People who don't live here don't grasp that you can feel sympathy _and_ annoyance when someone gets hit by a subway train and fucks up your commute. This sort of thing happens often enough in this town that you inevitably get inured to the news of it happening and just go "god damn it, I'm gonna be late now." What are we expected to do? My sympathy is bound to take a back seat to how disrupted things are for way people than the person who got hit & their family