Watching The World Move

I think it should be mandatory that every one take public transportation twice a month. And I don't mean just a commuter train or a metro. But everyone should have to wait outside in the hot sun at a bus stop looking for a late bus driven by a bus driver who could care less how long you've been waiting or if you get to work on time.

I took the train from work, then a bus to a stop about ten minutes from my house. It's always humbling to sit next to a large woman with a stroller filled with groceries while holding a child that obviously looks more like the absent father than the mother. I appreciate my life when I see a woman with a lower mental capacity than the young boy she's holding by the hand. And I'm always reminded how good I've go it when the man next to me smells like three days of outdoor hard labor. His hand swollen from hammering or pushing or cutting or whatever chore that makes sitting at desk writing seem like cheating.