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theories
It can be used to shield password typing from cameraphone video-ing.
Or to keep hands warm and toasty.
Probably the screen can be read in the window reflection.
OR theory 4) He had no other
OR theory 4) He had no other place to put the foam while he was typing short of bending it or putting it on the seat next to him (he seemed to be trying to do his best to take up the least amount of space possible, notice the bag UNDER his seat, not on the empty seat next to him) which is considered rude by many MBTA riders. Plus this way when the train pulls to a stop he slams the laptop shut, slides it into the bag and is off.
I dont think its all that crazy really. I type fairly fast but do so in such a way that my hands hover over the keyboard so this method of his would never work for me. My hands, at their highest are 3 and a half inches off the keyboard every few seconds, that foam would fly right off.
wow
I would never in a million years think to whip out a nice fancy computer like that in a subway car...I can't imagine it is going to be long before someone steals it.
Yeah, the craziest thing about this
...is not that he's putting the stuff over his hands, but that he's using a laptop on the redline in the first place.
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who and the what now?
Oh, Mr. Elbows Strikes Again?
Either this is the same guy or one who just looks a hell of a lot like him - the douche that thinks that just because he is "working" his elbow is entitled to half a seat on a crowded train. Now he wants privacy too? Get a booth at Starbucks, git.
Try it - push his elbow back where it belongs "I'm WORKING". No, you are a PIECE of WORK and you get one seat, and you stay in it!