Valley Dweller North Assaulted on Metro North

[ValleyDwellerNorth]

Where do I begin? I had a very stressful week. I was in the emergency room 2:30 AM Monday morning with sharp abdominal pains. After being released and taking 2 days off from work I was well again. The return to work was hell. Many injustices fell upon the population I service and it was very frustrating. I left early Friday and headed to the city, believe it or not, to release and be stress free.

The Gaiety was great. Ronnie Lacour told me about his great web site http://www.ronnielacour.com . His upper body seemed much bigger this time around. Ben, coming out as Backstreet Boy meets Puff Daddy, also looked great with some additional mass to his upper body. Marlone was a fusion between Frankenstein and Diana Ross (go see the show to understand) and Tino was pure perfection for me (see him below in one of his movies).

 

http://www.hisxpress.com/media/latin_connection_dvd.jpg

 

I also laughed because Marco told me my last review of the Gaiety showed up in a Yahoo search because I referenced the brand of clothing he, Ben and Marlone wear from time to time.

I then went to Stella’s. I mingled with some Gaiety dancers, past and present, and I met someone new and wonderful who will be making a trip to my valley chalet this weekend. Then I went home and all hell broke loose.

I boarded the 1:20 AM Metro North Train to take me home. Five minutes before the train left 2 VERY DRUNK males and 2 VERY DRUNK females came aboard and sat in front of me. I should have moved but I am stubborn and thought “I was there first!”. The conductor told them to quiet down or they would have to get off. The 2 males, with their heads in one of the drunken female’s crotch, were asking the crotch for a lighter. Then they started to emulate sex. One of the drunken males began to light a cigarette and several passengers, including myself, told him no.

The train started to move. They were loud and spoken to many times. One of the females took my ticket out of my ticket seat holder. I told her that was my ticket and her ticket is in front of her. She began to insult my body size, swear at me and shared some other adjectives. Usually stuff like that does not bother me but I was tired and next to no self-control was left in me. I told her she was white drunk trash and she needed to be quiet. One of the males stood up, came over to me, and started to jab me in my face 10 to 13 times with his fingers. I maintained control as I wanted to do some damage.

I told the conductor what happened. The train stopped. The police came. An off duty NYPD officer who was a passenger on the train got into the action. All hell broke loose as when I was telling my version to the authorities the male who jabbed me lit a cigarette and began smoking on a no smoking train. They were not allowed back on. They were at least a half hour from their intended stop. I was allowed back onboard. The police and the conductors apologized to me. People complemented me on my restraint.

Could I have moved? Sure. However, I was there first. Could I have kept my mouth shut after I was verbally insulted? Sure. However, she took my ticket. Should I have been jabbed in the face? HELL NO. The rest of the ride home was grand and I met many nice, new people. HOWEVER, one stop before my stop 4 troops of LOUD AND HAPPY Girl Scouts came aboard and woke everyone up. Incredible.

I may stay home tomorrow and compose a letter to Metro North. I just may stay home and do nothing. The whole experience was a downer.

I needed to vent. Thank you.

V D N

[Barry]

I just may stay home and do nothing. The whole

>experience was a downer.

>I needed to vent. Thank you.

 

VDN You should feel good. You stood up to the assholes and you prevailed. Now as to the "LOUD AND HAPPY" Girl Scouts...what, pray tell where they doing out and about at that hour? Also do the Girl Scouts allow lesbians as members?

 

Have a great w/e. :-) Barry

[Huey]

Hang in there VDN. I'm sure many of us have had this type of experience . Don't dwell on it ... enjoy the rest of your weekend .

 

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WAR IS OVER

if you want it

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

[Guest Bitchboy]

That sounds horrible, terrible, disastrous, unnerving, upsetting, and pretty much like my daily ride on the #6 IRT from 59th to Union Square.:-( :-( :-( :-(

[Cooper]

V. D. N. You're our hero! Sorry to read of all your troubles returning home to the big "Valley" on the Metro North. But you stood up for your rights and that says a lot. It's easy to say "don't let this get to you", but listening to the week you just experienced, you had to let off "steam" somewhere, afterall, how much "shit" can one nice guy take in a week... So you really called her "white trash"! Also, do you think your new Avatar image has anything to do with this? lol.

 

Remember, this board is here for you. Vent anytime! You won't find anyone here calling you names!!!

 

My experience after the Gaiety was quite different. I returned home after being with a tall, dark, and handsome dancer! Much more fun traveling on the LIRR!

 

Thanks for the overview on the Gaiety, YES, it was a super show and heated up as the night went on! Too bad you missed the 9:15 show, lots more NOISE!

 

I hope this bad experience doesn't stop you from continuing your "erotic" weekend with all that "cool stuff" you were planning on doing.

 

Hang in there, remember, the most important thing is that you're OK! Coop

[+ Lucky]

He who lives in the valley of the dolls suffers the fools of the trailer park on the way.

