I was riding the magical underground rails today when in less than an hour, I had to put up with more maddeningly uninspired short films, a homeless fellow who insisted on beggining each passenger face to face for just a little change, a tanked and amorous Tunisian who accosted every woman in the train for 3 minutes and the bus and metro drivers union announcing that they were going on strike and freezing all subway and bus traffic for the next 40 hours. Then my boss got pissed at me when I asked if she would pay for my taxi the next morning. And Europeans have the audacity to wonder why we Americans love our cars so much.