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Apr 2 03: sign of spring #24,308
Spring is returning to the City. How can we tell? By the subways. By the subway train pulling into the station and one car, the car in front of you on the platform, has many many available seats in it even though the car ahead of it (which just rolled past you as the train was pulling in) was jam-packed. By the stepping onto the car and the door closing and the four seconds later your eyes start to water and you can taste this Seriously Funky Smell in the air. By the way you furtively look up and all the other folks are making eye contact with one another, the same looks on their faces, uh-huh, oh my god, that explains it, doesn’t it? Except for the one person, the one who is looking at his feet or into space or is asleep, the one who is wearing way too many clothes and has a shopping bag.
Stinky Bum Season has returned.
I’m not sure why this only happens now, as opposed to all winter. I think they must go somewhere warmer—and then return to NYC with the spring, only they come back too soon and they have to duck into the subways to stay warm. The one yesterday, he had a pong. Whoo. And he was the third in about a week.