marzipanandminutiae:

beggars-opera:

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bumpyfrog:

beggars-opera:

oysters-aint-for-me:

betterthanakickintheface:

beggars-opera:

costumersupportdept:

beggars-opera:

beggars-opera:

The fact that the Boston transit system has been a garbage fire for so long that our mascot is a sad little man who is literally stranded on the train until the end of time due to a fare increase. Charlie’s desiccated corpse has been riding this train since the 1940s and everyone just sort of rolls with it it this point

Back in the 40s the T installed a fare to get off the train as well as to get on, because the system has always been that broken. So a song was written about the mythical man of Charlie on the M.T.A., who doesn’t have the extra fare and becomes stuck there. Forever. Riding around in a never-ending circular nightmare because the city is corrupt and everyone else in Boston is a cheapskate who won’t lend him a goddamn nickel. Adding insult to injury his wife throws him food every day but not money, probably because she’s better off single.

The T responded by saying “to hell with it, he’s our mascot now.”

The solution to crumbling public infrastructure should always be a jaunty banjo solo

Oh wow… ttc’s pretty bad but not exactly a Kafkaesque purgatory like that o.O

Also, that song is really good!

to be fair you no longer need exit fare for the T, so the charlie card would effectively free charlie. but this does not make boston public transit any less fucked up. yes, this is partly because charlie is haunting the system, we all know that, but charlie’s only haunting the system because the system haunted him. true bostonians know the real enemy

He is most definitely haunting the system.

You know that old antique trolley car sitting in Boylston Station?

I’m convinced Charlie is still in there.

Waiting.

Is Charlie the one almost dropping ceiling tiles on riders or is that a different, more evil entity?

There is an older horror in the tunnels that never sleeps

I’m glad we’re all in agreement here

everyone knows Boylston is haunted by a redcoat whose grave was disturbed during the first excavations for the T! and also Charlie! get it right!