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...passenger, had enticed some suburbanites into leaving their cars at home - a long day at the office. The train chugged desultorily through the darkness of Grand Central, then stalled; it didn't have the power to get up the hill and out of the terminal. The disembodied voice of Metro North announced that our train had to roll back down the incline into the station. We would have to de-train and switch to "new equipment...
...glimpse the lifestyles of the rich and everybody else, metro transit offers bus service to the Cape and ferry service to that inspiration of many limericks, Nantucket. Martha’s Vineyard and Elizabeth Islands can also be reached by ferry for quaint New England charm and wise overpricing...
Today the subject is Guy on Metro reading book about diamonds. Hypothesis one: he is getting engaged. Hypothesis two: he is a geology student. Hypothesis three: he thinks I am weird. He gets up and moves...
...Diamond Stud kidding? That’s all everyone on the Metro is doing—staring at everyone else and analyzing. But that’s all it is—mental doodling of sorts. That’s why there’s no conversation. Interacting with someone means they can affect you. We’d rather reduce each other to the fish tank. Alternatively, we can talk very loudly into our cell phones (this being the capital and Verizon a company with foresight, underground mobile gabbing has long been possible...
...think: Oops. As usual, the summer has slipped away, unraveled. The season is like a bad MTV video montage, composed mainly of Metro and cubicle shots. No shots of thesis writing, but that's not what this is about: this is about how summer drifts away...