Monthly unlimited renewal day was today for SUBWAYblogger. That’s never a fun day. It’s early in the morning, clearly there has not been enough coffee in the picture, then wham! $76 right out of your pocket. That’s not a fun way to start the day.

It was funny and annoying at the same time this morning. Apparently, SUBWAYblogger’s MetroCard renewal day was shared by many.

Lots of riders went up to the turnstile only to get hit with the dreaded “Insufficient Fare” notice. The funny ones are the people who don’t pay attention as they swipe their cards.

You’ve all seen them. They swipe without even slowing down. Then they ram into the bar when it doesn’t rotate. This usually happens to iPod people because they can’t hear the beep. One woman almost did a complete flip over the bar!

Anyway, lots of people were denied at that gate, and needed to head for the machines.

My stop has a lot of machines, but people still act like it is a test or something. As if they will be trapped if they answer a question wrong. C’mon people, it isn’t that hard.

Live from the subway, back to you in studio…

When I arrived at the platform this morning, I pulled out the Blackberry as usual. I was shocked to find 68 new messages waiting for me…all of them comment approvals.

Luckily, SUBWAYblogger is designed to send us notification of suspicious comments before publishing them. For our regular readers, you can post a comment and it will publish right away as long as there are no links in it. If you do post a link, it will get kicked back to us to take a quick look at.

Anyway, wading through those emails took up tha majority of the ride this morning. Personally, SUBWAYblogger believes that spam programmers should be beaten in public. Maybe that’s just us. Of course, it is by no means our first encounter with comment spam, but it doesn’t ever get any less annoying.

There will be another post this morning to make up for our little bitch and moan session here.

Live from the subway, back to you in studio…

I just got into a subway car filled with French people. I’m talking wall-to-wall French people.

I’m not even kidding, there must be a 40 French speaking people on here all at once. It is a little strange. Just a lot of nasal sounding words being thrown about.

Ha…I just thought of something else. This is probably the only train car in the city with no republicans on board! Any red blooded republican would have immediately gotten off at the next stop. There’s no way they would sit through this. No, instead they jump into a different car to enjoy their “freedom fries” for the ride.

Upon closer inspection, it appears to be a group of students. Unfortunately, not a terribly attractive group of French students. Is this the French “goth” club? Most of thema are all blacked out and have funky hair.

Tell you what though, boy/girl teasing is annoying in every language. Especially the loud giggles.

Does anyone know how to say “cut the crap” in French? Live from the subway, back to you in studio…

I can’t believe what my ears are hearing…an understandable door operator on the subway car PA system!

She’s not only understandable, but very professional sounding. It is as if she should be doing professional voiceovers.

Also, she seems to have actual useful information! I know, I am as shocked as you are.

Instead of just saying “there’s another train directly behind this one, so if you can’t fit, please wait” she adds the location of that alleged train. She says the train behind us has just departed the [insert street] station and is headed for this stop. Now that makes sense. The great part is that people actually got off and waited.

How come this logic hasn’t caught on? The MTA Vice President of Meaningless Announcements should be fired, and she should take his job. We would all be better informed.

Live from the subway, back to you in studio…