{"id":392,"date":"2006-11-08T11:16:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T18:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/nyc-subway-mind-games\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T11:16:45","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T18:16:45","slug":"nyc-subway-mind-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/nyc-subway-mind-games\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Subway Mind Games: Last people on earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have this new “Mind Game”, every time I’m on a subway wagon, I imagine…<\/p>\n

“What if for some odd reason, there was a nuclear explosion or something, or this wagon ended up in another dimension where the only survivors are the people within that wagon?”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Then I start looking at everybody around me and start thinking of:
\n– Who would I fuck?
\n– Who could be the love for the rest of my life?
\n– Who could be a sicko?
\n– Who would be lame?
\n– Who wouldn’t survive a few days?
\n– Who would we eat in case there’s no food?
\n– What’s the racial distribution?
\n– Who would be a pain in the ass?
\n– Are there any lesbos?
\n– Are there any gay couples? would we force them to fuck the available women? since we need to keep the species alive
\n– Would there be +3 women per man? or Would there be +3 men per woman? (The latter would suck, we’d have to share wifes, yes I’m not a feminist, so sue me)
\n– What If I’m the only man in this wagon and I can’t have children?
\n– Should we allow ugly people to reproduce?
\n– Should we allow dumb people to reproduce?
\n– Should we allow sick\/weak people to reproduce?<\/p>\n

Endless questions will arise, try it next time you hop on the subway, if you’re bored.<\/p>\n

Certainly I’d prefer being on an L train if this happened to me, definitively not on the A train after 9pm.<\/p>\n

And come to think about it, I started playing this game every day on my head after I started watching lost.<\/p>\n


\nYou don’t want to end up in a wagon like this…<\/p>\n

Maybe something a little more like this:
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have this new “Mind Game”, every time I’m on a subway wagon, I imagine… “What if for some odd reason, there was a nuclear explosion or something, or this wagon ended up in another dimension where the only survivors are the people within that wagon?” Then I start looking at everybody around me and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,58,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeklife","category-new-york-city-life","category-random-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-6k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":371,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/betty-la-fea-en-el-subway-de-new-york\/","url_meta":{"origin":392,"position":0},"title":"Betty la fea en el Subway de New York","author":"gubatron","date":"September 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Ugly Betty - New York Subway Originally uploaded by Gubatron. 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