Subway good manners

Another complain that I received this week was about people spreading their legs on subway cars, even when it’s crowded. It occurs specially on the new trains, because the old ones (yellow and orange) already have delimited seats.

So today my friends and I decided to improvise this delimitation with some tape. We took the L train until the 8th avenue station, which is the end of the line, waited for the cleaning guy to leave and started to tape the lines to separate the sitting areas. We then quickly moved to other seats to try to disguise what we were doing.

Nervously smiling

We were using paper tape (the type that can easily be removed and does not leave any marks), but I’m that kind of girl who never did anything wrong, so the feeling that I could be “damaging” public propriety was making me really nervous. Specially here in US, where you can be arrested for basically anything.

Anyway, we were seating and waiting to see what would be people’s reaction and I guess New Yorkers are already used to any kind of weird thing, so no one reacted. I was just happy to see that all the limits were respected! At least this time! : )