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New Yorkers famously unbothered as couple plays ping-pong on the subway

Ocasio-Cortez really hopes this isn’t her district.

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This latest video proves there is no city like New York City.

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The video shows a couple, who apparently had an entire ping-pong table with them, playing a match smack in the middle of the subway.

“On the 6 train tonight, a couple takes out and starts a ping pong game,” writer Mary Karr posted on Twitter. “I (love) NYC.”

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The New Yorkers around were famously unbothered. But that didn’t stop people on Twitter from rolling their eyes.

“Ugh. They should stop trying so hard,” one person wrote.

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Even Bronx native Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) had something to say.

“Where on the 6 was this? Please tell me this was Manhattan, I’m not trying to get phone calls about this,” she tweeted.

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No word on who the couple is, who the winner of the match was, or if Ocasio-Cortez’s office phone has been ringing.

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H/T Mashable

 
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