lilypadrees doesn’t hide in the bowels of Grand Central Station - she lives there!!
Ever since she was a youngster umpteen decades ago, she’s loved trains…back then, it was the romantic steam engines…she’d watch them at every opportunity. When she was old enough to be on her own, she moved to Chicago, the freight capitol of the world, so she could watch them 24/7.
Her only friends were the hobos who used the trains to get from ‘Point A’ to ‘Point B’, and, after a while, she noticed that most of them were either deaf or close to it…soon, she noticed that her hearing was also going downhill fast. Determined to do something about this, she spent several years perfecting noise-deadening earmuffs…she had them patented, contracted to have them made, and passed them out free to all her hobo friends.
Long story short, her patent on the basic design made her a multibillionaire…even after all these years, she still gets royalties on every headset sold…she used a sizable chunk of that fortune to build an underground mansion below Grand Central Station, complete with a wing for her hobo friends, and she lives there to this day, enjoying the sights, if not the sounds, of her beloved trains.