[Candyman]

VDN-Sorry to hear about your problems on the train. I know its not politically correct but that is why I drive into the city. A big thanks for Ronnie's web site. He is always one of my favorites at the Gaiety. He is a great dancer and always friendly in the lounge. One day I will have to spend more time with him. :-)

[ValleyDwellerNorth]

Barry,

 

Thank you for the kind words. As for the Girl Scouts being up and out that late … GOOD QUESTION! MANY riders were confused and baffled at this. The way the were hyper and scared looking it looked as if they missed a train. They were only going up 2 more stops (and this was at Garrison and they were going to New Hamburg). Their leaders, with clipboards in hand, looked determined to get home ASAP. I think I caught one troop leader’s attention when my copy of HX slipped out of my New York Times “cover”.

 

Huey,

 

SOUND ADVICE. Now I plan to have more fun. Thanks!

 

Bitchboy,

 

OH MY! LOL! Thanks for the humor (I hope it isn’t that bad daily!?!) I hope your daily commute improves. Take a lesson from me - DON’T sit near drunken men talking into female crotches.

 

Lucky,

 

“He who lives in the valley of the dolls suffers the fools of the trailer park on the way.” LOL!!!!! Brilliant. Thank you!

 

Candyman,

 

Isn’t Ronnie great!?! He told me he will be doing some bodybuilding competting soon with friend Eric. Ronnie is a pleasure to talk to. As for driving into the city … I may be doing that more now.

 

Cooper,

 

Yeah, I called her white trash. Not a proud moment for me. However, between allowing these 2 guys to dry hump her and allowing them to speak to her crotch with their heads IN HER CROTCH that is the description that popped into my mind. I had no intention of name calling until she took my ticket and called me a Pillsbury Dow Boy Nerd Fag. Nerd? Maybe. Fag? I can let that go especially when her two male companions touched tongues in their drunken state of loveliness, BUT DOW BOY!!!??? That biatch was going down.

I am quite glad the rest of your night was very grand! Thanks Cooper!

 

V D N

[Rick Munroe]

>Yeah, I called her white trash. Not a proud moment for me.

 

I've always hated that expression because qualifying "trash" with "white" implies that trash is always non-white. I much prefer the simpler & still effective "trash", which I often mutter to myself as I walk through my neighborhood (Chelsea). That's another thing: I hate the term "Chelsea boy" & the concept behind it, not only because I have lived here forever while never fitting that stereotype (except for the fact that now I'm an escort...so sue me), but because Chelsea is very quickly being overtaken by straight 20-something trash. Chelsea was really gay for a brief moment in the mid-90's. Now, most of the clubs (and where do they keep popping up from, anyway?) are straight, the leather bars are gone, on every block we now have nail salons, and Ricky's beauty supply & Dallas BBQ have come to 23rd. It's like 8th St has moved to Chelsea. If my rambling/ranting is incoherent, it's because (a) I just woke up, and (b) I saw the comedy goddess Janeane Garofalo last night & I'm in her kind of ranting mood.

 

I enjoyed your stream-of-consciousness rant about your train wreck/ride, VDN. Hope you're feeling better physically (re: abdominal pains). You've put me in the mood for some Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies. Yum. But the image of "a fusion between Frankenstein and Diana Ross" is curbing my appetite.

[Guest Luso]

VDN,

 

I'm sorry about what happened. I'm also glad that you're okay and that you stood up for your rights. We cannot and should not let this happen to any of us. Well done!

I hope the rest of your "long" weekend is relaxing, enternaining, and safe.

 

Luso

 

[Will]

>I've always hated that expression because qualifying "trash"

>with "white" implies that trash is always non-white.

 

As a native of the Deep South, I take this opportunity to clear up an ancient misunderstanding still rife among the Yankees in the Frozen Nawth.

 

"White trash" was originally "poor white trash." It was invented before the Civil War by southern Black people to describe working-class Apalachians who hated both African Americans and the white upper classes, and who did everything they could to pester both groups. Thus, "poor white" as opposed to "poor white trash." (Read your GWTW, folks.) I first heard of "white trash" from African Americans when I was a child, and it was they who explained to me what it meant. In other words, "white trash" is, indeed, a racial epithet, but it's directed against the white people by African Americans. At least, that's the way it started, and that's what it meant -- and still means, as I understand it -- in the South. (Unfortunately, I've been exiled on the shores of Lake Erie for so long now that I'm no longer as certain as I used to be about usage down home.)

 

Like "tacky," "white trash" lost its original punch when white people in the North took it up. In fact, never in my life have I heard "trash" used to describe African Americans, not even by Southern racists. Nor have I heard "tacky" used in its Southern meaning except by native Southerners.

 

Those aren't the only Southern words of contempt that I can think of, but they are the only ones that seem to have migrated North. For instance, when I grew up, it was worse to be "common and ordinary" than to be "tacky," and to be "stritty" was the worst of all.

