Saturday, June 25, 2011

Weirdness on the Orangeline

After watching the second loss in a row by the Mariners to the Nationals.  I got on the train to head home.  After getting on the Orange Line at L'enfant and a few stops later the crowd on the train had thinned out enough that most people had a seat to themselves including me.  Around the McPherson Square or Farragut West stop a drunk looking middle aged woman got on the train.  She wobbled around looking for a seat.  She looks at me for a second and then decided to take the plunge...right into my lap.  She was wearing bar clothes (short skirt, revealing top, and very high heels).  I quickly stood up which slid her off of me and sat back down.  Throughout the ride she kept touching me with her arm and leaning on me.  I just moved so my back was kind of facing her, turned up my head phones and continued to play solitaire on my iTouch.  I kept thinking, I only have a few more stops, I can make it.  Finally my stop came and I told her I needed to get off.  She did not get up out of her seat.  She simply moved her legs to the side.  I just stood there dumbfounded for a few seconds until I realized if I didn't get going the doors were going to close and I was going to miss my stop and probably miss my bus.  So I crawled over her to get off which is what I think she wanted.  I fell on her at least once and stepped on her feet too.  I was wondering if anyone saw what was happening.  I probably would have been laughing if I saw someone forced to crawl over a drunk middle aged woman who looked like she had lived a very hard life.  After riding the subway for a year, that was definitely the strangest experience I've ever had.

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