Best. Reaction. Ever.

me, to the bus driver: thanks.

Bus driver, to me: My Man!!! You know it!

made my day.

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Crosswords and Crayons

Today on the subway I was people watching, as I’m wont to do when I don’t have any reading material (which I didn’t). I was particularly interested in the homeless-looking man across the way from me. Not that I have a perverse interest in the actions of the homeless on trains or anything, but because I couldn’t quite figure him out.

By all appearances he looked homeless: long scraggly hair, a certain unwashed quality to both his skin and his clothes, bad shoes, etc. But a couple of things threw me off. 1) he was wearing a New York City Parks and Recreation Department jacket and 2) he was holding a New York Post (a rag, yes, but decidedly not free) and preparing to do the crossword puzzle - another seemingly non-homeless thing to do.

And as I sat there, silently debating whether the P&R Dept. has some interesting hiring processes or if this is just a new homeless man, he pulled out his writing utensil and got to work on the crossword.

It was a crayon.

Now I’m not sure if it’s just a crazy homeless man or the City is seriously cutting back on funding. Either way, it was my stop. And I left him to his puzzle.

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The Future

Will the nation state matter in the long term? Will large corporations eventually raise armies against each other and against governments? Or will global conglomerates fail to be replaced by more manageable small-mid sized businesses? Will there eventually be a global government that has some semblance of power (sorry, UN)?

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Man's Best Friend

Dogs are amazing pets. They’re fiercely loyal and they love you unconditionally. I mean truly unconditionally. All you have to do is not kill them and they never stop loving you. I guess you occasionally have to feed them and take them on walks and such and clean up their waste and such. But that’s a small price to pay for loyalty, love and companionship.

Euthanizing an old dog is really hard to do. They’ve been a part of your life for years. We had to put down one of our dogs this weekend and it’s like losing a member of the family.

Here’s hoping that doggy heaven exists and is full of leftover pizza, other delicious table food, squirrels to chase and things to play with. If you’re drinking anytime soon, raise a glass to Magic, one hell of a dog.

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Awkward Steps

Here’s the situation:

You arrive at a bank of elevators and see that a door is waiting open for you, so you walk towards it - turns out, though, that there are people in the elevator already.

Just as you walk pass through the threshold, the doors are closing. Except instead of closing, you’re in the way and the doors bounce back open. The people have obviously been waiting on the elevator long enough for the doors to close and start their long-waited ascent, and you’ve ruined it. To make matters worse, you reset the door clock and even more people come strolling into the elevator all smiley and happy because they were fortunate enough to not have to wait for an elevator today.

Now the original elevator folks start to glare more and more angrily at you while you can do nothing more than stand there sheepishly, silently apologizing that you didn’t know the doors would be closing as you walked through.

You ruined their elevator ride. And they’re glaring at you. If you’re fortunate enough, like I am, to have mirrored elevator doors, there’s nowhere to hide.

AWKWARD.

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