Jay St MetroTech

Five guy is the best the one on 42^nd street

I swiped my metro card and proceeded to go through the barrier. As I was pushing it suddenly wouldn’t go any further. A fellow passenger tried to help by pushing with me but to no avail.
I left the turnstile and walked around in a circle on the spot, obviously looking lost, when I spotted a sign that said «call for assistance». I quickly went over and pushed the red button. After a series of strange tones I heard a (phone) ringing sound, then a female voice asking what my problem was. I explained my calamity to the pleasant sounding voice and she told me to take the elevator to the main area.
Tragedy! What elevator? ?? Which (other) main area??? Wasn’t I standing in it?!?
Just then, a gate opened up to let passengers with bulk packages out and I slipped through and in. Heaven! Well I didn’t really slip through as the gentleman coming out grandly held the gate open for me.
My euphoria was short lived. As I proceeded down the stairs I saw a policemam whom I stupidly thought was loitering. He asked «is their any reason why you came through that gate?» Unilocalers I will not lie, think of all the bad feelings you’ve ever experienced, x 100 and you’ll get exactly how I felt. Queasy, like I was at a job interview, like my water bag just broke, like I was about to go on stage, toothache, heart attack, amnesia because I honestly forgot why I did what I did. I fumbled my response, it went something like this:
Me: Lady on wall elevator
Police: excuse me?
Me: voice said go down elevator
Police: what voice?
Me: in the wall the wall lady in the wall
Police: *Looks confused*
Me: ticket not work check it *shoved it at him*
Police: no no go ahead
Me: *continues down the steps trembling*
It took a while for my stomach acids to settle. I would like to say I learnt a lesson but what lesson? I still don’t know where the elevator and main area is!
I’m just disappointed that I’m not that much of a bad a** as I originally thought I was. *hangs head*
The End.

A clean, not too warm in the summer station. You can catch the A, C, and the F here, as well as an N or R.