I'm stuck on a dead train coming out of Grand Central. Ask me anything!

[MANative]

Maybe I'll answer truthfully, or you could get snark. BTW, it's 90° here, and they are sending us back south. F*ck, it'll be late when I get home.

[bettyellen]

1. Do you forgive me for dropping the ball? Been a crazy few weeks. Hope all is well!

And we can have coffee soon.

[MANative]

4. Nothing to forgive! I've been totally nuts, too!

Next week, maybe.

[bettyellen]

8. Summer in the city, it's something isn't it? Hate the underground this time of year.

[MANative]

12. Went out for five minutes at lunch and turned right back around!

Damn train is so hot right now, we can barely breathe.

[bettyellen]

28. Oh man, I just can't. The humidity makes me gag, and closed spaces are not for me.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Which way did you want to go?

[MANative]

5. North, but not to Alaska.

[bettyellen]

10. Elvis reference for the win!

[In_The_Wind]

39. It's HOT up north.

Well, the Hudson Valley is having a heat wave.

[MANative]

40. Yup, and another 90+ day tomorrow, I hear.

[justhanginon]

3. I guess this would not be a good time to ask you but I will give it a shot.

What is the meaning of life?

[MANative]

6. Um, I got nothing right now. After I get dinner, I might have a better opinion.

[malaise]

16. Eat or there is no life

[MANative]

18. Throw a glass of wine into that menu and now you're talkin'!!

[malaise]

20. Hehehehehhe

OK then

[Squinch]

11. 42.

[JHB]

17. Wrong! That's the answer to...

...the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, but not to "what is the meaning of life" itself.

Gotta know these things, if you're going to be a frood who really knows where his towel is.

[Squinch]

56. .

[Stallion]

7. Songs about Trains-Dooby Brothers-Long Train Running

[MANative]

9. Aww, man, I'm in the quiet car and I left my ear buds at work. :(

[Kleveland]

14. I would link "Hellbound Train".... n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

58. THE FIREMAN SCREAMS AND THE ENGINE JUST GLEAMS

[JHB]

13. As an LIRR commuter, you have my sympathies...

This won't calm you, but it does express the feeling of such times...

[MANative]

15. And you, mine. Penn had been a disaster for you guys. Diesel train crapped out.

We're about 40 minutes into the delay, and will have to get off and switch equipment when they finally hitch us up to the rescue engine.

[trof]

25. At least you ain't stuck in Folsom Prison.

I hear the train a comin'
It's rollin' 'round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine
Since, I don't know when

Well, I'm stuck in Folsom Prison
And time keeps draggin' on
But that train keeps a-rollin'
On down to San Antone

[Vinca]

60. LOL - I loved Sam.

That's exactly how I've been feeling about everything political.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

19. What is Lucy Ricardo's middle name?

[MANative]

22. Well, I think she used her maiden name, which was Magillicuddy.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

26. She had a middle name.

[MANative]

29. Then you have truly stumped me, friend!!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

34. Esmeralda

And good for you for not googling it.

[MANative]

38. The heat has clearly affected my brain, as I didn't even think of doing that! Lol

Seriously, it's gasp-level hot in here.

[trof]

63. I'm stuh-uhk on a dead train...

don't know when I'll be back again..
Just the first thing that came to mind.

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[mercuryblues]

47. My Mom

told me that when women got married in the days of your that women dropped their middle name and used their maiden name in it's place.

Is that true or did she make that up because she hated her middle name?

[Heartstrings]

54. My mom

Told me the same thing....and that's what we did!

[MANative]

55. I kept my middle name, as did my mother, and hers is Antoinette.

[Wiseman32218]

66. My Moms did that, she dropped Ethel for Adams in a heartbeat she often kidded.

[mercuryblues]

67. My mom said the same thing

Her middle name was Avril. Funny thing is I liked it. This was before Avril Lavigne became famous. I was going to name my 2nd daughter Avril but one thing stopped me. I never had a 2nd daughter.

[csziggy]

68. My Mom never told me that! But she didn't have a middle name

In fact the earliest version of her birth certificate I have seen says "unnamed female child" with her father's surname. She was called by a boy's nickname and that has been her name since. So when she got married, she finally had a middle name for the first time!

[mercuryblues]

69. My Mom's

mother's birth certificate said baby girl with her dad's surname. Her mothers name was left blank, because she was an American Indian.

[karynnj]

70. My mom, who was of that generation did that .. and I did too in 1984 when I married

I used the full name on anything I wrote for work - so people who knew me for the 13 years I worked before I got married would recognize the name.

[CozyMystery]

71. I didn't have a middle name ...

My parents were efficient. Their daughters didn't have a middle name because when we married, our maiden name would become our middle names. That's what I did, but only because my husband refused to change his last name to my maiden name.

[jpak]

21. Zombies? Massive Aliens? Russian hackers?

[MANative]

24. All of the above? Sure feels that way!

[jpak]

30. It sucks to be you man

[madinmaryland]

23. I got stuck a couple of times coming out of grand central when a line went down.

I had to have my wife pick me up once in Greenwich, CT when a train ahead of us ripped down the overhead power wires. No AC is what sucks the most.

[MANative]

27. Those catenary lines are ancient. Had plenty of experience with those issues, too.

[iamateacher]

31. Was Abraham Lincoln

Really a vampire slayer?

[MANative]

33. All the signs point to...

Hey, the rescue engine just arrived!

[Sanity Claws]

32. What line are you on?

Did you even get as far as 125th?

I commute on the Hudson line but today I'm telecommuting. Sounds like I lucked out.

[MANative]

36. Just past 125th. Looks like they're going to take us to mt Vernon west to switch equipment.

I'm on the Harlem line.

[Sanity Claws]

45. That sounds better than going back to Grand Central

Unless you wanted to pick up a beer or wine to go at Grand Central.

[MANative]

51. That would have been an option, but alas, no dice!

[AngryAmish]

35. Do you have any pornography?

[MANative]

37. Um, depends on how you define that.

I have done really good reading material on my tablet. Tasteful, of course.

[AngryAmish]

49. As long as you have a supple wrist and a good imagination you will never have a lonely night

[MANative]

50. Lol

[ghostsinthemachine]

41. One question

How much does the earth weigh?

[MANative]

44. More than the moon and less than the sun!

[ghostsinthemachine]

65. Well, the sun is gaseous, and the moon

Is made of cheese, so I wouldn't be so sure about that.

[samnsara]

42. whats for dinner tonight?

[MANative]

43. Wish I knew!

[Warren DeMontague]

46. My sailors are stuck in this ikea stool, and I'm in Norway

got any lutefisk?

[MANative]

52. Fresh out, not unlike my supply of dilithium crystals!

[Warren DeMontague]

57. Only one of my lithium crystals is actually stuck in the stool, though, scotty

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[MANative]

62. I am so grateful not to have those, um, appendages. They seem rather... Inconvenient.

[Warren DeMontague]

64. It's why I never shop at IKEA

I tell you what.

[CK_John]

48. After this 3yr rebuild of NYC transportation will this help us 2018/2020???

[MANative]

53. Doubt it, cuz it probably won't actually be done until 2026.

[pbmus]

59. When will the USA come to its senses and dump the chump trump?//

You said I could ask anything...

[MANative]

61. Not soon enough, clearly! That would have been in November, 2016, at the latest.

Personally, I've loathed him since the 1980s, but to be a bit maudlin, I worry that we're completely stuck with the f*cker.