Saturday, January 30, 2010

Concerns of a Metro North Passenger


Is it weird that I worry about my train conductors getting carpel tunnel syndrome? I’ve yet to have the courage to ask one of them whether or not their job training involved a discussion of the potential for a repetitive stress injury from punching all those tickets. But I find myself wondering about it each time they walk by clicking their ticket puncher saying "Tickets. Tickets."

4 comments:

Shankar said...

And spending almost all their working hours in tunnels can only increase the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome. Right? Right?

Liann said...

Always the one for puns Shankar! I love it!

Laura said...

My dear, sweet, Liann. I totally forgot you had a blog until recently. I will now stalk you. Hope thats OK! I think of you often.

Laura

Liann said...

I want to amend this post. After sleeping through my stop I had to get on the next train going towards NY! After explaining to the train conductor why I didn't have the right ticket I ended up asking him about his job and then got to the question I had been dying to ask. He said he's thought about it (some of the other conductors have carpel tunnel syndrome), but he has bigger things to worry about--like the punk teenagers in the next car over.