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Native New Yorkers are born with a bullshit detector and a poker face. The rest of us learn these skills as a matter of survival. Nobody sells you the out-of-gas-need-a-bus-ticket story. You can smell it coming a block away and shut it down before it's in focus.
Still, we did a collective double take when a rat sashayed by with a slice of pizza. In fact, we even took some civic pride in it. Here are 15 moments on the subway that would make even the most jaded, seen-it-all New Yorkers look up from their phones.
1. When you find out they actually clean the subway tracks—and with a cast of thousands

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2. When your commute turns into the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney World

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3. When you don't have a pen, toothpick or pair of scissors handy

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4. When a dark part of your soul hopes he doesn't make it

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5. When we can all just get along

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6. When you comply with the letter if not the spirt of the law

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