We've all been there before: a mad dash to the train is met with nothing more than the cold, devastating thud of the car's closing doors.
Most of us accept our defeat and take our sad, little place against the platform walls, pondering just how much better the day would have been if we had arrived just two seconds earlier.
Subway Idiot, however, does not. Subway Idiot charges.
In comedian Arthur Meyer's latest video, "Subway Idiot," viewers can delight as said idiot chases after all the trains that have wrongly left him across the city.
Sprinting after a train is ultimately an exercise in futility (hence one half of the protagonist's name being "idiot"), but it's something that most New Yorkers can relate to — even if we wouldn't admit to doing it ourselves.
Watch Subway Idiot's Sisyphean acts of defiance below: