I got MEOWED AT on the subway last week.

While waiting for the uptown 1 train at 42nd street last week, I inadvertently got in the way of an angry Hispanic man in a wife beater. I was standing on the yellow line minding my own business, and I guess he decided I wasn’t appropriately positioned on the platform, because he responded by making an animal noise. That’s never happened to me before, but I can only assume it was a negative reaction. This sound was actually less of a meow and more towards the hiss end of the cat noise spectrum. It can only be expressed in writing as MEOW!, but if you would like to hear what it actually sounded like, I would be happy to reproduce it for you in person. This was clearly an instinctual response for this guy. In his mind, he thought, “bitch, get out of my way,” but what came out of his mouth was “MEOW!” I couldn’t even react except to immediately get out of the way, because when someone meows at you in the subway in new york, you get the fuck out of the way. As did the guy standing on the other side of me, with whom I exchanged a look of “what the fuck was that?” immediately following the incident. I don't even know what else to say about this.