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Location: Brooklyn, NY, United States

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

no sh*t, stylie minogue.

Some - some, mind you, not all - nyc subway turnstyles still warn you that they dont accept tokens for passage through their steel tentacles.

now, considering that a) the julia turnstiles dont even have slots for tokens anymore, b) tokens havent even been sold since 2003 and c) the last tokens that were sold were only worth $1.50 - 50¢ short of the current fare - whom exactly are they warning?

are they worried that some dude's gonna wake up from a five-year coma, jump upright in bed, and wail, 'i cant wait to use all those tokens i saved up!'

the lcd screen might as well read no coins, poker chips, oreos, cheetos, or waffle fries.

and i really dont know why i went junk food-centric with those last three.

1 Comments:

Blogger Jeannie said...

thanks for writing about this. i always wondered this myself. is it for tourists i wondered? people who still haven't gotten 'the hang' of the metrocard? people who are trying to shove tokens into the metrocard slot? idiots?!?
i dunno. it boggles my mind.

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