<p>How to Take the Subway without being Annoying by Alix. </p>
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<li><p>Buy a metrocard. These are available in the ticket booths when you enter the station. Simply insert some money or a credit card to purchase a metrocard with the needed amount of rides.</p></li>
<li><p>Swipe the metrocard at the turnstile. Do not swipe too fast or too slow or it won’t work and people behind you at rush hour will be annoyed. </p></li>
<li><p>Stand behind the thick yellow line when waiting for the train. Do not talk to any hobos who may be yellling obsenities at you. </p></li>
<li><p>When the train arrives, allow the passengers inside to exit first. Then, step inside and take a seat if available, or hold onto the pole or handrails. The petite woman behind you will not appreciate 300lbs of Orson on top of her in case of a sudden stop.</p>
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<p>I love my metrocard! Don’t forget, you can use the metrocard on the on the buses too, and everything costs $2.25, so it is consistent. Orson, if you are in the South Bronx, you would be lucky because you could get away with taking the 4 or 5 train nonstop to Grand Central! I have to deal with the freaking 1 and 6 train for most of the island.</p>
<p>They’re about to raise the subway price to $2.50 =[ lol</p>
<p>Lawl, I thought he was embarrassed for visiting this website.</p>
<p>You guys pay $2.25 flat rate? Lucky bastards.</p>
<p>edit: Yeah it is horribly embarrassing losing your balance on the train or bus. You can’t help it, but you still feel like a moron.</p>
<p>Don’t let the subway intimidate you.
If you need directions, use Hopstop.com or download the Hopstop app on your cell.</p>
<p>my god, Orson, you need to grow some juevos.
The WORLD is overloaded with elitists, and quite frankly, you’re sounding like one.</p>
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<p>Kind of an ironic term, isn’t it? True though, everyone seems to be an elitist. I don’t think Mr. Swells is one though. He has too little self-esteem and sense of self-worth to be an elitist.</p>
<p>Whoever complains about getting an education in NYC of all places should honestly read about the world and it’s misfortune. Anyone who snickers at you for going to a CC needs a well deserved lesson in humility. </p>
<p>I attend a CC. I see kids who were born in impoverished third world countries and attend CC with hope that they can actually get the quality education they never had the opportunity to receive in their homeland. Will people laugh at them? Should they feel ashamed for not being fortunate enough to be born in a modern country? Should they shy away from CC because “that’s where the failures go”?</p>
<p>That goes for you as well Orson. So what if you went to an all boys school in NYC (Xavier or Collegiate I would presume?). Where you attended school is not how you should measure where you end up. The environment you have been surrounded with was simply not supportive. Whether that be the attention (or lack thereof) you receive from your parents, the social conventions you’re normally around that bred distorted values, or the dozens of other things it may be, I’m not sure. Whatever it may be though, find it, and do something about it.</p>
<p>You want to be successful later on in life? Let this be the first challenge you overcome. You’ll be worth more than all of the other students in your class put together if you show them you can still succeed in the “educational cesspool” that they think CC is.</p>
<p>Epic! That really straightened me out.</p>
<p>ps- I went to Regis</p>
<p>I’m guessing he went to Fordham Prep because he is in the Bronx.</p>
<p>EDIT: Never mind, guess he went to Regis because he said so…</p>
<p>Orsonswells is most likely a ■■■■■…</p>