The Guy and The Bulldog on the Subway

Here's an oldie but goodie that I found in my archives:

This guy gets on the downtown 4 train with a medium sized bulldog. As he stands against train doors, he turns on a portable DVD player and connects portable speakers to go along with it. Now the whole train has to hear his movie which is full of profanity. Here's where the Bizarro moment lies: he's also wearing headphones listening to music.

Someone taps him to get his attention. The man asks him to lower the volume since no one else really wants to hear his movie and movie guy has the nerve to get upset. As if. As with the lack of phone etiquette that some people are missing, there is no consideration for people who insist on playing either their music, or in this case their movie, at a loud volume. Put headphones on your DVD player. Oh right, you already had them on your music player. My bad.

Movie man acts in a way that the man who tapped him on the shoulder had invaded his personal space instead of the other way around. Union Square approached and I got off the train to make a connection to the downtown 6 train local. As I looked back, movie man was ranting and raving about God knows what as his dog just yawned and put his head down to take a nap. At least we see which of the two has the most common sense...Poor dog.