Too Much Showtime

A quick search on Youtube yields countless subway related breakdancing videos

Within this week alone I have ran into four instances, twice of which happened on the same train, of "WHAT TIME IS IT? IT'S SHOWTIME!" in the subway.  For those of you that don't know, that's the opening line before a bunch of teenagers start breakdancing in the middle of a subway car for money.  Although the groups change and they don't seem to be a collaborated effort, that line is always the opening line.  Then for about the next 90 seconds everyone in that subway car is subjected to their show whether they want to or not.

I don't mind them for the most part as I stick my earphones in my ears and ignore them, and if for nothing else, they are entertaining tourists and making some honest change in the process.  However, running into them four times in the course of one week is too much.  Plus, after a long day at work I sometimes just want a relaxing commute home, not be blasted with rap/hip-hop music blaring from a portable radio not capable of such high volumes while crossing the Manhattan Bridge.

What time is it? It's quiet time!