.what you said.

Long Overdue Subway Story #1

And I know this is incredibly overdue because I remember this happened on the way to meet my boyfriend to go see Bruno, which came out in July 2009 (and he was late and we had to sit in the first row and really, some of the things in that movie you really didn't want to see that close).

I was on the subway, listening to my iPod and sitting across from a girl looking a little bad-ass but I didn't really think much about it. After one stop, at Delancey, the train stopped, doors open...the normal things. Right as that beep goes off, indicating the closing doors, the guy standing up next to the bad-assish girl turns to her and makes a single violent movement at her neck and runs out the door just as the doors closed, sort of like Indian Jones sliding under a closing trap.

For a moment, I seriously had no idea what happened and I actually thought he may have slashed her throat - it was such a quick and violent action I didn't have time to process. The girl, just as shocked, was grabbing her neck desperately. The jackass, in one movement, just yanked her necklace right off and bolted.

The men around her pretty much swarmed around her and one even tried to grab the door before it totally closed to go after the guy. The girl explained the guy stole her necklace but honestly, it was just one of the scariest things I've ever seen. I've never seen anyone mugged and very few times in my life have I seen someone do something so insanely quickly & violently. My heart just broke for this girl - I mean, you wear jewelry almost every day and it's not like your purse, you don't think about someone taking it right off your body.

I felt like such a nothing because by the time I woke up from my frozen shock, she obviously just wanted to be left alone. I wanted to hug her but then realized she was still a bit of a bad-ass girl and didn't seem to be open for hugging. I thought maybe I was crazy for being so upset but Greg agreed and then we watched a fake Austrian fashion reporter try to insert himself in an orgy. Which is really how every good story ends, right?

So yeah, that's my long overdue subway story. Another one tomorrow.....