METRO SECURITY HAS IT ALL WRONG...

I take the metro to work.  The upside to this is that my work pays for my metro fares.  The typical downside is that it takes a little longer to get there than if I drove.  However, when your monthly commute costs zero dollars...how do you complain?


Usually, I don't complain.  I actually enjoy my time on the metro.  I read a book or people watch.  Today, was just like any other day.  I got to the Rosslyn Metro Station and waited for my train.  I watched young film students get footage of the arriving trains, laughed at the group of teenagers on a field trip be in awe of the Rosslyn escalator, and my usual skimming for people leaving possible explosive baggage behind.  :) Sorry...that's just who I am. 


My train arrived.  I stepped on thinking today was just a normal day.  Then something hit me.  A haunting aroma that smelled like farm.  I wondered out loud "Ewe, gross!!! Why does it smell like farm in here?".  I took my seat...still perplexed about the situation.  We don't live near any farms.  This is strictly a city area.  A man took a seat behind mine.  "Oh, that's nice!!" he exclaims.  I look over and there it is.  An empty metro seat just across the isle from me.  It's drenched.  The carpet below the seat is saturated.  Sitting on the seat all alone, was the biggest dump I've ever seen outside of a toilet.  Just riding the metro like it's on its way to work or to site see.  It even had a newspaper!  This was the perpetrator that smelled up the entire metro car.


I started gagging!!  My eyes started to water!!  At the first stop....I just HAD to switch cars.  I stepped out of my car and got on a different one.  Metro safety is always a big concern.  Unfortunately, security is concentrating on the wrong things.  Instead of focusing on people trying to blow it up....they apparently should be focused on people using the metro as a restroom.