Three Things
Three completely ridiculous things happened to me today that are all worth sharing.
First, remember when I mentioned how I thought it would be fun to protest after I saw that high school kids were protesting for free standardized testing? Well, they are STILL protesting for the same shit except now it's escalated like a billion times and the whole city has gone insane. The kids are really well-organized and are marching around and yelling things but most are not doing much more than that. Unfortunately the police think we are still living in the 70s and have resorted to throwing tear gas and hosing the kids (and anyone who happens to be nearby) with cold ass water. This is mostly happening downtown where, it just so happens, I had to go teach this afternoon. Luckily I didn't have to run to avoid tear gas, hoses, and closed subway stations but I just barely made it out of the downtown area before chaos broke out. The city has been like this pretty much all week and I'm surprised the smell and contamination downtown didn't kill me today.
Second, after I narrowly escaped the madness this old man on the train started talking to me randomly (which those of you who know me know is an incredibly common occurence for me) and I did something I have always wanted to do: I kept my headphones on with my music playing and I pretended I could hear what he was saying by just smiling and nodding but I have NO CLUE what he was talking about. Then I felt kind of bad and took off the headphones and he was in the middle of some story about some thief who got beat up. That's as much as I could decipher. He asked me where I was going and what I do and then when my stop came up he actually asked me where it is I work so he could visit me. And i was like....uh....and then the doors closed. People are so weird.
Then, the last and most amazing thing was that after the old man incident I changed trains and on this new train there was this teenage couple making out. Not making out but like MAKING OUT. I swear these people were going at it so intensly she must have been chewing on his eyeball via his throat. So, we're all trying really hard not to look at them although they're standing basically in front of me and all of a sudden... biatch just faints. I mean, just boom! on the floor. (Sidebar: my aunt thinks she prob ran out of air from all the making out and well I do know that people can run out of air from laughing *cough*Karla*cough* so I think it's likely). Anyhoo, she woke up right away and then her boyfriend carried her out and it was all very romantic. or not. But, I got this great idea that they should have filmed the whole thing and then started a public service announcement to get people to stop making out on public transportation. Like, show the video and then say "This is what happens when you make out on public transportation! Get a room!" I bet it would work.
Any thoughts?
- E
First, remember when I mentioned how I thought it would be fun to protest after I saw that high school kids were protesting for free standardized testing? Well, they are STILL protesting for the same shit except now it's escalated like a billion times and the whole city has gone insane. The kids are really well-organized and are marching around and yelling things but most are not doing much more than that. Unfortunately the police think we are still living in the 70s and have resorted to throwing tear gas and hosing the kids (and anyone who happens to be nearby) with cold ass water. This is mostly happening downtown where, it just so happens, I had to go teach this afternoon. Luckily I didn't have to run to avoid tear gas, hoses, and closed subway stations but I just barely made it out of the downtown area before chaos broke out. The city has been like this pretty much all week and I'm surprised the smell and contamination downtown didn't kill me today.
Second, after I narrowly escaped the madness this old man on the train started talking to me randomly (which those of you who know me know is an incredibly common occurence for me) and I did something I have always wanted to do: I kept my headphones on with my music playing and I pretended I could hear what he was saying by just smiling and nodding but I have NO CLUE what he was talking about. Then I felt kind of bad and took off the headphones and he was in the middle of some story about some thief who got beat up. That's as much as I could decipher. He asked me where I was going and what I do and then when my stop came up he actually asked me where it is I work so he could visit me. And i was like....uh....and then the doors closed. People are so weird.
Then, the last and most amazing thing was that after the old man incident I changed trains and on this new train there was this teenage couple making out. Not making out but like MAKING OUT. I swear these people were going at it so intensly she must have been chewing on his eyeball via his throat. So, we're all trying really hard not to look at them although they're standing basically in front of me and all of a sudden... biatch just faints. I mean, just boom! on the floor. (Sidebar: my aunt thinks she prob ran out of air from all the making out and well I do know that people can run out of air from laughing *cough*Karla*cough* so I think it's likely). Anyhoo, she woke up right away and then her boyfriend carried her out and it was all very romantic. or not. But, I got this great idea that they should have filmed the whole thing and then started a public service announcement to get people to stop making out on public transportation. Like, show the video and then say "This is what happens when you make out on public transportation! Get a room!" I bet it would work.
Any thoughts?
- E
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