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Snow Boot-Wearing Woman Turns Subway Seats Into Chaise Lounge
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Jen Carlson
Published Feb 13, 2014
Modified Feb 13, 2014
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Photo by Will Parker
There's a lot of snow out there, you just walked all the way through it to get on the goddamn subway so you could go to your thankless job. Later, when you return home, it's going to be just as bad if not worse. Next week we'll probably have four more of these. Everyone feels your pain, lady. But we can get through this thing together if we just act like considerate human beings. For starters, don't get on a rush hour subway and kick back in your snow boots like the entire bench is your own personal chaise lounge. Your back may be turned against your fellow straphangers—as you wistfully gaze out the window and gossip with your girlfriend on the phone—but their eyes are burning daggers through it.
Will Parker sent us this photo, taken on the Manhattan-bound M train at 9:30 a.m.—he tells us it was "crowded-ish, and people getting on after the Myrtle Ave stop had no seat." He was, however, unable to explain how this woman's boots had no sign of having walked through any snow.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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