[catnip]

VDN, I'm glad you stood your ground and didn't just meekly change seats. Upsetting as the evening was, you just may look back at it as a thrilling exchange, in which you were the victor. I absolutely loved reading every word of your account.

[jaynnj]

Honey you are more Man then Me. Personally I would of Bitch slaped

Her.

[ValleyDwellerNorth]

Hello Catnip!,

 

Thank you for those kind words. Though some of the visuals still upset me I now look upon this as an experience I will never forget and, most of all, a learning experience. I am not one that usually stands up to people, groups, organizations, etc. I usually just write complaint letters and be passive aggressive.

 

This was a good step for me and maybe I needed a good poking!

 

Thanks again and Meow! :*

 

VDN

 

>VDN, I'm glad you stood your ground and didn't just meekly

>change seats. Upsetting as the evening was, you just may

>look back at it as a thrilling exchange, in which you were

>the victor. I absolutely loved reading every word of your

>account.

[ValleyDwellerNorth]

Hello jaynnj,

 

Trust me ... there was rage building up inside of me. I don't believe in hitting women (unless I am at a family reunion). However, she renounced her title of woman when she allowed her two male friends to talk to her crotch and dry hump her. I think she gives new meaning to E-Z Pass.

 

V D N

 

>Honey you are more Man then Me. Personally I would of Bitch

>slaped

>Her.

[ValleyDwellerNorth]

Hello Rick,

 

>I enjoyed your stream-of-consciousness rant about your train

>wreck/ride, VDN. Hope you're feeling better physically (re:

>abdominal pains). You've put me in the mood for some Girl

>Scout Thin Mint cookies. Yum. But the image of "a fusion

>between Frankenstein and Diana Ross" is curbing my appetite.

 

Did you go and see? It was a show for sure! Thanks for the kind thoughts.

 

VDN

[ValleyDwellerNorth]

Hello Luso,

 

I do not believe you are as innocent as your Avatar would lead people to believe! ;-)

 

Thanks for the support. I was about to take out the issues of HX and Next you so kindly gave me earlier in the evening and just tell them to read it and leave me alone since the effect of the booze made the two guys very touchy feely with one another. They were very sloppy drunks and I am sure I could have had them stripped, bound and gagged at the next train stop and they would have had my express train up thier .....

 

Well, I think this whole experience has made me more aggressive. PEACE my friend and hope to see you soon.

 

VDN

 

>VDN,

>

>I'm sorry about what happened. I'm also glad that you're

>okay and that you stood up for your rights. We cannot and

>should not let this happen to any of us. Well done!

>I hope the rest of your "long" weekend is relaxing,

>enternaining, and safe.

>

>Luso

>

>

[Rick Munroe]

>As a native of the Deep South, I take this opportunity to

>clear up an ancient misunderstanding still rife among the

>Yankees in the Frozen Nawth.

 

I stand corrected. As always, Will, I bow to your wisdom (forgive me if I drop my pants when I bow, though: force of habit). :*

[Rick Munroe]

>Well, I think this whole experience has made me more

>aggressive.

 

That's turning me on. }>

[ValleyDwellerNorth]

Well Rick,

 

This leads me to a question I have been meaning to ask ... when will we be meeting?

 

V D N

 

>>Well, I think this whole experience has made me more

>>aggressive.

>

>That's turning me on. }>

[Guest fukamarine]

>Thanks for the support. I was about to take out the issues

>of HX and Next you so kindly gave me earlier in the evening

>and just tell them to read it and leave me alone since the

>effect of the booze made the two guys very touchy feely with

>one another. They were very sloppy drunks and I am sure I

>could have had them stripped, bound and gagged at the next

>train stop and they would have had my express train up thier

 

Oh stop! Now you're getting me all horny too. The vision of you stripping them on a train did it for me. If they had been sober, would you classify them as (a) cute, (b) hunky, © sexy (d) all of the above. Please pick (d), please.............

 

fukamarine

[Guest 7Zach]

what is stritty?

in mississippi, peckerwood was oft used - read Puddinhead by Twain, too funny.

poor white trash, white trash - both meant the same thing - not just racial, but in my experience as a child, it meant whites that were racist, used the n word, rough, unkind, etc.

blacks used the expression a lot - considered white trash the lowest point on the human scale. funny, the overwhelming majority of people that were racist were just those people who had never been around blacks, and resented them.

[ValleyDwellerNorth]

Well fukamarine,

 

I have to be honest. No way were they ugly. And they were of very average frame and build.

 

I have to go with (a).

 

However, the cops at the station - all FOUR of them - (d) for each without a doubt.

 

 

>Oh stop! Now you're getting me all horny too. The vision of

>you stripping them on a train did it for me. If they had been

>sober, would you classify them as (a) cute, (b) hunky, ©

>sexy (d) all of the above. Please pick (d),

>please.............

>

>fukamarine

>