So I’ve been working overnight and weekends for the last 4 months. I manage 80 people who pick and pack your produce and we then send it conveniently to your house the next day. It’s weird working these hours. My internal clock is all over the place. It’s reverse normal people hours. My lifestyle has changed dramatically from what I was doing prior to this…
Tonight I got out early. 3:30AM. I generally fall asleep an hour after I get home after taking the subway home. At this early hour, most people on the train are either messed up from partying or are sleeping because they work reverse hours like me or they are vagrants looking for a warm spot. Tonight/today/just now was the craziest interaction I’ve seen on the train in my 7 years in nyc.
I’m half asleep listening to book four of the wheel of time series. Suddenly a woman busts through the doors between cars and heads straight for a man, also half asleep, opposite and across the train doors from me. She starts yelling, “I’m going to fucking kill you!” then she bites him and starts to hit him, real hard. I start to wake up, so does he, and he pushes her away. I assume they know each other. She’s small. Short cut hair. Pretty face. Super fucking angry. “I’m going to fucking kill you!” She hits him again, slams his head into the wall, she won’t back down. He pushes her away, really pushing her now, I sit up and am unsure of what is happening in front of my eyes. I just worked 10 hours of physical labor all night. I’m out of it to say the least. She hits him hard again. He’s had it. He slams her into the subway doors across from him, separates from her, then he punches her in the chin and knocks her to the ground. I jump up. “Woah woah woah” hand out stretched to stop him, one ear bud in, “Cool it man, fucking cool it.” I reach to her and she is face down on the floor not moving. “You fucking care now?” He yells at me. “Where were you when she was violating me? You want to get into this shit after what all she did to me?” He’s clearly all over the place at this second. “ Man I don’t know what’s your business, but you can’t fucking hit her.” and right then the train stops. “I’m out of here I’m out. Fuck this shit.” He says, then walks out. I lightly touch the woman’s back. She springs back to life. “Imna kill him. Imna fucking kill him.” Then she grabs her purse and runs out the doors too. I say “please be safe” as she goes…
All the sleepers on the car are more awake now. I was the only one involved other than the two. One vagrant closes the doors between cars that didn’t close when she went through. “He hit her?” He says to the other lady vagrant across from him. She nods. They both go back to sleep. I got off the train at my next stop. I walked past then returned to CVS and grab a 6 pack of Magic Hat. This is my current Friday night, at 4:30AM, and this is the weirdest thing I’ve seen happen on the train so far….
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