We tell ourselves:
"Selves, we take the subway because we are mindful of our finances and constantly thinking about our futures. Anyway, taxi's are for snobs and we love the gritty urban world that is the NYC MTA. Boy do I love the subway!"
But sometimes we walk down into the happy abyss that is the subway station and are rudely greeted with this:

I mean... as much as I appreciate the honest heads up about the next sad hour of my sad existence, I'd rather be lied to and beaten in the neck by Kimbo Slice than told to wait 47 minutes for the L train.
Some blame Bloomberg. I blame Kanye.