Lately, it seems like almost every morning that I commute from the north, something weird/bizarre/interesting. It could be luck, or the fact that it's a long commute (two busses and two trains), or perhaps it's an innate feature of the routes I travel.
Notable examples:
-My bus rear-ended a tiny compact car when it slipped in the snow. (Ugh. Get out and walk in the blizzard.)
-Crazy guy gets on train, muttering how building the subway is "an abomination on the face of God," (then why are you on it), touched me while getting in the seat (ewwww), making raspberry/plane engine noises, says he'll "hire Kill Bill to come kill everyone on the subway." Does he know Kill Bill is not a real person?
-Same day, different guy gets on bus drunk (one of several drunks at 9:30 AM) yelling things, including "chain gang." Huh. He gets off two stops later.
-Panhandling on the red line. Almost every day. Common things: CDs/DVDs, gloves, hair ties, stickers (huh?), blue squares...
-Today, woman dressed much more nicely than me walks into the car and says she "walks by faith alone" and is tired and cold and hungry. This kind of begging is common, but it's more unusual for someone to be wearing designer jeans and have an obviously expensive hair cut/dye job while asking for change. She mentions God about 10,000x. This is almost as unconvincing as the girl and puppy begging by the Damen blue line stop a few months ago: the puppy was wearing a leather coat.
It has been suggested that listening to an iPod is a good way to not notice these situations. However, in this part of town, showing that you have an iPod is a great way to get mugged.
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