In the "You never know what you'll see on the T" department: Today I offered the female half of an older couple my seat. Across from her was a girl in her twenties. Sitting next to the woman was an Asian man who was sleeping. His head kept falling side to side, coming to rest on the shoulders of the women sitting by him. Each woman did their best to get farther and farther away, the husband of the woman who took my seat getting slightly annoyed. After ten minutes of this, the girl and I looked at each other and started to laugh. The next thing I know, the Asian man's head falls backwards and he snaps awake, aparently having hurt himself slightly. After a quick self massage, he was back to bouncing off the women's shoulders, at one point completely resting his head on the woman to his left. "He must have had a rough night," I mouthed to the girl as we both snickered under our breath.
It happened that she and I got off at the same stop. As we left the train she said "I bet you're glad you didn't sit there."
"You never know what you'll see on the T," I replied. No sooner had I said this than the kid in front of her stepped out of his shoe (which flew backwards down the stairs), fell on his face, turned and bumped into her while taking his shoe from the person who caught it, and went stumbling up the steps, tripping over his extra long pants and his other untied shoe. "Your shoe lace, your shoe lace!" someone yelled. I looked at the girl, she looked at me and we both laughed.
You never know what you'll see on the T.
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