MTA (More Trouble Ahead) nicknames

[Laurence Horn]

>As it happens, it was decades after I read the story before I had
>occasion to ride the subway and, by that time, the effect of the story
>had worn off. So far, the weirdest thing that's happened to me on the
>subway is only this. I once was getting onto a subway car in Boston
>while wearing a UC Davis T-shirt just as about seven people also
>wearing UC Davis T-shirts were getting off. There were frenzied shouts
>of "Hi, Aggie!" and, a second later, we were going our separate ways. I
>expect to run across people in Berkeley or UCLA gear, and even random
>people in San Diego, Santa Barbara, etc. gear. But, in Davis gear? No.
>
>-Wilson Gray

Maybe there was a wine-tasting they were all attending?

(For some reason, I always have had this strong UC Davis/oenology
association working for me.)

Larry