Why, WHY do this city’s MetroCard machines continue to break down? Particularly on days that my unlimited monthly pass expires and I have to walk 10 minutes to the nearest station, where the machine is also, serendipitously, non-functional–and then walk back to my original station? I always thought this kind of thing only happened to me because I’m forever cursed with bad transit luck- (after failing to give up my seat to an elderly woman who went flying when the train started).
But really, you’d think that with New Yorkers paying $2 for a ride (and it’s only getting more expensive), we’d at least deserve working machines, not to mention cleaner stations and punctual trains. Oh well, at least most of us can be thankful that we don’t have to deal with this.
I got nailed by the MTA outage on Monday three times. Once on my way to work, once on the way home because I figured by then things would be working properly again and the one more time when I was getting off the subway because I just had $25 too much in my wallet.
Why, WHY do this city’s MetroCard machines continue to break down? Particularly on days that my unlimited monthly pass expires and I have to walk 10 minutes to the nearest station, where the machine is also, serendipitously, non-functional–and then walk back to my original station? I always thought this kind of thing only happened to me because I’m forever cursed with bad transit luck- (after failing to give up my seat to an elderly woman who went flying when the train started).
I got nailed by the MTA outage on Monday three times. Once on my way to work, once on the way home because I figured by then things would be working properly again and the one more time when I was getting off the subway because I just had $25 too much in my wallet.
July 31, 2008 6:13pm
Take a cab !