Nosebleeds From Washington Heights

The train was just arriving at the platform, with the ruffians no longer slowly trailing behind, but already having broken into a run, as Jon and Noah jumped aboard. The group of three or four pursuers stood lurking at the back of the subway car as they began to inch closer to the two boys. It was then that Jon came up with his clever scheme. He whispered to Noah that at the next stop they would act casually, stall for some moments, pretending not to be ready to get off, then, at the very last second, they would make a mad dash and leap off the train. They did. But the doors remained open too long and the Gun Hill toughs got off as well. And there they  were, at a desolate and strange station in the Bronx, approached and slowly surrounded by the bullies who had just materialized into Jon's carefully-thought-out escape plan. It seemed, Wile E. Coyote-like, to fall under the heading of: "Whoops!"