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  1. ENY,

    I hear you on that,
    but in the case of young doctors just getting out
    the 21% pay cut comes with non dischargable, massive
    student loan debt
    and
    no decrease in liability issues.

    a losing proposition for many.

  2. Donatella, my favorite way to get those guys to close their legs….I force myself in there and press my leg on theirs making it clear that they are taking up too much space. If they give me a stinky look or say something, I turn to them and say with a completely straight face, “We both know your d*ck isn’t that big. You don’t need to open your legs that far.” The shock and horror (plus the giggles from the people around us who hear me say this) usually gets the guy to close his legs and stop squishing me 🙂 Vulgar? Yep. Problem solved? Yep!

  3. cmu, for what it’s worth, I agree with you. It always bothered me that whenever there was a plane crash, a tsunami, war, or terrorism, the news always has to point out how many Americans died, as if we are more valuable to the universe than anyone else. I suppose those statistics are supposed to personalize it for the imaginationally or empathetically challenged, but it always comes off as xenophobic, or superior.

    Snappy, I agree about backpacks. It usually seems like those most spacially clueless have the largest backpacks. Some of them take up as much space as another person. It should be mandatory to take them off in the train.

  4. By daveinbedstuy on May 4, 2010 10:54 AM

    I will rarely sit on a subway anyway. There’s not enough air circulation down there.

    Dave, you are a real gentleman, that is why you stand. I hate it when I sit next to the gangsta, thuggish, males who have to open their legs, aerating their balls and leave everyone else to skrunch their bodies, cross their legs, etc. to accomodate them

    Snappy, you are right! There are backpacks like steamer trunks — what the F is in those things????!!!???

  5. your letter, *Rob*, is about Continuum Health Care group (Beth Israel hospital) and I think Aetna insurance ….
    They haven’t worked out some dispute and for now are not accepting your insurance.

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