Look at these two guys. For almost the entire trip they were looking at whatever she was doing on her phone.

Let’s not even question what she was doing all that time to not notice them.

Transport workers in Italy have gone on strike, forcing the cancellation of thousands of bus, tram and subway lines and snarling traffic across the country.

Railway workers have been on a 24-hour strike since 9 p.m. Sunday. Local transport workers went on strike at 8:30 a.m. in Rome and 15 minutes later in Milan.

The railway company says some commuter trains will continue running. Labor unions says service will be guaranteed during the morning and evening rush hours.

The unions called the strikes to put pressure on upcoming contract renewal talks.

1. Travel with your ipod or a book (something to keep you occupied). Please do not stare in my face or attempt to see what I’m doing on my ipod. Its bad manners! Also, for those of you who like to yap loudly on your cell phone—please I’m begging you—turn them off. We don’t need to listen to a one sided conversation about how your day went. As I said earlier, bring a book! Try reading and maybe you’d have something more interesting to talk about.
2. If the train or bus is crowed, please do not bring any open beverages on. It makes for a messy commute if there were to be any sudden stops. And it would really suck having to go to work with coffee stains on a Monday morning.
3. When reading a newspaper, especially if the train or bus is crowed—do not open it fully where the edge of the paper is in the person standing next to you eyeball!! For gods sake people!
4. If the train door opens to my stop and Joe and Jim are leaning against the doors blocking the passage way—don’t expect me not to push you out the way after I say “excuse me”. And don’t expect me to sorry!
5. SMILE, enjoy your day people!

Please remember if Amtrak goes on strike, Penn Station will be closed to all train service including LIRR.

Workers for Amtrak could strike as early as the 30th of January now that a board appointed by President George W. Bush has completed its report.

USA Today reported that the workers, whose cause has been bolstered by the board’s general agreement with them, are still hoping to meet with management in an effort to avert the strike. Amtrak officials say they are still studying the report.

If a strike does take place, all inter-city Amtrak services across the country will come to a halt, and many commuter rail operations in major northeastern cities, including New York City and Boston, would be badly disrupted.

It would be the first strike in Amtrak’s history.

Some 10,000 Amtrak workers have been working without a contract since 2000.