out of service.

But they've just kindly decided to raise fares for you!

Yeah. The worst. To be fair I haven't had to commute with it in years. Could just be this line.

The E/F/M/G/R lines are a joke. F service has been consistently terrible for years now. IIRC, it won "worst service" multiple times in the past 5 years from the Straphangers group. Deservedly so.

There are very few things I will use the word "hate" for. I bitterly hate the MTA.

[Badger]

But they've just kindly decided to raise fares for you!

The E/F/M/G/R lines are a joke. F service has been consistently terrible for years now. IIRC, it won "worst service" multiple times in the past 5 years from the Straphangers group. Deservedly so.

There are very few things I will use the word "hate" for. I bitterly hate the MTA.

Yeah, I don't miss taking the E/F. Much happier on the L.

[Miamipuck]

Yeah, I don't miss taking the E/F. Much happier on the L.

You in Chicago still?

[Badger]

You in Chicago still?

That's the el.

[ons]

I mostly had good service on the 4/5/6 lines - but that was years ago. NYC still has the best public transportation system on this continent, though. Asia just has that excrement figured out much better.

[Miamipuck]

That's the el.

L EL El Al it's potayto, potato, Kurt, Curt

[Badger]

I mostly had good service on the 4/5/6 lines - but that was years ago. NYC still has the best public transportation system on this continent, though. Asia just has that excrement figured out much better.

I can't wait for the 2nd Avenue line to be finished. It should relieve a lot of the crowding on the Lexington line.

[Badger]

L EL El Al it's potayto, potato, Kurt, Curt

I actually got into an argument with one of my dad's friends over that. After Hurricane Sandy I mentioned how the L train was shut down for a week because the tunnels got flooded, and he said that didn't make sense because the el train is above ground. I tried to explain it to him but he wasn't having it. He was from Maryland so I was thinking "hey how about you take my freaking word on the train I take every day?"