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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:26 am Post subject: Ever get kneecapped by those subway ticket things? |
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| Every now and then the subway ticket gate, notably one of the new ones, messes up and accepts your t-money card but half way through it thinks better of it and then rejects it. The timing is nearly perfect. The little flipper gates slam shut just has my kneecaps are occupying their plane of existence. BAM! They slap right into my kneecaps for a most painful effect. After two or nine times, you begin to brace yourself for a sharp pain every time you walk through the gate. I tell you. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| With my height I call those things wangersnappers. |
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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:31 am Post subject: |
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| Strange. This is one of the few bad things in Korea that hasn't happened to me ... yet. |
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ladyandthetramp
Joined: 21 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:54 am Post subject: |
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How tall are you?
I have the same problem, but at the same height as the beaver (the poster, I mean...  )
I just wish they would put a little padding on them. Sometimes it can really hurt  |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| ladyandthetramp wrote: |
How tall are you?
I have the same problem, but at the same height as the beaver (the poster, I mean... )
I just wish they would put a little padding on them. Sometimes it can really hurt |
I'm 5'7" and that seems to put my kneecaps are the perfect height. |
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Konundrum
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Boston
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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I once saw a muslim woman in Itaewon station with 2 children. She was carrying a young toddler and had another older toddler who was walking ahead of her. She was struggling with the child she was carrying and apparently walked too far before putting her ticket in the slot because
BLAMMO..her little girl (who was walking ahead of her) got a big, orange, stereophonic whack in the melon, sending the kid reeling and squealing like a flaming pig.
I thought it was kinda funny until the time I got kneecapped by those cursed contraptions....it effing hurts. Poor kid... 
Now I go...feeling much shame. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Konundrum wrote: |
I once saw a muslim woman in Itaewon station with 2 children. She was carrying a young toddler and had another older toddler who was walking ahead of her. She was struggling with the child she was carrying and apparently walked too far before putting her ticket in the slot because
BLAMMO..her little girl (who was walking ahead of her) got a big, orange, stereophonic whack in the melon, sending the kid reeling and squealing like a flaming pig.
I thought it was kinda funny until the time I got kneecapped by those cursed contraptions....it effing hurts. Poor kid...
Now I go...feeling much shame. |
Sorta related:
I once saw a mother on the express bus put her two year-old son right in the front of the exit doors. When the door opened, the kid was clamped by it and started screaming. The idiot woman then had the gall to yell at the bus driver. How retarded can someone get?
Sparkles*_* |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
| Konundrum wrote: |
I once saw a muslim woman in Itaewon station with 2 children. She was carrying a young toddler and had another older toddler who was walking ahead of her. She was struggling with the child she was carrying and apparently walked too far before putting her ticket in the slot because
BLAMMO..her little girl (who was walking ahead of her) got a big, orange, stereophonic whack in the melon, sending the kid reeling and squealing like a flaming pig.
I thought it was kinda funny until the time I got kneecapped by those cursed contraptions....it effing hurts. Poor kid...
Now I go...feeling much shame. |
Sorta related:
I once saw a mother on the express bus put her two year-old son right in the front of the exit doors. When the door opened, the kid was clamped by it and started screaming. The idiot woman then had the gall to yell at the bus driver. How retarded can someone get?
Sparkles*_* |
My beautiful girlfriend and I were getting off a bus and I dropped my water bottle's cap on the stairs. I just left it. She wondered why I did that. "Because the moment I turned and bent down to pick up the cap, the bus driver would have shut the door on my neck." Those Seoul bus drivers don't wait for anything. Sometimes those mofos gun the engine even before you're fully on the damn bus. |
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crazycanuck
Joined: 11 Oct 2003
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject: Subway knee wackings... |
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Put ticket in...wait half a second...doors open...jump...kick the crap outta the thing if/when it does snap on your knees...
Option two...wait for the thing to snap your knees and drop to the ground moaning, groaning, and screaming that you will sue...wait for SBS to cover the story...For a better effect wear a knee brace... |
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panthermodern
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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I once saw an ill behaved child run screaming from his OHMA (you was also ill tempered looking); he bolted through the gates and WAMMMO was fired back like a pinball.
It made my day. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| ladyandthetramp wrote: |
How tall are you?
I have the same problem, but at the same height as the beaver (the poster, I mean... )
I just wish they would put a little padding on them. Sometimes it can really hurt |
I'm 5'7" and that seems to put my kneecaps are the perfect height. |
We're the same height. Maybe I'm just hanging lower or something. |
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