Getting off the train at Penn Station the other morning, I noticed a cupcake and a drink sitting in the rung of an upside down ladder on the platform (pictured below). Didn’t think much of it – figured it was just an employee’s snack for later, as I see lunch bags and backpacks of NJ Transit employees stashed away on the train all the time.

Turns out this was not the case… I happened to get off at the same platform this morning (my birthday, no less, with all this cupcake excitement), and out of the corner of my eye, just before going up the stairs I noticed, again, that lil’ pipe-swirled Hostess nugget of happiness.

I realized the drink I saw before is merely an empty bottle and as for the cupcake – well, it’s just flat-out lonely. There’s something about a packaged Hostess cupcake just sitting in Penn Station, all day, everyday, being passed and ignored by thousands of people that seems wrong.

So after going back to get pictures of said cupcake, I’ve decided to let everyone know where it is:

Track 12 at Penn Station at the bottom of the stairs of the eastern-most staircase that leads to the main NJTransit area…

And I’ll give you 10 bucks to eat it. Just please send pictures…

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