Your tone of voice betrays a lack of enthusiasm for the story you're about to tell me. I do not find this funny. I find this deeply uncomfortable. Valerie Kipnis is one of our younger and newer producers here.
She's been working on the show for less than a year. And it was other staff members who urged her to come into the studio with me and tell me the story.
Because they think it's funny, even if Valerie doesn't. OK, so I get on the subway and I see this person I know on the same subway train. Well, that's a coincidence.
It doesn't happen very often. I've never seen this person on this stop before, no. And I'm like, I should say something to this person. And I'm like thinking in my head-- I'm like, all right, I should say something. I should say something. And then he looks at me. And he makes like direct eye contact. And I'm like, right, this is my chance. I'm going to say something right now. And I open my mouth. And I'm like-- and then he starts looking at his phone. And I'm like, OK, that actually wasn't direct eye contact.
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That was like staring-through-you eye contact. Six feet? It's so close, right, but so far. She's by the subway doors. He's at the pole in the middle of the aisle. So then, anyways, in my head, I'm like, OK, he'll probably get off on the next stop. It's not a big deal. He hasn't seen me. I'll just pretend I don't see him. But then, a few stops later, he has not gotten off.
