Sunday, March 29, 2009

Message in a Can

Unlike subways in other parts of the world, New York's subway has awful sound systems. Most announcements are garbled and unintelligible.

On the way home from the Metropolitan Museum of Art today the E train was held at the 50th Street station. The announcement that came through the sound system speaker was a jumble of static save a single word: patience.

For once, I appreciated the notoriously crappy public address system. This message said it all and did so simply.