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Video: Subway Rat Could Use A Little Help Lugging This Pizza Slice Down The Stairs
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Nell Casey
Published Sep 21, 2015
Modified Sep 22, 2015
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Published Sep 21, 2015
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Who among us can't relate to this determined rat, who just needs a slice of pizza to make it home on the subway after a long night pounding shots of Fireball? Do you recognize yourself in the glassy, unfocused eyes? The stumble and recovery that almost costs that precious pizza cargo? The realization that, yes, I will eat this slice even though I have dragged it along the steps to the L train?
We are all this rat. In some situations, this rat is aspirational.
Update: whoa if true.
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