Sunday, November 9, 2008

The city that never sleeps?

It's funny,  NYC is supposed to be the city that never sleeps but on the subway everybody does it. 
It doesn't matter what time of day it is there is always someone asleep. Old, young, man, female. Everyone. 
Some people feel self conscious about it and when they wake up they look rather embarrassed but most people don't care. Like it's the most natural thing. 
The other day I was sitting across from this guy who had two sleeping "beauties" next to him and they were both, funny enough, leaning towards him. You know when you're falling asleep and your muscle decides that your arm should move, that happened several times, no reaction from the sleepers, they just closed their eyes again. Also as they were falling asleep their bodies got more relaxed and they fell onto this poor guy in the middle. I'm sitting there thinking that I'd be highly annoyed if that happened to me and I'd probably get up just as they were leaning against me so that they'd fall into each other. But no, not this guy. He sat there and looked completely peaceful. Because sleeping on the subway here in New York is every persons right. 

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