the young white guy was screaming for an ambulance on one side of the station and the old black chick was screaming for someone to give her a help , to give her a tie-off for god 's sake , anything , anything at all , and finally some elderly white business type had reluctantly surrendered his belt , and the elderly black chick looked up at him and spoke the words which became the headline of the new york daily news the next day , the words which made her an authentic american apple-pie heroine : `` thank you , bro . ''