{"id":3795,"date":"2008-09-18T08:44:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2008-09-18T08:44:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T13:44:03","slug":"this_is_how_we_roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/this_is_how_we_roll.html","title":{"rendered":"This Is How We Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

All aboard the vomit comet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

They are off into the night as another group of revelers — mostly young ladies — comes off the 10:32 from Mineola. They don’t want to give their names, but one is glad to share the recipe for the cocktail she is sipping from a plastic Starbucks cup on the sly: Smirnoff Blue (100 proof), a little 7 Up and cranberry juice.<\/p>\n

These must be the “beauties” that a Long Island Rail Road engineer speaks of a little later at Tracks Bar & Grill, where he is convening with two other co-workers at the end of a shift. They would only talk if their names weren’t used.<\/p>\n

“It’s beauty coming in and the beast coming home,” the train engineer says of the transformation partying commuters make when they come in fresh and leave haggard.<\/p>\n

The engineer and his conductor buddies know too well the iniquities of the weekend ride, a shift usually reserved for rookies.<\/p>\n

“At the 12 o’clock hour, there are a lot of fights. At the one o’clock hour, it’s the ‘vomit comet,'” one of the conductor says.<\/p>\n

“And by 2 or 3, they’re zombies; the leftovers that couldn’t make the ‘vomit comet.'”<\/p>\n

Fabio Bari and Phillip Prado, both 23, are familiar with the weekend routine. It’s barely 1 a.m. and they are making sure to hit the 1:19 a.m. to Manhasset, which if they miss leaves them only with the 3:19. Not an option. “It’s full of drunken animals,” Bari says.<\/p>\n

There are worse possibilities, however, than missing the 1:19: “God forbid you miss the 3:19. You’ll be contemplating all the wrong directions you took throughout the night and your life,” Bari says.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Location Scout: Penn Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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