"I love the rest of my life, though it is transitory, like a light azure morning glory." -TR. Yuzuru Miura
18 April 2011
People Are Surprising
Today whilst judging the world, I was pleasantly surprised not once - but twice on the CTA. The first was by a man reading Dumas on the el, and the second was two teens helping a blind man off the bus.
Not that I myself am surprised by this... I was more amused than anything. But...
you talking about seeing things in the world around us reminded me. I moved out of the city to this very quiet little English town.
It's little more than a village with 13th Century buildings and suchlike. Nothing ever happens and you see the same faces day in, day out. And most of those faces never leave the town in their lives.
There were two old ladies standing in the town talking when (SHOCK!) a police car drove past.
It's sirens were not blaring and the lights were not going. It was just a lone policeman driving past sedately in his patrol car.
The old lady remarked to the other:
"Here, look at this! The police are here now! It's getting like New York isn't it? It is, I tell you straight, it's getting like New York!"
Not that I myself am surprised by this... I was more amused than anything. But...
ReplyDeleteyou talking about seeing things in the world around us reminded me. I moved out of the city to this very quiet little English town.
It's little more than a village with 13th Century buildings and suchlike. Nothing ever happens and you see the same faces day in, day out. And most of those faces never leave the town in their lives.
There were two old ladies standing in the town talking when (SHOCK!) a police car drove past.
It's sirens were not blaring and the lights were not going. It was just a lone policeman driving past sedately in his patrol car.
The old lady remarked to the other:
"Here, look at this! The police are here now! It's getting like New York isn't it? It is, I tell you straight, it's getting like New York!"
That's wonderful! I'm in stitches.
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