Wednesday, June 25, 2008

NYC iN aLl ItS gLoRy...

I somehow always manage to be at the wrong place at the wrong time but I can’t help it…
So these days I am supposed to arrive at the hospital by 6:30 in the morning and it takes me an hour to get there…so yes that means that the sun doesn’t even come up when my alarm goes off…
Well like every morning I struggle to get up…sleep in the shower…put on my scrubs… (thank God I don’t have to think about what to wear…that would be a disaster!)…put my hair in a half a** bun…and walk out the door…so basically I do the whole “messy, who cares what I look like” look (of course I regret it every morning when I get to the hospital and all the other girls in my rotation look like they are about to go to a photo shoot even with scrubs on!)
Anyway back to the actual story….so I get on the bus and get to the subway station…walk down the stairs and there is a homeless man sitting on the stairs…sadly nothing out of the ordinary…he says good morning beautiful…I just walk past by….and go to wait for the subway…so as I am standing there I can feel him staring at me...kinda creepy but whatever…so the train arrives and I walk in…the same man from the stairs comes running into my section…he sits across from me at first and then gets up and comes sits next to me….mind you there are like 30 open seats all around…there a few other people on the train already but all passed out because of course normal people are still sleeping at this time…so I start freaking out a little…he grabs my arm and tries to put his head on my shoulder…my instant reaction was to bolt up off my seat as I say “let go”…my heart is racing fast…I walk to the other end of cart….as he yells “hey, hey, you…hey” I get to the other end and sit down facing away from him…near a guy who was sleeping in hopes that maybe he would help me out if something were to happen…so we finally get to the next stop (seemed like forever)…by this time he had walked up to me…and before the doors opened…he got 2 inches from my face, looked straight into my eyes…and says “I’m going to kill you” and walks out….
OMG!! What was that all about?? The whole way to the hospital I was freakin out…I know that it is highly unlikely that he is actually going to do something to me but the fact that he touched me was sending chills down my spine…usually “they” just pass comments but never get close enough to actual physical contact!
So now I have to re-route so that I am not at the place I am supposed to be at the time I’m supposed to be there because apparently that is being at the wrong place at the wrong time!


signed: Macky

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

you're brave to be living by yourself in NewYork. But, I would like maybe phone a friend or parent on your way to work and keep them on line- this should ward off any predators(thats what i did when i was called in the middle of the night on home call- and i used to drive to the hospital in my own car- but it's scary at 3am). Also, please keep a can of mace and use it liberally prn. :)

Anonymous said...

Are you sure the guy's name was not Blackey?

Unknown said...

Yes, please keep a case of mase with you, seriously. Blackey, hahaha...no this is not funny!