If you have trouble waking up in the morning, nothing beats one of the frantic shoutouts from an Orange Line operator to people messing with train doors. David Weininger tweets this morning:
Just heard from very distressed MBTA operator on Orange Line: "Don't throw your baby through the doors, please."
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Reminds me of a song
By Kaz
Fri, 10/15/2010 - 11:07am
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be doorstops.
Er, something like that...
Good one!
By Chris Helms
Fri, 10/15/2010 - 3:48pm
I was trying to come up with one, but couldn´t get it to scan right. You nailed it!
Stay local!
By Dan Atkinson
Fri, 10/15/2010 - 5:16pm
The Charles River Valley Boys are fine with baby-related violence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GNZUopyTZc
Target Practice
By MovingForwardor...
Fri, 10/15/2010 - 12:24pm
I thought that parents of gang-bangers were raising their kids to be targets.
Are they running with one operator now?
By Mark-
Fri, 10/15/2010 - 4:29pm
I was on the Orange Line last week and one door operator sounded especially frazzled, yelling at people to "stand clear of the doors" before half of them got into the car. Plus she was leaning on the door-closing switch so it was going di-di-di-di-ding-ding at every stop. When I got out at Forest Hills I looked in the 4th car to see who the Type A door guard was, and didn't see anybody. So I'm wondering, did the MBTA actually implement its plan to lay off the Orange Line door guards?
Were they laid off or reassigned?
By adamg
Fri, 10/15/2010 - 4:35pm
In any case, yes, Orange Line trains are now run by a single person. And I've ridden with Yelling Woman. She's very excitable.
In event of an actual
By anon
Fri, 10/15/2010 - 4:38pm
In event of an actual emergency, will she suddenly become level-headed?
I've not yet ridden with
By roadman
Mon, 10/18/2010 - 1:07pm
Yelling Woman. But I've heard her more than once from the Green Line westbound (inbound) platform at North Station as she was running a northbound (outbound) Orange Line train.
Proof that voices carry
The Driver Should Be More Careful
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 10/15/2010 - 4:34pm
you know, those little brains aren't fully formed and it isn't the baby's fault if it just sticks his or her own little head into the door so the T should operate so that this doesn't happen ... oh, nevermind.