Actors

are a crazy lot.  When waiting around, as we were this past week to go on in our spot in the one act competition, the discussion began on what were the titles of the two people on the subway train who are either driving or are in the middle, pointing at the sign as noted earlier and announcing the stops.  No one knew for sure.  So two different nights on my way home, at 1:15 am and 11:30 I had the opportunity to ask the person in the middle.  That job position is called ‘Conductor’.  When on another night, I asked the conductor what the motorman was called: he said “‘train operator’ and the test, if I was looking to take it, was coming up in January.”  I thanked him for the information, and texted to the actors who had been discussing this, the answer.  One of them quickly, dryly texted in return: ” that could be a good next career – good benefits but probably hard to leave for auditions”.