I Hate NYC #32 Subway Preachers

As already discussed in previous editions of I Hate NYC, taking the subway is just about the most effective way to get from point A to B in the city.

Unfortunately anyone with two dollars or a bit of quickness can get on the subway, there’s no math, no reading comprehension and no common sense testing required to take the subway. 

This means that there is nothing stopping people who wish to preach on the subway from entering the subway system and preaching.

Subway preachers tend to be loud, rude, abrasive and angry people who are just shouting out nonsense that they once heard in a semi sensible fashion from someone who was most likely intelligent enough to know that it isn’t even the truth.  They tend to have blinders on that drown out what everyone else is saying or doing around them.

The fact that most subway preachers have visible anger in their body language, gives the impression that they are not even trying to convert anyone to Christ, and are more so just trying to get on the “good side” of their “God” by spreading “his” word. 

There just isn’t any way to control the volume of the voice of a subway preacher, they do not care about those that are around them and are only looking out for themselves in the most hyper-abrasive way. 

The best course of action when dealing with a subway preacher is to sit back and watch someone else do something stupid to try and stop and or quiet the preaching down - that’s how I saw someone hold a  newspaper up to the face of a subway preacher to the point that they were completely blocked from viewing anyone while continuing with their vile speech, and it was awesome!