Continued decline of the public university

[cobrat]

You obviously don’t live in NYC. In my younger days I rode the subway a bit. Nothing like the bracing smell of stale urine in the morning to wake you up. I could write paragraphs for you on what I learned about the differences in size, texture, color, and fiber content between human feces and dog feces.

I don’t know how recently those “younger days were”, but what you described is mainly applicable 20+ years ago.

I haven’t encountered what you described regularly since my middle school/first year of HS during the late '80s/extreme early '90s*. Your subway experience above sounds like it was from the late '60s to early '90s when

And I still ride the subway regularly to when I need to go somewhere in NYC to this day.

• Subways were already starting to be cleaned up by the early '90s. By the time I graduated HS in the mid-'90s, the subways almost resembled what they are today.