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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