Hee, hee: New NYC subway signs say “FML”


Someone at New York City’s MTA has a sense of internet humor.

Most Facebook and general internet users are familiar with the acronym “FML,” especially after the blog devoted to FML stories went viral last year. (For the uninitiated, the letters stand for “f*ck my life,” an expression generally appended to tales of woe like “I just worked a twelve hour shift and dreamed about getting to bed the entire time. Then I found out my cat peed on all my pillows and my douchebag brother won’t get off the couch, FML,” or “I just found naked pictures of my girlfriend on my dad’s phone. FML.”)

Anyway, a recent service change on the New York City transit system has the letters plastered across at least one station’s sign. New Yorkers will find the juxtaposition apt because any New Yorker will tell you that every minute spent on public transportation in this city is a non-stop, endless nightmare FML moment. This is the MTA’s reasoning behind the signage, though, via CNET:

… here’s a basic explanation of the change that put the “MTA FML” into effect: two train services, the M and the V, are being merged as a result of budget woes. The merged service will run from the southern end of the borough of Queens through northern Brooklyn to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, up through midtown along the 6th Avenue Line and then back into northern Queens. (Here’s a map.) For most of its run in Manhattan, it will be running alongside the F, another 6th Avenue line service.
The route change begins June 28. In preparation, the signs were modified several weeks in advance. As local news stories explained, the MTA chose to name the merged service the M rather than the V because the M is an older service; the V was less than a decade old.

If I had to take a subway to Queens or I lived in Queens in general, FML would be my choice of letter-arrangement, too.

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