Subway Shopping

Tape measures, hair elastics, markers, 80’s mix CDs, stickers, comic books, freshly baked pastries, and scissors are only a few of the items paraded for sale on the “subway aisle.” In my daily 20 minute commute to school, I see people hawking everything and anything. Unlike other countries I’ve been to where people carry their passed out baby franticly up and down the aisles and wail “Por favor” (it still does exist here) people have taken to selling the most novel of items. I haven’t bought anything yet, in spite of the sweet sounds from the 80’s mix. (I still am fearful of someone grabbing my wallet and taking off.) However, I always find my commute very entertaining. On the other hand, I haven’t seen too much crime other than this one day where I sat next to a guy who was putting on his mp3 player when someone reached his hand into the window and tried to yank it out of the unsuspecting subte passenger's hand! Fortunately, at that moment the subte left the platform and the thief was left empty handed.