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Is Our Tourists Learning?

Blonde tourist (after swiping futilely a few times): How do I swipe this?
New Yorker (looks at card in tourist's hand): That's not a Metrocard, that's your room key.

–E Train

Overheard by: Laura

  • Posted on July 31, 2008
  • Ahhh! Real New Yorkers, Compare/Contrast, Default, On the Subway, Public Transportation, Questions, Stupidity, Tourists, Women
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