Comments on: Busted: Tales of pop-cultural mortification on public transportation

By: Luisa

Luisa — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:15:18 +0000

Totally normal. I start fidgeting a lot and making snarky comments during sex scenes, or even just kissing, if I’m watching a movie with my parents. Yeesh.
And, hello, I still LOVE my walkman! Though it’s slightly inconvenient to run with, I still insist on it. I love my CDs and don’t plan on chucking it anytime soon. Though I did sorta cave with iTunes…
Don’t be ashamed of your walkman! It’s totally retro hipster. I think.

By: monica

monica — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:04:11 +0000

i was once bopping along to an N’Sync song in an empty train car one summer morning and i was absent mindedly singing the words out loud while reading a magazine (probably EW) and then i suddenly realized there were other people at the far end of the car. Forget the fact that it’s 2008, N’sync isn’t exactly openly accepted in the Bronx. lol

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:31:19 +0000

I was on a bus on the way home from class my senior yr of college with my boyfriend of the moment…unbeknownst to me, my roomate had programmed the song “secret lover” to play everytime ANYONE called and my first call happened to be when he was there with me…it was her btw….

By: Shelly

Shelly — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:11:17 +0000

Oops. “Mortification.”

By: Shelly

Shelly — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:10:54 +0000

I just have a “morification on the bus” story. When I was in junior high, I got a bloody nose on the bus. I didn’t have any tissues, but I had a full-size maxi pad. Picture a 13-year-old girl with a giant Stayfree covering up half my face. Not my best look.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:50:52 +0000

When I was about 14, my parents walked in during the “Young Lust” scene in The Wall. THAT was awkward.

By: Kerri

Kerri — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:15:06 +0000

Ahhhhh! Gretchen, I just had almost that same experience last Friday. The guy came to our house to install our water softener and I was reading “Good in Bed” to pass the time and still seem available if he had any questions to ask me. I tried really hard to hide the cover, but he saw it anyways and asked if it was any good (with a smirk). I know he assumed it was some dirty book.

By: Arsenio Billingham

Arsenio Billingham — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:06:18 +0000

Mandi, I’ve had my fair share of pop culture embarrassments, but there is no shame–NO SHAME–in listening to Journey. You’re just a small town girl, living in a lonely world.

By: Karrah

Karrah — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:46:29 +0000

I requested a couple of days off work to go to a concert out of town. My supervisor asked what concert just out of curiosity, and I reluctantly told him it was the American Idol tour.

By: Annette

Annette — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:44:04 +0000

A few years back I downloaded a “trapped in the closet” ringtone as a joke with some friends and forgot that I had assigned it to unknown callers. A year or so later on the train my purse started belting out that tale of love and betrayal at 7:30am when a private number gave me a ring.