Memo to those who stop to talk on subway stairs during rush hour

Keep walking.
If you're the Spanish looking guy in the Madonna t-shirt from last night, alejarse my friend.
Stopping suddenly when others are behind you is just plain dangerous.
You wouldn't kill the engine in heavy traffic to admire a majestic butterfly would you? No you would not. Because you'd have a ten car pile-up on your hands, not to mention the blood of the family from Vermont whose car is crumpled and oozing behind you.
Even nature knows better.
What do you think would happen if a gentleman salmon, mid-migration, stopped swimming because he wanted to chat up pretty Miss. Salmon?
Ha! Trick question.
That would never happen, because even salmon have more sense than you.
If you would like to stop and chat on the phone or in person with consenting friends, by all means, feel free! Stop and talk your black little hearts out. Just make sure you remember to switch crowded stairways for the front of a moving truck.

Kisses,

Me