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[jeremx]

ya know.. lightrailadventures.com is available. you can buy it at www.indiewebsolutions.com for just $7.49!

what?! hey, i gotta eat! (ok, i make about 3 cents if someone buys a domain.. ha ha)

[camilla o.]

I embrace light rail culture like a mofo. I spend 3 hours of my day on that shit 4 days a week. If it weren't for all the crazy stuff that I see I might have to buy a car...

the best public transit stories I have from the T in Boston are:

-seeing some sloppy drunk underage kid vomit all over a car in the red line. At the next stop everyone but the kid ran out of the car and into the nearest clean car. It was a mass exodus.

-seeing some insane high school girl fight at a station on the orange line. most of the people on the train acted like it happened everyday but i was horrified. i mean, not enough to step in but still..

-the best was once on the green line when it was jam packed, like people in every inch of space possible. we were stuck because of something on the rail ahead and everyone was getting cranky until some dude in the back pulled out a splif, lit it, and passed it around. Then most people, including myself, were happy.

[Jacki O.]

-the best was once on the green line when it was jam packed, like people in every inch of space possible. we were stuck because of something on the rail ahead and everyone was getting cranky until some dude in the back pulled out a splif, lit it, and passed it around. Then most people, including myself, were happy.

Boston ftw!

[chalupacabra]

-the best was once on the green line when it was jam packed, like people in every inch of space possible. we were stuck because of something on the rail ahead and everyone was getting cranky until some dude in the back pulled out a splif, lit it, and passed it around. Then most people, including myself, were happy.

Boston ftw!

Man. Usually I think Boston can eat a shit sandwich but this is pretty awesome.

[Jacki O.]

-the best was once on the green line when it was jam packed, like people in every inch of space possible. we were stuck because of something on the rail ahead and everyone was getting cranky until some dude in the back pulled out a splif, lit it, and passed it around. Then most people, including myself, were happy.

Boston ftw!

Man. Usually I think Boston can eat a shit sandwich but this is pretty awesome.

uh oh

pay no attention to him milla!

[camilla o.]

-the best was once on the green line when it was jam packed, like people in every inch of space possible. we were stuck because of something on the rail ahead and everyone was getting cranky until some dude in the back pulled out a splif, lit it, and passed it around. Then most people, including myself, were happy.

Boston ftw!

Man. Usually I think Boston can eat a shit sandwich but this is pretty awesome.

no way, boston is magical. here are some stories that people posted on my other board about crazy shit happening on the public transit in boston:

-I got on the 66 late at night at Brigham Circle headed for home in Allston. There was a woman kneeling in the aisle, looking like she had obviously dropped something that went under the seat and she was trying to get it, so I paid her little mind and just sort of stepped over her and made my way to a seat, but I did notice as I passed that there was a little pile of sort of beige powder on the seat and she was kind of, you know, fussing with it. So I took a seat and started to read, and noticed after a while that she was back up in her seat but still sort of fussing with something on the seat next to her, and eventually she scooped some of it up with a piece of paper, and snorted it. I laughed out loud, and the girl in front of me (between me and this woman) turned around with this look of "You see this too? I am not imagining this?" very clearly on her face. Then the woman scooped up and snorted the other half of the powder, and then sort of, you know, nodded off. And part of me did want to bear witness, to stand up and shout, "Woman, don't snort heroin on the BUS! That shit's NASTY! You do that shit at HOME if you're gonna do that shit!" But another part of me just wanted to laugh and think, ah, life in the city.

-I recall a story told to me by a friend who said that she was sitting next to some drunk homeless dude with a really long beard on the 57. He puked into his beard while he was sitting next to her. Not a ton. It didn't go on the floor. Just in his beard. Then he picked it out of his beard and ate it.

