Public Transportation

Clearly, between being productive and bloggin, I'll choose blogging - also, need to get in my technology fix before shabbat:

I love the snippets of conversation one overhears on public transportation, and imagining life-stories for my fellow passengers. I waited for the bus the other day with a well-dressed woman whose boot was slightly torn by the heel, and I kept on wondering if she was aware of the tear, if the heel would break while she was out, what kind of store she bought the boot in, and what she was feeling at the time.

This woman started talking on her cell, and I overheard her saying, "Once he's a liar, he's a liar - how do you know he's not lying now?", and immediately knew she was talking to her friend about her friend's boyfriend. As the conversation progressed, I found out that this friend's boyfriend was married, that they had recently told each other their first "I love you"s, and that they were in a fight and hadn't seen each other for a week - all during a ten minute bus wait!

That is what I love about public transportation - for a moment, we are each sharing each other's lives, partners in the goal of getting to where we need to get to, and in the process, we learn about each other, either through listening in on conversations, or through actual interactions.