Thursday, July 24, 2008

It gets better.

I take the metro 2x every day Monday - Friday
I get on, hoping for a seat
(although usually I have to stand because it's so crowded)
Yesterday, however, I was one of the lucky ones.
So i'm automatically in a good mood because I don't have to carefully position myself between people like a human tetris.

Two stops right before mine a lot of people emptied out of the metro and this one lady (nice outfit, well-put-together makeup) gets on.

.........

And then she raised her arm to grab the top bar.

.........

And I saw something like this:


So Naturally, My face goes like this:

(thanks Corbis)

So i'm sitting there with "a little throwup in my mouth" and then....


SHE LOOKS AT ME


I'm thinking, Holy Cow. Awkward. What do I do now.

So I acted like my contacts were bothering me.
I don't think I played it off very well either.

8 comments:

Unknown said...

that's hilarious. thanks for the pictures...now those images are stuck in my head :) i was cracking up at my desk!

i'm glad you will be able to use that list of prayers! i formated it in a word document, made it look really cute (which it won't allow you to do on the blog), printed it out and taped it in the front of my bible. have a great day!

Whitney said...

Oh. My. Word. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Great visuals and hilarious mental picture of you playing with your contact. I do stuff like that ALL the time to avoid confrontation that I likely would bring on myself with my stares.

Meg said...

Sometimes I forget to shave my armpits when I wear sleeveless shirts(never that bad of course!)

melissa ellen parker said...

i metro too... there's always some fun stuff to be seen. My favorite is sitting on the same train with the homeless guys who's getting warm in the winter. Yeah, you feel bad for him... but yeah, you throw up afterwards.

I've had a woman use the bathroom in her pants..

I've also had a weird man scream at everyone because he almost missed his stop.

I've also been on there with what looked to be full on terrorists. No not just ethnically - but they had camo bags and gear. it scared me.

Oh - and lets not forget the guy reading a gun/porn magazine either...

Crazy stuff in these parts.

Hope you have a toothbrush at work. I DO!

Expat No. 3699 said...

I wore a sleeveless sweater to work today and guess what I did in the middle of reading this post? Yep, I lifted my arm to make sure I was okey-dokey in that department.

Anonymous said...

THAT is TOOOO FUNNY! My face would have looked the exact same way!

*Shudder*

I don't like hairy armpits. blech

Laura Marchant said...

OH MY GOSH! This is just too funny.
I think I wouldn't have been able to hide my shock either.

KatBouska said...

Ewwwww! Suppose you'll be looking to stand from now on. Gross.