Tag: commute

“…Tavern 29? – Great plan!..-Lead the way!..” –

I hear this from a group of women as I run down the street to the subway. I worked too late this Friday night and I’m already too late and I should have been almost home at this hour.

A woman comes out of a yoga studio into the cold air and says to someone (companion?phone? I haven’t time to look) – “should I go to Urban? But it’s so farrrrrr!”
I keep running.

I fly through the turnstile and hear – “there are extensive delays in both directions due to an unauthorized person on the track at 33rd street. Police has been dispatched and is on the way”.

I give up and run 3 blocks across to another line descend the too narrow stairs and hear behind me:
“I will just keep on dancing and pretend it didn’t happen… I must look like someone you really don’t like…”