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Can You Hum a Few Bars?
In New York City, to allow commuters to bring large parcels and paraphanalia onto the subway, every turnstile has a gated doorway through which you can reach the subway platform. The gates only open when the subway attendant flips a switch in the token booth. To let travelers and attendants know when the lock isn't engaged, when the door is open a speaker on the lock emits a loud, long beep. Most gates around the city are programmed to emit approximately the same pitch.
This
rainy morning, a woman was struggling with her daughter's stroller,
fighting to stand before the gate in the crowd and not get swept toward
the turnstiles. She kept waving her hand to signal the attendant to
open the gate, but he was busy with the morning rush. Finally, the
little girl in the stroller, who could not have been older than two,
started singing the pitch of the open gate. She sang this note until
her breath ran out over and over and over until, finally, the attendant
flipped the switch and let her and her mother through. The rest of
us sopping wet New Yorkers were so impressed with the little girl's
passion, persistence, and perfect pitch that we all burst into applause
when the door finally swung open and the actual alarm sounded. It wasn't
Don Giovanni at the Met, but the performance made a crowd of cranky
New Yorkers smile during rush hour. That takes talent--
New York, NY
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