It’s February, and like it or not, love is in the air. While that day to celebrate with your beloved, or eat an entire heart-shaped box of chocolates by yourself, still looms ahead, paper hearts and valentines have worked their way into the world around us.
In a city of millions of people it is easy to fall a little bit in love everyday. One of the best places to momentarily fall in love is on the subway. There you are on the N train, crammed on your usual morning commute, wishing you would have taken that Carmel car to work. Then realizing that now is a great time to use your Carmel app to reserve your ride home that night.
One your app is closed and your car is reserved, you sit back, maybe fantasize about the weekend when who catches your eye, but the looker leaning against the door. Oh those eyes! That look! So casual, so mysterious, you want to know more. Your eyes meet, but dart quickly away, they shyly return to one another before gazing in the opposite direction.
As you smile to yourself, you thoughts drift to a world of possibilities with what is clearly love at first site on the subway. You imagine your first dates, your relationship, the amusing anecdote of how you met on the subway. And in this future, the two of you could split a Carmel car together and simply remember that fateful day on the N train. It all feels a little bit possible.
You think, maybe you’ll be daring, and give this person your phone number, or at least strike up a conversation. But alas, your stop has come, and you depart without ever saying a word while, what was momentarily the love of your life, goes onward, never to be seen again. And you simply go about your day and forget that it even happened.
But for that moment underground, you were in love and had found someone who is perfect for you in every way… at least in your fantasy. Subway love is strong, quick, with just a touch of insanity. While your love underground may not always be there, Carmel is always ready for you at a moment’s notice.




