Yesterday (Part VII)

Few things piss me off......One thing that does....seeing situations in which no one wants to be the bigger person. Kind of like the TV show "what would you do".

I'm leavin work at the bar the other day and I see some girls standing outside the corner store. 3 in total. All head scarfed up, lookin crazy. One girl is pregnant, pushing a stroller, and SMOKING A CIGARETTE!!! One of the other girls gave her a light. I'm almost went through the roof. 3 "seemingly" coherent females and not one could've have made the decision to tell her she shouldn't be smoking. I do believe birds of a feather travel together and at the end of the day we are across the street from the P's. Hence why I didn't get out the car and say anything myself. The toddler in the stroller prolly woulda pulled out on me after giving me the worse verbal thrashing of my life. And y'all know me, I'll fuck a kid up but I won't hit a pregnant woman. So in this case I wasn't the bigger person either....I measured the risk and it wasn't worth it!

On another note, on my way home, this elderly lady signaled that I should I get on the train before her when the doors opened. I have some manners so that def didn't go down. We ended up standing next to each other by the door and next thing you know I find myself in a decent yet unexpected convo with this 84 yr old woman. I had finished the book I was reading on the platform and had left my headphones at home (sutin I never do, but the night before was a disaster) so I had no distraction. *sign*

She told me about someone giving her wrong directions and getting lost. She told me that the train station stairs aren't her friend and that this past Saturday was too hot to do anything. She was coming from seeing her son in the hospital, he's in his sixty's and he told her to leave because the nurse asked him if she was his girlfriend as opposed to his mother....asshole! Did I mention that no one offered this lady a seat, NOT ONE. She was able bodied though. Then we started talking about how much the times have changed, and kids not knowing how to play and sending them to their room for punishment being the biggest crock of shit, and as I listened to this random banter I thought, I haven't had this good of a convo in ages. Honest pure convo. She was so pleasant and had a lovely sense of humor. People were looking at me, probably wondering what the hell we have in common, or why we were even talkin to each other. You know I didn't care.

My stop came and I was kinda sad it had to end. I wished her a good day and told her this Q train would def get her home. The seat right next to the door became available at my stop as well, she sat. I got off. And it was over, just like that. I know elderly ppl just like to have someone listen, but just when I thought the night before was a clear indication of how my week was gonna go......she was just what I needed, and I don't even know her name!