The odds of interruption must increase exponentially over the time exposed,but even now no conductor appears to tap him on the shoulder, or even look down at him disdainfully or with barely concealed interest. The train merely grinds to a halt in Hicksville and the doors open and I get off and maybe they get off also, but I don't notice; a group of loud drunks drops a bottle of malt liquor wrapped in a paper bag on the concrete stairs leading to the parking lot and the sound of breaking glass is very sharp in the empty morning air.