Do skinny girls make the subway late?

by Jonathon Morgan (Subscribe to Jonathon Morgan's posts)
Jan 4th 2007 10:01AM

Categories: Diet & Weight Loss, Nutrition & Supplements

One of the most annoying things about relying on public transportation is that it never seems to arrive on time when you need it to. According to an analysis of statistics from NYC's Metro Transit Authority, skinny girls could be one of the major reasons your train gets delayed.

Huh?

It's not as out there as it sounds. "Sick customer" is listed as the Number 3 cause of disruptions between October 2005 and October 2006. According to MTA personnel, these ill passengers are often women who faint during the morning rush hour after going on crash diets.

As reported by New York's Early AM newspaper, "You have women trying to get their bodies tight for the summer and they won't eat," said Asim Nelson, a Transit emergency medical technician based in Grand Central Station. "Not eating for three or four days, you are going to go down. If you don't eat for 12 hours you are going to get weak."

So have some breakfast, and quit holding up everyone else's commute!

(Thanks to Gawker for the link)

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Ashley 1-09-2007 @ 2:40PM

So its not actually skinny girls its girls trying to be skinny. Everyone needs to stop bashing "skinny girls". Its rediculous; there are naturally very small people out there and making fun of them is just as bad as making fun of fat people. Everyone should be satisfied with whatever weight is healthy for them and stop worrying about what everyone else weighs.

Ellen 1-09-2007 @ 3:42PM

No wonder people get skinny if they consistently refuse to eat for days at a time.

It's a well-known fact that people always lose weight after they are dead.

Karen 1-10-2007 @ 3:07PM

It's a good thing I don't take the train.

Jordyn 1-09-2007 @ 3:35PM

I totally agree. Skinny girls get just as much crap for being below normal as fat girls get for being above normal! yet skinny girls arent suppose to defend themselves in it. Im tired of hearing comments about skinny girls not understanding certain stuff. Sorry some people are just born this way.

Keonli 1-09-2007 @ 3:11PM

The title of the article is incredibly misleading. I'm naturally petite but also quite healthy. It's UNHEALTHY girls who are causing all the delays.

Kathy 1-09-2007 @ 2:52PM

I can see the point. And in regards to Aashley's comment, it is not the skinny people it is those trying to be skinny. But the problem is women need to get over they want to "skinny". Alot of men want some padding on their women. Who wants to lay in bed with a woman and see bones?

Anne 1-09-2007 @ 3:04PM

I don't think this article is really "bashing" naturally skinny girls. I think it's pointing out how ridiculous it is when most girls go over the edge when trying to lose weight. It's one thing to be fit and thin and another when you get skinny the unhealthy way.

Mandi 1-09-2007 @ 3:04PM

Women are confused. They have no idea they look fine when someone says they look fat. And those that say they look fat are usually mean, jealous or deluded. Women - you look fine be it 95 pounds or 300. Eat something. Eat sensibly, exercise and maintain less stress in life. Life is too short to spend 99% fitting into a body type you were never meant to be in the beginning - and when you die, it wont matter anyway. Love life, love yourself and ignore the media, marketing executives and men who think you should be a living, breathing, walking, doll that should be at their beck and call.. Be in control of yourself.

Cate 2-06-2007 @ 4:02AM

"Sick customer" is defined as the #3 reason trains are late. What are numbers 1 and 2 as they, by their numbered positions, would indicate the highest reasons trains are late. Come on, give us the "real skinny" here.

ashley 1-09-2007 @ 6:07PM

i found this article very offenive. I myself suffer from anorexia nervosa, and I would like to point out how rude and arrogant this article was in respect to many women who suffer from this particular disorder as well. Please take these kinds of things into account before articles like this get written.

ricardo 1-09-2007 @ 3:09PM

skinny chicks suck,poorly! i prefer a little meat on the bones,there's nothing worse then bruised pelvic bones from banging a skinny chick! you know the last time i bonked a really skinny girl i was picking splinters out of my hose for a week!! no more of that crap, i want my women built like j lo not paris or nicole. i guess these boys not as well endowed as myself can do those bonebags but not a "large man" like me. don't get me wrong i don't like fat broads either, lord no, can't stand to have to flour them and hunt the wet spot! no cottage cheese thank you. i take care of my body and i expect a woman to do the same.

Jay 1-09-2007 @ 3:09PM

Being skinny is healthy. Being fat is not. It is that simple. More people die from complications from obesity than from anorexia.

mizzday 1-09-2007 @ 3:09PM

That is ridiculous. Skinny people don't have to worry about not eating to keep they're bodies tight. It is the average and fat people who have a distorted sense of self and such low self esteem that the starve themselves. I have been skinny all my life. I start out with a number 3 from the McDonalds value menu, a number four with no mustard for lunch and sausage Jambalaya for dinner. I don't cause people to be late. People are late because they are trying to be something that they are not. Perhaps if they would walk, drink water and move around instead of sitting around in the office gossiping and worrying about the way that they look all the time. Maybe they wouldn't have to starve themselves. More power to them, let's just hope that the train is waiting for the coroners office.

Jerry Escude 1-09-2007 @ 3:09PM

Love them Hog Bodies....no wate, uh I mean like those Etheopean like, looking chicks need to like get a life, like duh.

goldfish 1-09-2007 @ 3:10PM

this blog is just trying to stir something up. I agree with the poster above, there are naturally, healthy, petite females out there that are not on "crash diets" geeze!

I am naturally skinny and I eat donuts, pizza, sloppy joes, french fries every week.

This is the same thing as judging "fat people". Let's flip this story up; let's say, "fat people causes subway delays" wouldn't you react the same way?

moronic blog from a moronic blogger

goldfish 1-09-2007 @ 3:10PM

Jessie 1-09-2007 @ 3:30PM

Though, in my opinion, most people who do that "crash dieting" are already skinny. I just really don't understand that.

TES 1-09-2007 @ 3:35PM

To categorize all skinny girls as having eating disorders and passing out during their morning commute due to their lack of nutrition is pure bull. I happen to be a size 0, happen to commute to NYC everyday via the train, and NO, I do not have an eating disorder!
Great genetics and a fast metabolism is the reason for my being thin. I am in aww at the rudeness of people towards thin people.
I have never heard people say to an overweight person on the street to stop eating because they are so fat, but yet I have had strangers on the street tell me to go eat something because I was too thin. Stop with the sterotypes and stop hating on the naturally thin people who can eat anything they want people.