12.22.06
You Know You’re Short When…
You have to ask the guy in front of you if you can switch places with him because you can’t reach the overhead bar on the new Metro rail cars. I’m serious.
I felt like a total dork, but I didn’t want to fall (self-preservation on the subway Metro is Job 1, you know), and the new cars only have poles on the edges of the forward-facing seats. I’d heard the new cars were bad for people shorter than the average man, but I hadn’t experienced it yet. It’s a really poor design, if you ask me.
He was very kind, and immediately found an overhead bar to hang on to. The other guy next to me chuckled a bit and agreed that the bars are a bit awkward. Never let it be said that people in the Big City aren’t nice. Thanks, guy, whoever you are!
