Sliding Wednesday One-Liners

Conductor, exasperated: We have a train directly behind this one. Why you are holding the doors, why?

–1 Train

Overheard by: JBeck

Conductor, after unsuccessfully trying to close doors many times: Okay, listen up people… The subway cannot move if the doors can't close. So take a deep breath, suck it in, and when the doors close you can let it out!

–6 Train

Overheard by: Valerie Leventhal

Conductor: Please, ladies and gentlemen, appeal to your sense of humanity and do not block the doorways.

–F Train

Conductor to himself, after leaning out and watching people squeeze through doors: You people are killing me.

–F Train

Overheard by: Adam P. Murphy