-I got stuck on the Red Line between Charles and Park St when there was that big fire down at DTX. They decided that they were going to evacuate us back up through the tunnel to Charles, so the conductor walks through the train towards the back to open the door. All of a sudden the train starts moving towards Park St. Everyone in the train was like, "oh, looks like they fixed the problem," when all of a sudden the conductor sprints back through the train going, "OH SHIT! OH SHIT! OH SHIT!" Turns out the Idiot forgot to put the parking break on and we were rolling down Beacon Hill towards the huge fucking fire!

and i like this last one because of the accent:

-have lost track of all the crazy mbta shit that i've seen, but a recent favorite was on the way to work on the orange line. everyone got on at forest hills and this methed-out townie lookin dude who was obviously up all night on a binge was already on there just like rockin back and forth wiping tears from his eyes. after the train got goin he got a call and starts screaming at the top of his lungs "JULIE, YAH FAHKIN CUNT... THAT WAS MY FAHKIN BROTHAH!! HOW COULD YA, YOU SLUT!? I LOVE YOU, YOU FAHKIN CHEATIN BITCH!! MY OWN FAHKIN BROTHAH!! I'LL FAHKIN KILL YOU AND HIM, I SWAHR IT!! I'M GETTIN MY GUN AND KILLIN YOU BOTH" etc etc. seriously, everyone else on the train were like moms and little kids and quiet off-to-work types and they all looked on completely horrified. it was awesome.

[The Real Jeffrey Lebowski]

New Years, Paris

No spliff.

[chadk]

Man. Usually I think Boston can eat a shit sandwich but this is pretty awesome.

is the big dig done yet? i actually had a lovely time when i visited, took the duck tour, ate dinner in north end (is that right the italian district?) this heavier set owner in a baby blue suede track suit waved us in to his resturant, it was very good, couldn't eat all of it so we when we were going back to the hotel we gave our left overs to a homeless dude

[chalupacabra]

-the best was once on the green line when it was jam packed, like people in every inch of space possible. we were stuck because of something on the rail ahead and everyone was getting cranky until some dude in the back pulled out a splif, lit it, and passed it around. Then most people, including myself, were happy.

Boston ftw!

Man. Usually I think Boston can eat a shit sandwich but this is pretty awesome.

uh oh

pay no attention to him milla!

Massholes. And that accent? Gives me the hate shakes.

[joe.distort]

last week this dude that looked just like Spike Lee (in his face as well as the hat and glasses) got on and sat down next to another (ligther skinned) black guy. when fake spike pulled out his phone and started talking hyper fast in another language ( i am not very informed in this department, i couldnt even pretend to know what it was.) the second looked over slowly and then his eyes bugged the fuck out.

like huge, as if he had seen a demon of some sort. maybe it was only funny if you could see it.

[The Governor]

i am going to make it illegal for brown people to ride the light rail.

[chadk]

when fake spike pulled out his phone and started talking hyper fast in another language

he could have been talking jive, though i have not heard that language in some time

Jiveman #1: Sheeeet, man, that honkey mus' be messin' my old lady got to be runnin' col' upsihd down his head!

Golly, that white fellow should stay away from my wife or I will punch him.

Jiveman #2: Hey Holm, I can dig it! You know he ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap upon you man!

Yes, he is wrong for doing that.

Jiveman #1: I say hey sky, s'other say I won say I pray to J I get the same ol' same ol.

I knew a man in a similar predicament, and he ended up being sorry.

Jiveman #2: Knock yourself a pro slick. Gray matter back got perform' us' down I take TCBin, man'.

Don't be naive Arthur. Each of us faces a clear moral choice.

Jiveman #1: You know wha' they say: See a broad to get that bodiac lay'er down an' smack 'em yack 'em.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Together: Col' got to be! Yo!

How true!

Together: Sh010039et!

Golly!

[joe.distort]

thats very possible...it did seem more middle eastern than that though hahaha

[negicore]

I got one from the T in Boston....

I watched this small asian woman board the train with a bunch of bags from the market. One bag had this huge fish in it, it was probably 2.5 to 3 feet long, no shit. She gets off the same stop as I, and no shit the fish starts flopping around in the bag. She calmly puts all her bags down, pulls the fish out of the bag, and beats it against the platform till it stopped. Amazing. My dad, who was with me, says he cracks up every time he passes that stop thinking about this 4'3" lady slapping a nearly 3' fish on the platform.

[donald]

I got one from the T in Boston....

I watched this small asian woman board the train with a bunch of bags from the market. One bag had this huge fish in it, it was probably 2.5 to 3 feet long, no shit. She gets off the same stop as I, and no shit the fish starts flopping around in the bag. She calmly puts all her bags down, pulls the fish out of the bag, and beats it against the platform till it stopped. Amazing. My dad, who was with me, says he cracks up every time he passes that stop thinking about this 4'3" lady slapping a nearly 3' fish on the platform.

that is awesome