Grumble In The Bronx

This was relayed to me by one of my subway conductors, who said it happened to her when she was still new on the job.

She and another conductor are assigned to work the platform overnight. Because of track maintenance, the train won’t be running all the way to its usual terminal, so their job is to tell customers to go upstairs to a shuttle bus, which makes all stops at the terminal.

After several hours, she heads upstairs to get some coffee and is quickly accosted by a very angry woman who begins shouting at her about how she’s been waiting for the bus for three hours and they’ve been wasting all her time.

They’re standing on the mezzanine — upstairs from the tracks, but still very much inside the station. The woman never even went through the turnstiles. [Conductor] looks her dead in the eyes and says:

Conductor: “Ma’am, I don’t know how they do things here in Brooklyn, but in the Bronx, our buses run on the street.”

And she walked straight out of the exit.