Travelling by the subway each day, I see so many people, some of them commonly become the "subway aquaintances". All of them are so different, yet similar in one aspect - They all have the "Subway Face". This is supposed to be an impassive expression that you put on when you are in the subway, to show that you are indifferent, you have stuff to think on your own and you are not interested in their conversation. Nothing to blame, especially when you are packed like sardines at a 9:03 am subway train. You do not want to laugh at this really funny joke the person sitting opposite you is telling, since you do not want to be the eavesdropper.
It's not easy to put on the subway face unless you have something to support you with that, like a book or your daily metro newspaper, or your apple gadget. Unfortunately, you can not stare out of the window into the grey walls of the tunnel, no fun in that. I find it extremely hard to sleep, with the operator announcing the name of each subway station through the microphone. So that's about it.
Ofcourse, there are still guys who manage to hit on their attractive counterparts when you are sitting in a morning subway, looking groggy eyed and trying to maintain your subway face. Some of the pick up lines I have heard so far range from extremely lame ones to the downright outrageous. There were some nice exceptions where the concerned person seemed to like it too :)
Then there are these absolute depressing experiences, the ones that result in the best FML of the day and might result in a bad day ;)
As days pass by, you become well experienced in maintaining your subway face whatever be the situation.
2 comments:
Enlighten us with the best and the worst pickup line they tried on you? :)
@Shiv:
I had the experience of just 2 until now :P
The ridiculously lame one:
There's this place here called Tim Hortons (timmy's for short)...similar to CCD. So I was having an iced tea on the subway. This guy comes over and tells me he's too thirsty. If i could give him the iced tea i was currently having, he would like to buy me one at the next subway stop.
Argh!
The good one :)
Guy: Are you Spanish?
Me: Nope ( you must b kidding rite?)
Guy: oh u looked spanish. Btw I'm spanish.. I can teach you Spanish if you like.
It was his Spanish accent that made it a nice one ;)
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