A Blog-worthy series of events

On the day where I was thinking about writing a blog entry and wondering what I was gonna rant about, the actual trip from work to home ended up throwing a bunch of note-worthy events my way. For starters, as I was walking in the subway station near my work, a beggar asked me for some change. Faithful to my pre-established strategy on dealing with beggars, I offered to buy him a subway ticket. He seemed quite cheerful when I mentioned this, and I was convinced I had found yet another honest beggar. However, in true idiot-beggar fashion, the guy ruined it all: as I was waiting in line to buy him a ticket, he said "Would it be too much if I asked you for a buck or two for some coffee?" to which I responded "Yes. Yes it would be. And you know what else? You just lost your ticket." The rest of the conversation is irrelevant, but suffice it to say that changing your story on me is an automatic failure. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200$.

On the actual subway, I bumped into an old high school buddy of mine (Henri, for the reader whom I know as fact knows who Henri is). The wagon was jam packed, so we joked around a bit ("I feel VERY close to you right now!" "I could HUG you!") before catching up and letting each other know what we were up to.

Afterwards, as I was getting on the bus, I sat down and broke out my DS. I felt like beating the boss I was at in my Sonic Rush game. I hadn't even loaded my game yet when I noticed that the guy sitting right in front of me was plugging his earphones into his PSP. I found it quite comical to see two random strangers pulling off the exact same routine at the same time, right next to each other with two competing handhelds. I really felt like "letting him in on the joke", but I couldn't figure out a way to do so without looking totally geeky so I let it go.

I DID overhear the two friends sitting behind me talking about me as I was playing my DS. I just let them talk as if I couldn't hear them. I LOVE keeping my earphones on at all times like that. It lets me phase out of, or into any conversation at my leisure. It made for a pretty entertaining ride to be enjoying some digital entertainment while two strangers were saying things like "What's he playing?" "He's playing Sonic" "I dunno I want a PSP" (I don't think they noticed the guy in front of me) "Those games are too kiddy for me". I could talk for hours on the notion of kiddy games, but that is best saved for another rant. Maybe.