I always manage to get on the same subway cars as absolute lunatics, omfg.
I went to see Capote tonight with some friends, and afterwards we all piled on to the subway to go home. Nothing was amiss through the few stops we rode together, and then right after everyone else got off to transfer to another line, this couple a few seats down decide to start having a loud disagreement.
She’s mad at him because they’re still on the subway; apparently she wanted to get off at Queen, and at this point we’re at St Clair. He’s not saying a whole lot, which naturally begins to infuriate her and she gets louder and louder. She gets up a couple of times to check out the subway map, and she looks like she’s been roughed up something awful recently, bruises and other ugly marks all over her face (from what I could gather from my sideways glances). Then they start arguing about money. She’s mad because he’s made her ride the subway all this way, and so she wants cab fare because she’s getting off at the next stop* to go home. [Why they couldn't just get off at any of the previous stops and hop on a southbound train, I have no idea.] He’s refusing to give her money, so she starts absolutely raging, screaming at him, pushing him around. Everyone else on the car is trying to ignore them but of course is paying rapt attention at the same time; he starts saying he’s going to call security, and I’m sure the idea was crossing everyone else’s minds as well.
*which became the next stop and then the next and the next as she refused to get off
Finally, she gets to the real heart of the issue when she starts yelling “You fuck me but don’t pay me? What the fuck is that? That’s not right, man! You can’t just use me for sex and not pay me.” I couldn’t hear what the guy said (probably something along the lines of “Can you shut the hell up?”) and she starts yelling “I’m a hooker, and I think [everyone on the subway] knows that, so pay me my fucking money!” On and on ad infinitum. They were really genuinely scary, and if most of the people had gotten off at Sheppard or North York Centre, I would have gotten off too just to avoid being alone with these people.
But yeah, Capote was really quite good and Philip Seymour Hoffman was pretty outstanding, so you should all go see it.