SEPTA Blogs - Archive

I take public tranportation to get to work here in Philly. There is usually something fairly amusing or incredibly odd going on, and I like to comment on it. Here is an archive of Facebook statuses from the past sis months. More observations will be on the way as I find them:

3/12/10 – Decided to take the subway train that was NOT on fire.
3/22/10 – Had to sidestep what I’m guessing was human feces in the stairway to the train station in Havertown today. On a Monday. However I didn’t actually step in it, so could that be a sign of a good week?
3/30/10 – “Early” is not considered on-time when you’re a train. Watching my train pull away three minutes before it was supposed to arrive (from the street) did not make my happy. Its actually worse than being late, now that I have to wait 25 minutes. Thanks SEPTA
4/5/10 – My other job is apparently seatback for the woman sitting next to me on the subway
4/13/10 – Has been outside of 69th street for 15 minutes, and now a later train just passed us heading towards 69th street on the wrong track. SEPTA appears to be using the “If we ignore them, they’ll go away” strategy of problem solving
4/28/10 – Wondering what the deal is with the guy on the subway train that has a jacket pulled over his face. I see no paparazzi.
4/30/10 – Fry was right. The subway really is a mobile apartment without rent. Just ask the guy that was already on the train, sleeping as it pulled into 69th street. And then there’s the buster brown shoes with the big yellow laces.
5/7/10 – Wonders what the ratio is of temperature outside to odor inside the Route 100 train
5/18/10 – Subway trains leave approximately every 8 minutes. And if there’s only one on the track it’s not leaving yet. There’s no reason to nearly push elderly women down the stairs to get to the train
5/18/10 – Is curious about the guy on the subway train that is filming the trip
6/4/10 – Wonders if the air conditioner sitting on a handtruck standing on the back of the NHSL train had to pay a fare. Some days I wish my phone had a camera on it. The most important thing is its standing in my spot
6/4/10 – Was a little concerned by the guy on the train who kept repeating “I kill his son! I kill his f’ing sister! I kill them!” over and over again. Especially when he smashed his hand into the glass partition
6/8/10 – Sorry guy on the El. Didn’t realize this was your backpack’s seat
6/10/10 – Amused by the guy who walked right in to the El turnstile without slowing down, paying or swiping a pass. Its funnier because he looked really confused when he nearly flipped over it. Maybe he thought he was in the EZ pass lane?
6/18/10 – No better example of people acting like cattle then at 69th street. Why is opening the other door so revolutionary? No. All 50 of us will try to squeeze through the small doorway that’s propped open, thank you very much.
6/29/10 – Glad he didn’t get stuck behind the guy buying a SEPTA pass with singles, nickels, dimes, quarters and pennies
7/1/10 – Has “Checked in” to 40th street station and missed stepping in human feces by about three inches. Thanks God I met that quota for the week.