Ms. Subways Says:

Inspired by these defacements of the perky courtesy campaign from Caroline Sanchez-Bernat, aka "Ms. Subways."

 

Comments

[Karsten]

This is a little weird. Do they really think people will read the sign and say : “You know, I should be more courteous.” I hate to say but people at the subway riding age are pretty much already set in their ways. Either they will be polite or they won’t be. For example, I was driving down 280 yesterday when I see this electronic sign that says – Please use indicator when changing lanes. Drive with caution.

This guy in a big truck (so he was probably a jackass anyway) changes lanes right in front of me and that sign and doesn’t use his indicator. So, the idea is that all these signs do is clutter up the space they are taking and they are a complete waste of time since nobody looks at them or heeds their message. I don’t need to be told to be courteous, I am simply that way by nature. Just as an asshole wouldn’t listen to a sign telling him to be courteous a courteous person wouldn’t listen to a sign telling them to be an asshole.

The only good these signs will do is provide wacking material since she’s pretty hot.

And why Ms. Subways? Why not Ms. Subway. Subways sounds weird. Kind of like the new McDonalds commercial for the McGriddles. It’s a McGriddle, dammit, not a McGriddles. You are eating one sandwich, not two.

I guess in the end it shows how we’ve become as a society where you have to remind people to be nice to other people, which seems like common sense to me.

[JMH]

.....In Chicago, you get nice, friendly taped banter: "No soliciting on the train. Violators WILL be arrested!" "The next stop is Noyes. DOORS open on the left at Noyes." My kids insisted that "Noise" had to have been named after me!

JH

PS: That was damned observant, Karsten, and so true!

[chris m]

Sure, the redneck in the truck didn't respond to the inhuman machine instructing him to signal. But what if, instead, there had been a billboard of a gently attractive ethnic woman urging him to be more courteous? If that had been the case, your morning commute would be transformed into the paradise of mannered and considerate etiquette we now enjoy in the New York City subway system.

Incidentally, I assume she's called "Ms. SubwayS" to discriminate her from someone pitching for Subway sandwiches.