Tuesday, August 9, 2011

8/8/11: The Early Train

Managed to get out of the office at 4:30 today so I missed the majority of the crowd at Government Center.

I'm always amazed by the heat in the train station.  It hits you as soon as you walk in the door and, although there are fans by the track, the only thing they can do is blow the hot air around so everyone can share in the humidity.  The proverbial comparison to the furnace is not irrelevant here.

As I was getting on the train yesterday, I was standing next to a guy who looked just like Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite.  I almost asked him if he planned on running for office.  I'm just saying.

Are kids swearing more than usual these days or am I just getting old?  I had the privilege of sitting next to four girls yesterday and listened as they used swears as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.  Would it have been impolite for me to ask if they knew the past participle of these words?  And they say schools are failing our kids these days.  On the plus side, I did learn how far back one can pierce a tongue and that there is such a thing as finger piercing.



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