Last Friday my cube neighbor and I went for a walk to get something for lunch. Passing a man screaming out loud about nothing at all, I launched into a tirade about the crazy people in Boston. The day before, a woman had been standing on the train in front of a seated man who was sleeping. I'd seen this man once before, and that time he was laughing out loud for no reason, stopping periodically to glare at passengers. This wasn't a little "remember that funny joke" giggle, it was a full, all out hysterical, "I'm going to eat your children" type laugh. The kind of sound that made the woman sitting near him move her child further away.
So the lady is standing in front of this guy who I know is a psycho, and she must have accidentally bumped his foot. At this point he opened his eyes, lifted his head and screamed at her, "Move Over!"
And she did. Quickly.
He put his head back down and went back to sleep.
Nearing his stop, he awoke again, stretched and let out this ear splitting roar after yawning. If you weren't already convinced, the guy is a nut.
Back to Friday. I'm yelling about all the wackos and my cube neighbor says "Maybe they're just on the T", to which I reply "No way man, they're everywhere. Look around you, Boston is filled with crazy people". As I'm saying this, there's a woman walking towards us on his side of the sidewalk. No sooner do the words leave my mouth and the lady tips her head to the side, leans towards us and launches this huge snot rocket from her nose. We're talking stuff hanging and she's wiping at it. Cube Neighbor and I jump away, I laugh in her face, he wipes his coat trying to make sure nothing got on him, and she continues swatting at the gunk hanging from her face.
I laughed for the next ten minutes before I could get myself under control. You have to watch out; you never know what's going to happen on the streets of the big city.